I can't resist tossing my 2 sense into the fray...*G*
Theory and the math behind remains the same; we measure them better and more precisely now...
Materials and means have improved; 'mass market' offerings have improved, but are subject to 'cost analysis' and ROI, yielding 'meh'. 'High end' has become a garden or a wasteland (depending on your POV) of what's selected and applied and how, yielding endless posts on 'X does what and how better than Y or Z' here @ AG and anywhere else you bide your time.
I'd rather waste my time DIY'ing my Walsh's. More bang for my buck, IMHO, since I'm faced with either vintage of unknown use/abuse, HHR, or German Physiks. And I can fix them myself. ;)
Anything really new? DML's...although I suspect if one digs long enough you'd find something somewhere that would (at least) allude to the concept. The "we set a loudspeaker face down on this suspended panel and it sounded funny" sort of thing. Nobody made any $ on it, so they walked away....*L* Now 'they' are exciting plywood, glass, and composites, tinkering with it. I'm intrigued...watching for now...
Vintage....hmm, I'm sitting on some '80's JBL 3 ways looking for a box to inhabit. Cabs were trashed by mindless geeks, reconed the woofers, ready for their 2nd life. A reconed EV 15" dying to be a New Age sub. A pair of horn/woofer Utah 2way wanting a home that looks 'cool' (I want the horn visible...so few people have actually heard a horn these days...
What boats my float of late is the 'what if' of combining an array of Walsh, DML, and a distributed bass (DEBRA, if you're inclined to find) and taking over the space with active EQ on all of it. Purpose build a 'puter to push it all around. See if imaging can be taken to another level...
*G* Y'all have your 'quests'. I have mine.
Theory and the math behind remains the same; we measure them better and more precisely now...
Materials and means have improved; 'mass market' offerings have improved, but are subject to 'cost analysis' and ROI, yielding 'meh'. 'High end' has become a garden or a wasteland (depending on your POV) of what's selected and applied and how, yielding endless posts on 'X does what and how better than Y or Z' here @ AG and anywhere else you bide your time.
I'd rather waste my time DIY'ing my Walsh's. More bang for my buck, IMHO, since I'm faced with either vintage of unknown use/abuse, HHR, or German Physiks. And I can fix them myself. ;)
Anything really new? DML's...although I suspect if one digs long enough you'd find something somewhere that would (at least) allude to the concept. The "we set a loudspeaker face down on this suspended panel and it sounded funny" sort of thing. Nobody made any $ on it, so they walked away....*L* Now 'they' are exciting plywood, glass, and composites, tinkering with it. I'm intrigued...watching for now...
Vintage....hmm, I'm sitting on some '80's JBL 3 ways looking for a box to inhabit. Cabs were trashed by mindless geeks, reconed the woofers, ready for their 2nd life. A reconed EV 15" dying to be a New Age sub. A pair of horn/woofer Utah 2way wanting a home that looks 'cool' (I want the horn visible...so few people have actually heard a horn these days...
What boats my float of late is the 'what if' of combining an array of Walsh, DML, and a distributed bass (DEBRA, if you're inclined to find) and taking over the space with active EQ on all of it. Purpose build a 'puter to push it all around. See if imaging can be taken to another level...
*G* Y'all have your 'quests'. I have mine.