Unusual Speaker Designs

[MZKM]

Really curious how the Tektons and their tweeter arrays end up measuring..

Pretty good horizontal performance but shit vertical performance.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/tekton-design-impact-monitor-loudspeaker-measurements

 

[mhardy6647]

Pretty good horizontal performance but s*** vertical performance.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/tekton-design-impact-monitor-loudspeaker-measurements

That's not necessarily a bad thing in the real world for loading a typical room.

 

[Vincent Kars]

What about a speaker without any moving part....
Just ionic wind...
http://www.electrostatics.org/images/esa_2008_a2.pdf

 

[thewas]

That's not necessarily a bad thing in the real world for loading a typical room.

High vertical directivity can really be a good thing in such a situation but above vertical directivity is just messy.

 

[DonH56]

I built a fan with no moving parts that won the MS State Science Fair when I was in 7th grade. Still have a write-up in the local paper somewhere -- they butchered the technical description, natch. Later I thought of modulating it to create a speaker but never went there -- life took a turn about that time. The drawback was it was also an ozone generator...

 

[mhardy6647]

High vertical directivity can really be a good thing in such a situation but above vertical directivity is just messy.

Yeah -- I'm not defendin' messy.

 

[HammerSandwich]

Pretty good horizontal performance but shit vertical performance.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/tekton-design-impact-monitor-loudspeaker-measurements

And that's the minimal implementation of a pseudo-coaxial MTM. The towers in post 15 use a single tweeter with wide spacing to the mid arrays, so they probably exhibit much more lobing. That said, Tekton might wire the towers differently, so they arrays aren't coaxial.

Regardless, I (having heard none of them...) prefer Dave Smith's Snell XA & the Horbach-Keele designs.

 

[andymok]

ECLIPSE

 

[Xulonn]

Bouquet, not "Boquete". Boquete is Spanish for hole.

LOL, Carlos. Corrected - and an opportunity to share another couple of anecdotes about life as an expatriate in Panama.

As you can see from my location (below my avatar), I live in Boquete, Panama, which is named for the "gap" (hole) in the mountain range (Cordillera de Talamanca) that is the "continental divide" here.

This post prompted me to write another expat in Panama story - but in the member forum [LINK] so I don't go too far off topic here.

 

[QMuse]

Now -- exactly what are they sellin' with that ad above?

I'd say they are selling red dress on that fine lady.

 

[Wes]

What about a speaker without any moving part....
Just ionic wind...
http://www.electrostatics.org/images/esa_2008_a2.pdf

Corinthian breeze speakers give a more lush sound

 

[mhardy6647]

Corinthian breeze speakers give a more lush sound

Trying to come up with a good bad Doric Zephyr pun now...

 

[peanuts]

not particularly unsual technically but interesting nontheless.

cabasse la sphere

 

[direstraitsfan98]

https://www.paradigm.com/en/outdoor-subwoofers/garden-oasis-go12sw

 

[Rick Sykora]

My regrets to the late Siegfried Linkwitz, but the LX521 has to qualify here...

https://www.linkwitzlab.com/images/photos/L1000603-c.jpg

He fine-tuned the upper baffle empirically and he defended it as absolutely required. My (otherwise tolerant) wife was not alone in her objection to keep it out of our house .

 

[Rick Sykora]

However, she did allow Keele's CBT24s...

 

[FrantzM]

My regrets to the late Dr. Linkwitz, but the LX521 has to qualify here...

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https://www.linkwitzlab.com/images/photos/L1000603-c.jpg

He fine-tuned the upper baffle empirically and he defended it as absolutely required. My (otherwise tolerant) wife was not alone in her objection to keep it out of our house .

The Linkwitz Pluto

and LX Mini

S.L. knew a lot about speakers. I repsect his designs .. Haven't heard these but am tempted to build the LX Mii and perhaps the LX 521.4 ... very much...

 

[tuga]

Horns by hORNS. The first speakers is called Mummy...

 

[tuga]

The Fat Lady, by Morel. Resonant carbon fiber body, no damping.

 

[Dialectic]

Horns by hORNS. The first speakers is called Mummy...

Heard the one on the left in Singapore. It sounded horrendous with the megabuck tube amp the dealer was using.