Every now and then I find some extravagant use of drivers and I feel the need to share. I'm not talking about users with 4 way or 5 way systems, or line arrays at all. I mean makers who should have been arrested for not stopping when they should have. Take this beautiful, and yet so wrong example from a Japanese web site!
With all those sectional units he/she didn't even bother to time align them! Ugh! I want to break into their home and "fix" it. 🙂
I know some are wondering "Why isn't Erik posting a pic of the Beolab 90?" Well, I've decided I was just being a bully and that I need to encourage the nice people at B&O to seek professional help instead of mocking them at every opportunity. Also, I just ordered a trio of their ICEpower amps for my home theater, so it seems hypocritical somehow.
With all those sectional units he/she didn't even bother to time align them! Ugh! I want to break into their home and "fix" it. 🙂
I know some are wondering "Why isn't Erik posting a pic of the Beolab 90?" Well, I've decided I was just being a bully and that I need to encourage the nice people at B&O to seek professional help instead of mocking them at every opportunity. Also, I just ordered a trio of their ICEpower amps for my home theater, so it seems hypocritical somehow.
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Two octaves from each driver would requires a 5Way to cover the audio range.
On that basis of not asking any driver to cover less than 2octaves, then a 6Way is too much.
On that basis of not asking any driver to cover less than 2octaves, then a 6Way is too much.
very cool looking in a Crack dazed kind of way
I know, right? I like the plastic/wood thing he's got going on. It would go really well with my cheese boards. 🙂 Seriously!
Erik
And each is mounted on the end of a cylindrical baffle - the worst 10dB dip/peak diffraction possible.
Looks like if you grabbed one and twisted, they would all twist. Pointless, I know.😀
ooooh, now I MUST Build one! If I could make giant wooden gears, and make the current flow without worry of wires twisting.......
Maybe I could have it shake back and forth to the music?
Erik
And each is mounted on the end of a cylindrical baffle - the worst 10dB dip/peak diffraction possible.
That explains why he needs so many, to make sure to keep that out of the operating orange of the driver? 🙂
Hah. 🙂
Still, just imagine if we could buy our drivers like that and just drop them down on top of each other. Bam! 🙂
Best,
Erik
bet reviewers out there would love it, like this guy
https://www.youtube.com/user/ZeosReviews/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/ZeosReviews/videos
I can't read japanese but do you think the designer was going for a quasi-coaxial layout? Hence the 3 identical midwoofers surrounding the tweeter?
Some types of codecs work by regenerating fundamental tones, perhaps we could have a speaker like an organ that has many tuned wavelengths that together reproduced wideband sound? How fine would the subdivisions need to be?
Heh - that first one kinda reminds me of a section of a 1920s theatre organ. You know, the ones with (literally) all sorts of bells and whistles on them...
It wouldn't pass the "interior police" here 🙂
Johan-Kr
It wouldn't pass the "interior police" here 🙂
Johan-Kr
...although I confess to owning 3 pair of "series I" and loving them!
Soldermizer, notorious Bose *****
🙄
Not multi-way. 🙂 Technically enhanced full-range. 🙂 They're like squashed together line arrays. Or line-arrays that never fully hatched.
Best,
Erik
I can't read japanese but do you think the designer was going for a quasi-coaxial layout? Hence the 3 identical midwoofers surrounding the tweeter?
Maybe! I wonder if that would work. Like having a single tweeter in the middle of six woofers? might be interesting to look at if nothing else.
Best,
Erik
I see 3 different drivers surrounding the tweeter, no?the 3 identical midwoofers surrounding the tweeter?
I see 3 different drivers surrounding the tweeter, no?
See, that's what I was wondering too!
I wasn't sure if it was a trick of the light or not.
Best,
Erik
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