Speaking of loudspeaker drivers -- here's a good way to spend some time on a snowy day
mhardy6647
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Well-known hifi forum raconteur Tom Brennan* provided this link in response to a query about speaker driver diaphragm material choices on (ahem) another hifi audio forum.
This is a little (well -- medium-sized) white paper on the topic of loudspeaker design (relating mostly to driver characteristics and choices) by no less of a luminary than Lynn Olson (a fellow with some demonstrated facility in the discipline). It's interesting, I'd opine. It combines well-known "truths" with "gee, I didn't know that" insights (for me, at any rate). You
might find it a nice "one stop shopping" primer on the topic.
I enjoyed it, at any rate.
http://www.nutshellhifi.com/library/speaker-design2.html
All y'all stay warm & safe today!
Portrait of Mr. Olson from Positive Feedback magazine, 2005.
* 'twas Tom who introduced, at least to me, terms like "chinless direct radiator", "'little girl with guitar' music", and likened the acoustic intransigence of the Klipsch LaScala to the Sawzall.
This is a little (well -- medium-sized) white paper on the topic of loudspeaker design (relating mostly to driver characteristics and choices) by no less of a luminary than Lynn Olson (a fellow with some demonstrated facility in the discipline). It's interesting, I'd opine. It combines well-known "truths" with "gee, I didn't know that" insights (for me, at any rate). You
might find it a nice "one stop shopping" primer on the topic.I enjoyed it, at any rate.
http://www.nutshellhifi.com/library/speaker-design2.html
All y'all stay warm & safe today!
Portrait of Mr. Olson from Positive Feedback magazine, 2005.
* 'twas Tom who introduced, at least to me, terms like "chinless direct radiator", "'little girl with guitar' music", and likened the acoustic intransigence of the Klipsch LaScala to the Sawzall.
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PS -- he even name-checks (in an almost neutral way) the Peerless 1" silk dome tweeters much beloved by some of us Luddites.
(emphasis added)These tweeters, using silk domes with damping compounds, came into common use in the early Seventies with the introduction of the Peerless 1" soft-dome (remember the tweeters of the original Polk speakers?), followed by the superior Audax 1" tweeter, which found its way into many British and American designs during the 1970’s and early 1980’s...