@csmgolf , not likely...but it's like watching a tennis match played with golf balls instead of the fuzzy ones.... ;)
Fast. Loose. Not totally predictable, but draws a crowd.... 😏
Why are there so many wooden box speakers out there?
I understand that wood is cheap and a box is easier to make than a sphere but when the speaker companies charge tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for their speakers, shouldnt consumers expect more than just a typical box? Are consumers being duped?
Back in the 70’s a speaker engineer found that a sphere was best for a speaker. A square box was the worst and a rectangular box was marginally better.
The speaker engineers have surely known about this research so why has it been ignored?
Cabasse is the only company doing spheres. Should wooden boxes be made illegal
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...late again to the party...*sigh* My diys' are sans wood.....foamed PVC surrounds, no box to speak of....cylinders, yes....with a foamed core. Two pairs hardly have a 'base shaft' cylinder at all....'acoustic suspension', a la the early ARs', rolled off to a sub. Not heavy, either... @dekay, liked the owls....*S* There's about 3 or 4 of them in the area at night 'round here, 'who?ing' about whatever they do it about.... Nice... |
Seriously for a moment, now.... Wood and its’ variants as a enclosure is all well and good. With the advent of CNC/CAD-CAM/3D printing (no longer in infancy, noooo), ’boxes’ can be ’put up on the shelf’ ( to pun badly ) and other designs can be explored... Wood, plastics, CF, glass....even the concrete’ mystique’ if one opts for that....’shotcrete’ a shape that compensates for resonance and vibration modalities... Infinity beconds....sound from sculpture? Why not? Make SAF go ’foom’....;) |
@rick2000...an interesting variant on 'playing a guitar', but....*shrug* On one hand, I've got one of those SAE parametric eqs' myself in the 'shop' system. An adjunct to the receivers' tone controls, allows to zero in on the details of which the devils create....*G* @fisher_400 , yeah, damn few injection enclosures pass muster...usually too light, too thin, too small with drivers to match... Not saying small isn't beautiful...nice bookshelf stuff out there but typically of a 'practical' size driven by a given frequency range... I'm sidestepping the whole enclosure issue basically, because I can. Not that a box of any design wouldn't work, I just rather not go there. Minimalist at heart, and generally stuck with smaller spaces. And the challenge of doing so beckons. *S* |