@inna Tell me your speakers and I'll tell you who you are

"the Bozak dude is big, muscular and digs big furniture...."
-tomic601

Ah! Ah!

I lean toward contemporary modern minimalistic style !!! Don't like when furnitures are too massive ... Of course, Tymps need big room ... With nice lighting they can look not too much intrusive ... I don't place them near the back wall, I like to let them breathe ( easily 4 to 6 feet away in a small 15' x 18' room ... )


" ... reno'd kitchen..."
-asvjerrey

... not completely done yet ...  ;:o)

@inna

... I don’t want stuffed speakers or excessively braced speakers, I want them to move and breath.

That’s a rare sentiment in audiophile circles on speaker enclosures, and one that I sympathize with. The obvious and typical answer to this stance often concerns how speakers aren’t meant to act like instruments themselves, but have to be transparent (i.e. rigid, highly damped, heavy) in how they’re build to more accurately give way to what’s embedded on the recording. That’s an understandable position, but one that in actuality tends to be less favorably implemented. One of the reasons for this seems to be not working with the invariable contribution of the enclosure that persists despite elaborate efforts into damping via rigid and heavy build, or as Alan Shaw of Harbeth puts it:

https://youtu.be/Ja9BJn0lMxI?t=1403

Mr. Shaw may not embrace working with enclosures as "instruments" as such, but he's highly aware of their contribution no matter what, and has a rare knack for knowing about the importance of timbre and the authentic reproduction of voices.  

And so, working with the sonic contribution of the cabinets not only tells you about the knowledge of this area, but also of an awareness more holistically into tuning the sound of the speakers. Excessively stuffing the speakers can also prove problematic as it tends to deaden the sound somewhat, leading some (although few) to even refrain from stuffing. It’s symptomatic of "audiophilia" in general, I find; damping, damping, damping - killing resonances and other misbehaviors to such a degree that it potentially leads to killing the overall life and energy of the sound and music.

I think, Alan of Harbeth is thinking in the same cardinal direction as Michael Green but doesn't go that far. Harbeths are liked by many.
Panel speakers with not much of a cabinet is one thing and box speakers is another. It is not either/or, in my mind, speakers are both transducers and instruments, or if you wish - co-instruments. Drivers are transducers. Biggest problem is the implementation of the concept, as I see it. Designing speakers is a very special art. 

So funny...
i always spell Volvo... Vulva...

noromance, *LOL*  Let's light up that 'OLED Ball' (Crystal?! *whew* 'How passe'....subject to scratches, poor imaging, *meh* response....).

ML's...ANY:  Just in for Xmas, the laser projectors that can give that 'Big Screen' a Light Show!  (Since it's transparent/translucent, it may as well 'do something'....).  And a marvelous way to instruct the cat what Not to do....

*Speakers with Obscure Names* (Typically drive 'some of us' to the GooglePlex just to reference WT* they are...):  Fond of 'Things of a Distinctive Nature' that outweigh grand pianos; require rewiring the home to 'substation' specs.  Live on large properties or near neighbors with 'hearing disabilities'....or graveyards...

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