looks like planar is going to be used a lot more...
http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#1u4S7...ewsandevents/pressreleases/new_flat_flexible/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#1u4S7...ewsandevents/pressreleases/new_flat_flexible/
Looks new to me. I have a feeling that the sound would be some "blurry" and literally "crisp". Looking forward to hear one of these drivers, but I do not expect them to have much bass. However, I do expect they will have a very good "understandable voice quality" - even if the distortion might be quite high.
Wonder how they work. Looks like small neo-disc magnets in a sandwich construction made by conductive sheets....
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I have actualy listened to these in an acustic chamber no less. Impresions were no bass and very low output level (they sounded not loud even in a room with super low background noise). I also think there was some high voltages involved as I was warned not to touch it due to electric shock hazzard and the guys developing it mentioned how they kept shocking themselves. In how it differs from traditional electrostatic drivers I think that it's just that the whole system is manufactured as a single laminate instead of having grids, diaphrams etc. I must have seen it in the summer of 07 so they may have improved it although I doubt it as they are selling it on size and suitbility for voice. Don't think this is of interest for HI-Fi.
Is anyone else sad to see that the history of the big beautiful loudspeaker enclosure seems to be coming to an end?
Even just the standard towers that i've seen over the years, seem to be going away. Everything is the stupid little Bose style cubes now.
Looking in all the wrong places I would guess. No serious hifi shop I have been in sells the Bose Lifestyle stuff..
If they exceeded my ancient memories of these babies - and I have little doubt - then it probably is sad.
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http://reviews.audioreview.com/blog/flexpeaker-the-flexable-paper-speaker/
This is very interesting, too. 500Hz~ 200kHz, maybe a good tweeter. I'd imagine a not-less-than door size fullrange one....
I can't figure out how it works. Maybe some form of piezo, or the likes.
This thing won in the Consumer Electronics category of <The Wall Street Journal 2009 Technology Innovation Awards>:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574399714096167656.html
This is very interesting, too. 500Hz~ 200kHz, maybe a good tweeter. I'd imagine a not-less-than door size fullrange one....
I can't figure out how it works. Maybe some form of piezo, or the likes.
This thing won in the Consumer Electronics category of <The Wall Street Journal 2009 Technology Innovation Awards>:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574399714096167656.html
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