[rescue] Workers of the World, Unite!

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 06:26:19PM +0000, Kris Kirby wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > Well, I'm not an expert in sound reproduction, but IMHO, the best
> > results come from using a large speaker for a woofer, not from fancy
> > box techniques.  For awhile, the best indoors subwoofer (never done a
> > car one) I had was made from a 14" speaker taken from a peavey
> > monitor.  It just took the audio straight from the amp with no fancy
> > electronics.
> 
> Hehehe... Go look at folded horns. Some of the most serious low-end
> reproduction units use folded horns to get around the inadequacies of
> subwoofers. You can make an extended pipe and hide that behind the woofer
> to give it more depth and resonation space.
> 
> This is how Bose's clock radio does so well; it's one big folded horn.

I wasn't thrilled with the Bose wave radios.  They just sounded
pretentious to me.  Yeah, I know, how's that for subjective analysis.
But, it just seemed to promise good sound at first listen, but deeper
listening didn't deliver.

I'm generally suspicious of designs that lean heavily on horns despite
their long and venerable history.  Especially folded horns. 

But, whatever sounds good.  I still want to try a set of ESLs
sometime.  I like the idea of them.

The best sound I've heard so far (other than live) was from a set of
infinities.  They had dual drivers, a tweater, and a ribbon in each
speaker.  They were very impressive.  They were powered by a tube
power amp of some sort, with the audio coming off of a very high end
Sony CD player[1].  The high end clarity of the sound was good.  Maybe
I'd have hated them if I'd spent more than 3 minutes with them though.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd