Hello.
I'm new to this forum, but ahve been on the AVS Forum (www.avsforum.com) for about 3-4 yers now, with about 6000 posts there. I figure I've irritiated and ****ed off many people there - it's time to go to a place where the people are even more sensitive and contentious.
I was first electrocuted at about the age of 4 or so. My next big one, was a HV transformer for a tube TV..through the chest, right off the stepped up AC. Yow! My little 6 year old heart started again when I hit the wall on the other side of the room. Since then, I've been electrocuted more times than any human being can possibly remember. Hundreds,at a minimum. A while back I was hit by ~270DC, and I didn't even really notice.
-Been seriously working on and pursuing loudspeaker design of about 7 years now. We have many designs ready to go, when the finances are finally in place. For those of you who may know what this means:-- the speakers have a noise floor of 50-70 db. yes. No, I'm not an idiot. Yes, the number is real. That's why we have waited that long. We don't need every other company stealing our thunder- because we can't take commercial advantage of our own work.
-Work with a mechanical and acoustical noise control expert who does film (set) work, and is generally used as the 'cooler', the man who fixes things that no other experts can figure out. The kind of guy the acosutical firms keep in their back pockets, as the 'big stick' they pull out when all else fails. He also builds his own patented 'Tube trap' kinda devices, which are more effective than ASC devices, by about 30%, at a minimum, and go down to lower frequencies. He has actually built anaehoic chambers that ere effective to below 5 hz... but smaller than a small closet. ( for electron microscope work, mesurement devices, etc.) Now..... how do you think the speakers sound again? How do you think something like that is going to sound? It is going to sound unlike anything you have ever heard before in your life. We hear -and have to correct for- crossover phase disortion that is 50 db down in the mix!
-started working with a very high level driver designer recently, as I found a way (about three-four years ago) to kill almost all transient distortion in dyamic cone drivers. We'll see if it pans out...
-no real education (one lousy college degree) --- more like a total maverick. I belive in education, except it does not seem to work for me. I tend to learn faster than they can teach. In areas they don't consider or understand. I tend to be of the opinion that texbooks for physics are simply to tell you where people have decided reality lies, not where it is actually at.. and only tells the sad tale of where people stopped looking.
-been getting electrocuted by audio gear since I took that pursuit up at the age of 12-13. At the age of 15 I already knew you had to break in a cartridge suspension before the turntable really performed.
-everything I own is custom, one of a kind, prototype, or modified, etc.
- I also do proprietary work in video gear but my real passion is hard physics. Ie, Tesla, Bearden, Bedini, Keeley, etc., etc....
-figured out where Albert A went wrong in hs theories (at least that which have been published) and have been using that point of understanding in everything I do, ever since. Universal keys are fun. They fit in anywhere --No door remains locked. Some of that stuff is hard to keep focused in your mind, anway. It screws around with your sense of reality a bit too much. Figured out the temporal equivalence of LCR one day...for computational purposes, but managed to forget them! I'll have to try and remember....
I'm new to this forum, but ahve been on the AVS Forum (www.avsforum.com) for about 3-4 yers now, with about 6000 posts there. I figure I've irritiated and ****ed off many people there - it's time to go to a place where the people are even more sensitive and contentious.
I was first electrocuted at about the age of 4 or so. My next big one, was a HV transformer for a tube TV..through the chest, right off the stepped up AC. Yow! My little 6 year old heart started again when I hit the wall on the other side of the room. Since then, I've been electrocuted more times than any human being can possibly remember. Hundreds,at a minimum. A while back I was hit by ~270DC, and I didn't even really notice.
-Been seriously working on and pursuing loudspeaker design of about 7 years now. We have many designs ready to go, when the finances are finally in place. For those of you who may know what this means:-- the speakers have a noise floor of 50-70 db. yes. No, I'm not an idiot. Yes, the number is real. That's why we have waited that long. We don't need every other company stealing our thunder- because we can't take commercial advantage of our own work.
-Work with a mechanical and acoustical noise control expert who does film (set) work, and is generally used as the 'cooler', the man who fixes things that no other experts can figure out. The kind of guy the acosutical firms keep in their back pockets, as the 'big stick' they pull out when all else fails. He also builds his own patented 'Tube trap' kinda devices, which are more effective than ASC devices, by about 30%, at a minimum, and go down to lower frequencies. He has actually built anaehoic chambers that ere effective to below 5 hz... but smaller than a small closet. ( for electron microscope work, mesurement devices, etc.) Now..... how do you think the speakers sound again? How do you think something like that is going to sound? It is going to sound unlike anything you have ever heard before in your life. We hear -and have to correct for- crossover phase disortion that is 50 db down in the mix!
-started working with a very high level driver designer recently, as I found a way (about three-four years ago) to kill almost all transient distortion in dyamic cone drivers. We'll see if it pans out...
-no real education (one lousy college degree) --- more like a total maverick. I belive in education, except it does not seem to work for me. I tend to learn faster than they can teach. In areas they don't consider or understand. I tend to be of the opinion that texbooks for physics are simply to tell you where people have decided reality lies, not where it is actually at.. and only tells the sad tale of where people stopped looking.
-been getting electrocuted by audio gear since I took that pursuit up at the age of 12-13. At the age of 15 I already knew you had to break in a cartridge suspension before the turntable really performed.
-everything I own is custom, one of a kind, prototype, or modified, etc.
- I also do proprietary work in video gear but my real passion is hard physics. Ie, Tesla, Bearden, Bedini, Keeley, etc., etc....
-figured out where Albert A went wrong in hs theories (at least that which have been published) and have been using that point of understanding in everything I do, ever since. Universal keys are fun. They fit in anywhere --No door remains locked. Some of that stuff is hard to keep focused in your mind, anway. It screws around with your sense of reality a bit too much. Figured out the temporal equivalence of LCR one day...for computational purposes, but managed to forget them! I'll have to try and remember....
Hi Steve, welcome.
I laughed at your intro and was surprised it got through moderation, after mentioning electroshock therapy (don't try this at home folks <vbg>).
I liked this too - it's time to go to a place where the people are even more sensitive and contentious. Lots of good and interesting people here, but a high ratio of stick-up-the-butt types too.
Do you have some info on your speakers? Curious too see what you're doing.
Cheers
Brett
From the wilderness on the east coast of Australia
I laughed at your intro and was surprised it got through moderation, after mentioning electroshock therapy (don't try this at home folks <vbg>).
I liked this too - it's time to go to a place where the people are even more sensitive and contentious. Lots of good and interesting people here, but a high ratio of stick-up-the-butt types too.
Do you have some info on your speakers? Curious too see what you're doing.
Cheers
Brett
From the wilderness on the east coast of Australia
Oh. Ok. The name is Ken. Not Steve. Sorry.
The speakers, we hope to have them on the market in the year. approximately. My acoustical bud said when he delivered the anechoic chamers to (insert major industrial giant here), he locked the president in the chamber --and the bill inside with him. 🙂
The speakers, we hope to have them on the market in the year. approximately. My acoustical bud said when he delivered the anechoic chamers to (insert major industrial giant here), he locked the president in the chamber --and the bill inside with him. 🙂
Well, it's cold here in Canada! I hope to be able to visit our Australian distributors, but I want to save the visit until winter here.. like it is right now. Can't do it this year, but maybe next year. I like holidays that are write-offs.
Oh yes. to address your main question. Sorry, no info. Dynamic and sealed just about describes them. The bass output is freakish to say the least. Teh bloody speakers are so quiet they demand the best drivers that can be made, and even then, the technology is beyond that. We are looking at using only Skanning drivers, and a new type of driver mounting. We find the screw down basket approach to be abysmally bad.
Just saw a belles 350A ad on ebay and it reminded me:
Speaking of modded gear--- I use a heavily modified Belles 450 amplifier, with about 260-270kuf of capacitance in it. It kinda makes the lights go dim when I turn it on.
After I did all the mods, I called up Dave Belles, and told him all the nasty things I did to his children. I told him how well it performed afterwards. How well the amplifier(s) held up under the stresses. Zero failures in ten yers now. I had about a total of 4 phone calls with him on the subject. I gave him every single last detail of what I had done.
I wonder if Dave remembers these conversations, as it appears as if he has been doing them for a whle now with his new hot rodded 'Power Module' units! I told him the more expensive gear would sell well! so he finally went out and did it. Good for you Dave! I hope the new gear is as simple as the old belles 450. Can't say no to a 5-6 inch long signal and curcuit path!
Oh yes. to address your main question. Sorry, no info. Dynamic and sealed just about describes them. The bass output is freakish to say the least. Teh bloody speakers are so quiet they demand the best drivers that can be made, and even then, the technology is beyond that. We are looking at using only Skanning drivers, and a new type of driver mounting. We find the screw down basket approach to be abysmally bad.
Just saw a belles 350A ad on ebay and it reminded me:
Speaking of modded gear--- I use a heavily modified Belles 450 amplifier, with about 260-270kuf of capacitance in it. It kinda makes the lights go dim when I turn it on.
After I did all the mods, I called up Dave Belles, and told him all the nasty things I did to his children. I told him how well it performed afterwards. How well the amplifier(s) held up under the stresses. Zero failures in ten yers now. I had about a total of 4 phone calls with him on the subject. I gave him every single last detail of what I had done.
I wonder if Dave remembers these conversations, as it appears as if he has been doing them for a whle now with his new hot rodded 'Power Module' units! I told him the more expensive gear would sell well! so he finally went out and did it. Good for you Dave! I hope the new gear is as simple as the old belles 450. Can't say no to a 5-6 inch long signal and curcuit path!
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