I also had a pair of Fried transmission-line speakers. Can't remember which model, but if I recall, they has some kind of cross-connectivity like Polk SDA. I could be wrong about that. I didn't have them for very long, and it was probably about 20 years ago.
Transmission line speakers!
Hi group,
I just pulled the trigger on a mint pair of Falcon speakers. They are a transmission line design. I don’t see many speakers using transmission line. Does anyone here have any experience pro or con with this type of design? BTW, I have always liked sealed type speakers over ported speakers!
Thanks much!
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Infinity made the claim, not me. Oh, I guess I did...but I was referring to the Infinity's claim. I know they aren't a true labyrinth design but they stuffed the cabinet with absorbent material and lowered the port resonance. Maybe it was just fancy sales writers but they made the claim.
One of my favorites, only to be replaced by my Reference Standard 2.5s which I kept for many years. |
INFINITY WTLC WAVE TRANSMISSION LINE This is the only one that I could find. A wave transmission line. I would have to take the driver out and look. Simple as that. I don't see a fixed throat for the exit port. I guess the hole in the back is the port? They may use TL tech but in the stricter sense of a TL speaker design, not so much. It's like calling a QLS1 a Line source when the only one they ever produced was the IRS Beta V. Everything was not quite the same or a hybrid of some kind. As far as deep bass, TL make good bass, the problem is like any speaker that has bass in the same box as the monitor section, timing is the issue. With TL designs it's even worse.. One driver doing double duty.. the back wave is slower. As far as ports, I haven't used fixed ports in 40 years.. Passive Radiator, OB, or IB but fixed ports are Worthless.. Regards |
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