for my part I am highly sceptical
for some reasons Allison Himself didn't try it in His commercial designs -when the crossover point is set at 350 Hz one can hardly say that the midrange is floor coupled
actually Allison Four, Five and Six were all flooders <2 kHz (not floor coupled but flooders anyway - they projected the sound in such a way as to flood ie. illuminate the ceiling and the upper part of the listening room evenly)
so were later CD 6 and CD 7
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and also RDL-S1 and F-1
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very unclear, what did I mean?
well, let's try again - in other words - the reflected sound must be consistent with the direct sound in the time domain, the shape of the reflected wavefront must be essentially similar to the shape of the direct wavefront
it is not about faithfully reproducing square waves or about reproducing a single step response
I hope it is more clear now
how do you achieve that in real rooms? It would mean bare walls, hard and smooth, a receipe for sonic disaster!
But we do need high directivity in the range below 1kHz, IF we want to reproduce ITD cues in a small listening room.
All the speakers except omnis do that, so what's the difference ?
No ! Away such a heresy ! But using
in this case towards the ceiling.
- Elias
Good point, since any non-mirror like surfaces cause waveform difraction and phase coherence is lost (the working principle of a diffusor).
Maybe it is possible to have the few first reflections reflected from naked walls. Later reflections will be diffracted numerous times of course and their phase and waveform is ambiguous.
- Elias
BINGO !
I did some tests last night and it seems very promising concept !
Or possibly a cardioid instead of dipole, or an array to gain high directivity, or even a second order gradient radiator (seen only once of such a thing).
- Elias
I did actually tried that when I moved houses a year ago, pure concrete walls. It's a disaster really, I have now to add diffraction, so it does not work I am afraid. But yes, one could try to leave the front wall, and treat the side walls starting behind the listening position, back wall fully dead.
My first built Orions are showing signs of wood distress (used the wrong material), I need to have another go at them. I could recycle the old baffle divinding the tweeter section with two hinges on the side.. Mmmmm interesting!
My first built Orions are showing signs of wood distress (used the wrong material), I need to have another go at them. I could recycle the old baffle divinding the tweeter section with two hinges on the side.. Mmmmm interesting!
Am I to understand that You have scrapped the SSS project because of that?
Was it unable to reproduce the ITD cues?
"the shape of the reflected wavefront must be essentially similar to the shape of the direct wavefront"
certainly not all the speakers do that, very few multi-way actually, perhaps it's one of the reasons they generally suck
so - what are You going to do?
"must be essentially similar"
the critical frequency range is around 400<4000 Hz
how so? quite typical walls of a living room suffice:
Coefficient Chart
You mean no absorption in the room???? Then yes - it must be a disaster.
But this disaster it is a question of absorption coefficient of the room and its RT60, quite a separate question.
Unfortunately high directivity down low doesn't help with asymmetrical behavior of the room and asymmetrical setup.
This is what I did last night.
10" PA element in a small dipole close to floor slightly tilted upwards. 18sound XD125 horn at ear height tilted upwards about 20-30 degrees. Cross over 4th order LR at 1.5 kHz.
It sounds very promising ! When the tweeter is tilted upwards it gets harder to be localised as a sound source. Looks like the old wisdom of ceiling firing can be applied here too.
Good rule of thumb here: If you can see the diaphgram through the horn at the listening position, you have too much of direct sound.
Only had one of these so cannot say yet about the stereo performance.
- Elias
10" PA element in a small dipole close to floor slightly tilted upwards. 18sound XD125 horn at ear height tilted upwards about 20-30 degrees. Cross over 4th order LR at 1.5 kHz.
It sounds very promising ! When the tweeter is tilted upwards it gets harder to be localised as a sound source. Looks like the old wisdom of ceiling firing can be applied here too.
Good rule of thumb here: If you can see the diaphgram through the horn at the listening position, you have too much of direct sound.
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Only had one of these so cannot say yet about the stereo performance.
- Elias
is the directivity of the 10'' high enough to prevent the influence of the floor reflection in such a relatively upright position?
