Interesting speaker that uses SB Acoustic drivers and Hypex DSP amps: https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/noblenoble/
the speaker looks fairly interesting, but the review itself is difficult to read; random photos of other speakers interspersed with ads, rambling narrative that follows the flow of their 'experience' with the review rather than a logical order flow of performance metrics, no measurements, grammatical structure that reads like it was run through google translate etc. And not a measurement to be found. I think I would have preferred the cutaway photos without any text at all!
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That’s a typical six moons arty farty review process though. You really need to read between the lines’ lines, If you get my drift.
Just have a few drinks a bit of THC and don’t read the review again; just let it wash over you and enjoy it.
Put it in your TV and let your autospeak program read it to you, whilst you look the pictures. 😛
Interesting that they wanted to isobaric mount the Woofers, slide in/out the Hypex plate amp amp.
industrial design and finishes look nice though.
Just have a few drinks a bit of THC and don’t read the review again; just let it wash over you and enjoy it.
Put it in your TV and let your autospeak program read it to you, whilst you look the pictures. 😛
Interesting that they wanted to isobaric mount the Woofers, slide in/out the Hypex plate amp amp.
industrial design and finishes look nice though.
20k EU for that? No.
Vented poles no longer vented? Great design choice.
Isobaric these days in a largish speaker? Yeah, nah.
WG terminates abruptly.
Vented poles no longer vented? Great design choice.
Isobaric these days in a largish speaker? Yeah, nah.
WG terminates abruptly.
20K?
Yeah nah.
We can do better Brett, for sure as DIYers.
Can we coordinate, manufacture, and sell it and still make a profit to pay the wages (self) the cleaner (self) the dishwasher (self) the electricity and AC, and have enough to leave our day jobs? (median AU salary is AU50K in 2022)
Man, tough gig.
Yeah nah.
We can do better Brett, for sure as DIYers.
Can we coordinate, manufacture, and sell it and still make a profit to pay the wages (self) the cleaner (self) the dishwasher (self) the electricity and AC, and have enough to leave our day jobs? (median AU salary is AU50K in 2022)
Man, tough gig.
I'm not making excuses, I'm saying that's the reality of this cottage industry of hi-fi. It's poorly funded IMHO. Even if you make an outstanding speaker that sets new records in it's size class, and sell it measly money, will the public buy enough for it for it to be sustainable eg. Google Nest Audio
My engineering friends from the 1990s in Westraya went to work in the mines or went to Tokyo or San Francisco to work in telcommunications/IT.
Even headphones and automative hifi gets more R&D funding (and talent attraction) probably a factor of 10: 1 to home hifi...
So who's left designing these speakers? People with solid physics/acoustics backgrounds?
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I'm well aware as I've sold some designs in the past, and have a friend that wants to make audio gear but point out the difficulties and the fact I can't deal with the BS side of it. I've had the opportunity to make audio gear at other times and I did the same as your sandgroper friends and stayed in telecoms or did other industrial engineering work.
From the article:
"Mental noise might still trigger in those allergic to loud marketing once they read impossible claims of "world's first resonance-free cabinet". Competitors like Rockport will quietly chuckle. To set itself apart and claim unique ground, any new product needs a story. So what if that story has been told many times before? Pretend that it hasn't and soldier on. Let the customer notice; or not."
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"Mental noise might still trigger in those allergic to loud marketing once they read impossible claims of "world's first resonance-free cabinet". Competitors like Rockport will quietly chuckle. To set itself apart and claim unique ground, any new product needs a story. So what if that story has been told many times before? Pretend that it hasn't and soldier on. Let the customer notice; or not."
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