'New' approach to speaker design
- Thread starter banjoman
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I'm not convinced by ideas like this. They have no idea how room acoustics works. It is doomed to failure. Doomed I say.
We in the hi-fi world mainly use stereo recordings. Reproducing such requires a good part of the sound at the listening position to be direct from the speakers.
This idea is likely to produce a nondescript sound field.
We in the hi-fi world mainly use stereo recordings. Reproducing such requires a good part of the sound at the listening position to be direct from the speakers.
This idea is likely to produce a nondescript sound field.
This is totally different - not any technical mumbo jumbo but quite a simple concept to make best use of the room acoustics. However, execution may prove to be difficult and I am sure it will end up sounding great in some rooms and not so good in others - very much like many traditional speakers.
Still interesting to see some young kids trying it out
Tony L
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Corners have been wonderful places since 1946. Nothing new to see here; a ceiling corner is only an upside down floor corner. Horn loading a tiny little / cheap computer speaker is actually a great idea IMO, it makes a lot of sense.
Cereal Killer
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My folk bought a place back in 81 where a guy had built alost identical ceiling corner speakers like these for the kitchen. They did sound rather nice. He had a full on set amp and tannoy system in the living room.
The Voigt corner horn was based on using the corners/walls and arrived in 1934. Paul Voigt made it clear that co-opting the room in this way was key. As Paul Messenger wrote in 'stereophile' on hearing the Voigts; ''it makes you wonder if there has been any progress in audio in the last 80 years.'''
It is a long time since anything truly revolutionary arrived in audio. The one exception is digital streaming...and that is revolutionary.