MonoPulse

[traderbam]

I'm not a regular visitor to the loudspeaker section so I hope I'm not resurrecting something, but a friend of mine sent me this site and I thought is was unusually intelligently written and perhaps worthy of discussion. Check out the "The quest for realism" tab.
Brian
(I have no connection whatsoever with this company)
MonoPulse

[MaVo]

They time align their drivers. That should be part of every sophisticated design. I wonder why they make so much noise about that.

[DcibeL]

Part 2. Phase Change, is extracted from an erudite article in the prestigious Hi-Fi News, in July 2005, by their Technical Consultant, Keith Howard. It explains part of the problem, and why so many hi-fi loudspeaker manufacturers internally connect drive-units out of phase. In Keith Howard's words it "is a bad habit the audio industry should break". The fundamental correctness of the MonoPulse design means it does not have to connect drive-units out of phase.

What? Whether the drivers are connected out of phase or not depends on the order of the filter and driver location. Anyway, it should never be considered "a bad habit". As long as the phase is aligned in the end result, why should it matter if a driver is wired backwards or not? Sounds like marketing mumbo-jumbo to me.

Apart from that, I really don't think these speakers look good at all. Cloth covered speakers? Yuck.