When two woofers are positioned in front of each other, and fully blocking each other, how does the "front wave" emerge?
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They don't block each other but act as a single driver with two motors. One could build this speaker with one single driver but this would increase the closed volume.
So, how the sound comes out of the two kissing each other speakers?
Only from the back convex side of the cone.
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This runs the risk of becoming off-topic. The last page has all the keywords (isobaric, push-pull, bandpass enclosure) if you ask them to Google or ChatGPT, you can figure out how it works.
In short: when two woofers are connected together and wired correctly, when the magnet of the first pushes the cone to the right, the magnet of the second pulls its cone to the right as well (push-pull). The cones with air between them move almost as one unit, as one cone with two motors.
Further, each side is loaded on its own volume with a bass-reflex design. It's like two different bass reflexes from two different speakers tuned to two different frequencies, combined into one with no front radiation, only ports produce sound.
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If you are talking about the radiation pattern of the front of a cone driver being somehow inferior to the pattern coming from the back ("quality of sound??"), then
1) take it to another thread, this is OT
2) provide evidence from driver designers, CFD analysis, and so on. If it were uniformly better I'm sure the hundreds of speaker designers out there, including ones from companies that design their own drivers like Revel, B&W, Scansonic (Scanspeak), and many others would all be mounting their drivers "backwards" on cabinets. Please. I'm sure somewhere on the internet is a detailed discussion on this, but it's not here, although it could occur elsewhere on this site (see 1, again)
I couldn't decide whether to respond or not, as you mentioned it is off-topic. However, for point number two, I can direct you to German Physiks and Lincoln Walsh.
The OP states, Unreleased Speakers (Rumors and Prototypes):
So, the following video may be relevant to the topic. I don't have any links to the creator, though.
He has created the top cone as a clone of the German Physiks design, based on Lincoln Walsh's original idea, but has added his own twist by incorporating a larger/longer upturned cone to collect the front wave from the funnel-like down-firing cone. No boxes.
So, the following video may be relevant to the topic. I don't have any links to the creator, though.
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This seems seriously good but I am afraid also seriously expensive...Upcoming Gato Audio CLC, with 100% Purifi drivers :
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Yeah. Looks like 10" woofer with two corresponding PRs and 6.5" midrange. That's 1454€ per speaker in nominal driver retail cost alone, plus whatever the tweeter plus waveguide are, plus crossover and cabinet and stuff. If these are 5 k€ each, they'd almost qualify as a bargain. Could be more.
I counted higher at retail details. (Also add Purifi tweeters into account). You're right, tho, the rear 10" are confirmed to be passive. Anyway, they have to do significant margins.
My guess is that they will cost perhaps twice as more.
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If only it had an aluminum enclosure, one could say it would be a decent speaker.
Just kidding of course. One of the most interesting recent designs.
The first person to make extremely high performance speakers using a DSP crossover, DSP room correction, and having true full range for less than $5k a pair is going to make a mint. Unfortunately, these will be $25k a pair plus and they'll sell like 100 total pairs to studios.Upcoming Gato Audio CLC, with 100% Purifi drivers :
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Damn... Those look really great. I wonder how loud it gets at 30-40Hz?
How do they not have more information on their website? Good grief.
Best to reach out to Soundfield directly with questions. As to the website, yup, it is lacking. Soundfield is a one man show very busy supporting customer orders, as such the website definitely not at the top of the priority list. I am sure it will get a makeover someday.
I should mention, Soundfield working on a custom design for me, see below for latest status …
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Because AJ isn’t serious about detailing the speaker performance. He still has pictures up of a damaged model he sells. He claims a lot of things like you don’t need to treat the room at all, without any measurements to show this. Check out his past threads of snark. He was banned from here with good reason. Then there are his statements around expensive equipment being snake oil, yet here he is promoting his products alongside $750 cables.
One of the rudest I’ve met personally.
What a shame. Sorry to hear that.
