I use ceiling clouds in all of my spaces…..around 2 hours and less than $100 to construct. Here’s my home workspace cloud
Thanks everyone for the input. I find this speaker interesting since it's exactly what we talked about. I also saw the measurements and I think the problems there are caused by the tweeter line and the tweeter crossover circuit and not the dual line of regular drivers itself, since those drivers are only 55 millimeters wide (a bit more than 2 inches). I think I will build a prototype to test the dual line in real life. My view (still) is, that dual line configurations do work, but only up to a certain frequency, I think we all agree on that?
Looks nice, you know I have a line array almost from floor to ceiling but the flat concrete ceiling still manages to ruin the sound, so no matter what, somekind of cloud is always a great idea. I will also have to build something in that spot.
Because horizontal width is never wide enough to have any "array like", or longer vertical "line like" properties..
Many of you have seen this video of a system made by Ken Fritz:
Those speakers don't have the midranges side by side, but separated with a row of tweeters. He says it works if you are listening far enough. And probably you have to be at the center too. Hard to say how they actually sounded, it would have been interesting to hear those before he passed away, but I live on a different continent anyway.
What I later heard, all his stuff was sold at quite low prices forward to different people and the very specially modified house also probably went to a non audiophile.
I wonder who now owns those speakers, anyone here?
Those speakers don't have the midranges side by side, but separated with a row of tweeters. He says it works if you are listening far enough. And probably you have to be at the center too. Hard to say how they actually sounded, it would have been interesting to hear those before he passed away, but I live on a different continent anyway.
What I later heard, all his stuff was sold at quite low prices forward to different people and the very specially modified house also probably went to a non audiophile.
I wonder who now owns those speakers, anyone here?
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I have dipole line arrays built using BG NEO10 and NEO3 drivers. These crossover at about 1800Hz. They sound fabulous with no noticable shifts in tonal balance as you shift from left to right.
If you can, give it around 8” clearance from the ceiling…..tightens up the low end remarkably.
Today just for curiosity, I put both of my mid range line array speakers about the same distance to each other as Ken had his driver rows in each front speaker.
Turns out, it works great, I don't find anything wrong with the sound, but is as one can imagine, incredibly directive since the driver spacing is so wide. For example, having 3 people sitting in a sofa is a bit too wide for the narrow beam, but one listening chair is not.
In the video, he did have just one chair so I can say, it was mostly likely sounding very good to that position.
However, I don't know why his chair is so near, because here you can see, he is in fact not sitting in the beam of the left and right speakers. Only the center one. Maybe the chair was moved forward just for the sake of esthetics of the photoshoot.
Turns out, it works great, I don't find anything wrong with the sound, but is as one can imagine, incredibly directive since the driver spacing is so wide. For example, having 3 people sitting in a sofa is a bit too wide for the narrow beam, but one listening chair is not.
In the video, he did have just one chair so I can say, it was mostly likely sounding very good to that position.
However, I don't know why his chair is so near, because here you can see, he is in fact not sitting in the beam of the left and right speakers. Only the center one. Maybe the chair was moved forward just for the sake of esthetics of the photoshoot.