Getting the speaker to this point has taken nearly a year from when Arnie Nudell and I started dreaming. We first imagined a line source like the IRSV they will someday replace. Then we imagined what kind of drivers would be in that line source and decided on Air Motion Transformers for the mids and tweets, servo woofers for everything else. As one group of engineers are working on designing those drivers to Arnie's specs another is imagining the housing for them, and still another the amplification, servo chain, DSP bass alignment. Will it all fit? Can we maintain the baffle width we need for proper dispersion? How will it be braced? Where will we place the heat sinks and once there will they provide the performance we need? And will the entire package be something people might want to put in their homes? Can mortal humans even move these beasts?
After all these considerations then, and only then, do we build a physical prototype to see how well we did and what changes will have to take place for them to measure the way we want. And then (and only then) do we go to the listening phase where everything we imagined is challenged and vetted. Does it do what we hoped?
Indeed, it's a strange and arduous process but once finished, there's hopefully a grand reward at the end when music comes forth in unhindered effortless beauty.
If not, we roll our sleeves up and start over.
Paper tigers
Getting the speaker to this point has taken nearly a year from when Arnie Nudell and I started dreaming. We first imagined a line source like the IRSV they will someday replace. Then we imagined what kind of drivers would be in that line source and decided on Air Motion Transformers for the mids and tweets, servo woofers for everything else. As one group of engineers are working on designing those drivers to Arnie's specs another is imagining the housing for them, and still another the amplification, servo chain, DSP bass alignment. Will it all fit? Can we maintain the baffle width we need for proper dispersion? How will it be braced? Where will we place the heat sinks and once there will they provide the performance we need? And will the entire package be something people might want to put in their homes? Can mortal humans even move these beasts?
After all these considerations then, and only then, do we build a physical prototype to see how well we did and what changes will have to take place for them to measure the way we want. And then (and only then) do we go to the listening phase where everything we imagined is challenged and vetted. Does it do what we hoped?
Indeed, it's a strange and arduous process but once finished, there's hopefully a grand reward at the end when music comes forth in unhindered effortless beauty.
If not, we roll our sleeves up and start over.
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