I have heard single driver speakers that sounded great but no real bass. You need big speakers for solid bass and then the mids and highs get smeared, dopler distortion. For a while, early 70s, I had speaker boxes that if you stacked them were the size of a refrigerator. The driver was the Jensen tri-axials, not 3 drivers, 3 cones! 12" bass cone w/mid wizzer and a tweeter wizzer. You can still buy 12" drivers w/tweeter wizzer or a multi-cellular horn in the center, not high-fi, PA. 1950s technology. Even many panel speakers have a tweeter section w/x-over. Binaural works great but there arent many recordings, zero popular music(?) Maybe something but popular, not.
Headphones as Models for Speakers? Interesting Read from Herb Reichert - Opinions Please
I came across this article by Herb over the weekend and found it very interesting [https://www.audiostream.com/content/problem-loudspeakers ]. He argues for speakers that are/have...
As an architect by profession, the less is more argument resonates with me on many levels. I’ve also found this to be true for this strange hobby we all enjoy, recently experimenting with passive preamps; I have found them to be truly transparent and revealing. One less power supply polluting the signal, less over-redundant gain, etc.
Does anyone have opinions of the article? The only manufacture that I can find that actively markets a simple crossover-less design is ZU Audio, and from what I have seen people have mixed reviews of their speakers. Are there any speakers that come to mind that are already using this methodology for design?
From my understanding the truly difficult part of what Herb is arguing for are
"... full-range, crossover-less, benign impedance, high sensitivity, and direct connective-ness, [and] that headphones ... should – and could – be a model for floor-standing audiophile speakers."
As an architect by profession, the less is more argument resonates with me on many levels. I’ve also found this to be true for this strange hobby we all enjoy, recently experimenting with passive preamps; I have found them to be truly transparent and revealing. One less power supply polluting the signal, less over-redundant gain, etc.
Does anyone have opinions of the article? The only manufacture that I can find that actively markets a simple crossover-less design is ZU Audio, and from what I have seen people have mixed reviews of their speakers. Are there any speakers that come to mind that are already using this methodology for design?
From my understanding the truly difficult part of what Herb is arguing for are
"...full-range transducers with high ruler-flat impedances".Is this outside of our physical capabilities as the driver scales up from headphones to loudspeakers? Any thoughts would be appreciated, there are a lot of folks out there with a lot more knowledge than I have.