Montreal Audio Show - anyone hear the FR30’s?

Does Apple's design team do free-lance work on the side?

@twoleftears 

lol. I immediately thought of that when I first saw them. It’s undeniable in white.  

Yes, PS audio have outsourced the design work.

I have been on the Montreal Show.

I think FR30 are good speakers. They can be a good competitors for Focal Utopia series and B&W 800 series. But these speakers are not my cup of tea.

I listen classical music and jazz I don’t listen to modern POP and EDM. So for me good high sensitive speakers with SET amplifier sound most natural and close to real acoustical instrument performance in terms of soundstage and instruments size as well as natural tone of instrument and a real musical performance.

I liked the Coherent Speakers / Allnic Audio T-1500 room. IMHO is was the best in this show. The 18 inch speaks sounded very dynamic with deep well defined bass. These speakers are really phenomenal. Unbelievable combination of high sensitivity and deep controlled bass, natural tone, transparency and texture.

New tech in speaker design…

 If you watch widely across YouTube, you can find Kenji at Kenrick’s Audio demonstrating  wire directionality and speaker diaphragm design as well as redesign of classic JBL. You can find diy guys designing open baffle designs with a variety of speakers and baffle shapes. The early work by Voxativ was ground breaking if not always dramatic improvements in cone construction and baffle design. There are some discussions by Chris who designed the FR30 discussing the design. And there are installation videos of their installations including full assembly positioning and tuning. 
Single driver designs have come a long way, cross over designs continue to develop.

Is anyone here contributing to speaker design? The Viking Acoustics L’Instrument speakers are in V3.0 now, use large handmade horns, resonator in the rear and David the designer is constantly innovating across his speaker range.

If you do the research then you will look at Aries Cerat, and many other designers across the globe. Devialet for example, of course they are segment or category specific in this case commercial.

Technology and skills continue to develop as do electronics and designs.