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In Reply to: RE: Harbeth? posted by 68073 on May 13, 2015 at 09:58:30
Interesting points guys.
I think many of the fancy cabinets are not for style only. If you input design criteria to a computer program that designs cabinets, and it pumps out something wild and whacky I guess that's the cabinet you want to build.
Reminds me of an F1 car. They are not a simple box design, they have convoluted shapes for a reason.
To me, it just looks like the boxy speakers are intentionally missing a whole area of R&D.
Do the merits of lossy cabinets out weigh the benefits?
I think of the Audio note demo, where the speakers are intentionally up against the wall. It's obvious they know the speakers are bass-light, and need the wall for reinforcement. Could come in handy in a crowded living room I suppose.
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They don't need the corner for bass - they still have a tuned port of 29hz which is still considerable. Indeed, the AN J here in Hong Kong's AN dealership was playing the speakers away from corners and playing Noisia's "Split the Atom" to feel it in the chest bass levels and nowhere near as loud as they can go.
Back in 2001 the J's were pitted in a blind level matched session at Hi-Fi Choice. The speaker destroyed all the other standmounts (yup even the sexy looking it comes from a computer loudspeakers) - so bad was the drubbing that they pulled the J out and put it into their tests against floorstanders - and it STILL beat them in bass. Their testing room has no corners! The corner actually assists more with reducing the wide baffle effect to reduce colouration (but most North American walls are plaster which doesn't exactly fix the problem). This is why I feel they are better suited to concrete or brick walls than wood. But even at 70% they sound better than most at 100%
PS: Loudspeakers aren't asked to move at 160mph into corners or worry about wind hurting the gas mileage.
PS2: Corner reinforcement is a well established way to design loudspeakers.
PS3: Dragon Age Inquisition is a pretty good game.
Harbeth has their signature look and design around "issues" to maintain their look and sound, like audio note.It works for them and those that like them and they are also pricey .
Edits: 05/14/15 05/14/15
..these babies !
OK, those are the other extreme. Not sure how they sound, but they look like they are different just to be different.
Take a gander at a few more of these modern classics !
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