Because wood boxes that are well done are beautiful...Tannoy comes to mind....
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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@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* |
+1 @budjoe Olsen study used a miniscule 7/8" speaker. Mounting larger speakers would be more problematic and require proportionately much larger cabinets. Would be interesting to see some research on larger spherical speakers though.
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