How much Multi-Way is too much?

[eriksquires]

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.

 

[tonitonitoni]

this must be how speakers in hell look like

 

[LineArray]

whatabunchofcrap!

 

[AndrewT]

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.

 

[djn]

very cool looking in a Crack dazed kind of way

 

[eriksquires]

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

 

[xrk971]

And each is mounted on the end of a cylindrical baffle - the worst 10dB dip/peak diffraction possible.

 

[marsupialx]

Looks like if you grabbed one and twisted, they would all twist. Pointless, I know.

 

[eriksquires]

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

 

[eriksquires]

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

 

[SufferingArtist]

bet reviewers out there would love it, like this guy

https://www.youtube.com/user/ZeosReviews/videos

 

[cocoapuffs]

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?

 

[mt490]

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?

 

[Soldermizer]

Here's an example of a "no way!" speaker

...although I confess to owning 3 pair of "series I" and loving them!

Soldermizer, notorious Bose *****

 

[misuspita]

Not home hi-fi but still

 

[Fenalaar]

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

 

[eriksquires]

...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

 

[eriksquires]

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

 

[Cal Weldon]

the 3 identical midwoofers surrounding the tweeter?

I see 3 different drivers surrounding the tweeter, no?

 

[eriksquires]

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