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Tech That Flopped!

Every few months someone releases technology that seems to be revolutionary, but goes nowhere a couple of years later. Some tech gets acceptance and even imitation. Some goes wildly successful.

Ideas that are a huge success:
  • Acoustic suspension
  • Bass Reflex
  • Soft dome tweeters
Some ideas, well, it's not so clear:
  • Perfectly time aligned speakers ilke Thiel/Vandersteen
  • ESL
  • Line Arrays
  • Plasma tweeters
  • Transmission line
What tech have you seen come and go, was it worthwhile?

Best,

E
erik_squires

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auxinput
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Well, it wasn't really new technology, but new implementation of existing technology.  Fully tube-based home theater surround processor:

Audio Design Associates (ADA) Olympus III.  Circa 1996-1998 timeframe. 

You can't really find reference of this anywhere anymore.  It was really the only tube-based processor that ever came out.

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