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Danny Richie "fixes" the Linkwitz Arion loudspeaker

For some time now I have been directing those interested in loudspeaker design to Danny Richie’s GR Research Tech Talk Tuesday videos on YouTube. Here is his latest: an examination of the Linkwitz Arion loudspeaker. You may be asking yourself: if Siegfried Linkwitz is the genius he is touted to be, how is it Danny found the Orion to be lacking, and was able to find solutions for it’s failings? I’ll leave that to you to answer. In the meantime, after watching and listening to this video, you may want to watch all the Tech Talk Tuesday videos. They may just make you a more informed loudspeaker consumer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCA-eSPUkJA.









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clio09
3,372 posts
 
@bdp24 he most certainly was aware of room nodes, he just believed there was a better way of dealing with them than using bass traps.
oldhvymec
5,101 posts
 
I'm of the same opinion. If you don't make it everywhere, you don't have to control it everywhere.  Rule number 1. controlling the bass, is 90% of the answer, when it comes to distortion... in ALL 7 of the frequencies ranges I address. sub, bass, MB, Low mids, mids, highs and UHF.

They are addressed normally by room treatment, with the exception of 100hz and below.. Traps kill what you really don't need to be making, to begin with...

Regards
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bdp24 OP
10,225 posts
 

Good to hear @clio09. May I ask what that way is? One way to make bass more uniform throughout the room is by way of the DBA: Distributed Bass Array. But regardless, in rooms having dimensions shorter than the longest wavelength being produced, there are going to be standing waves, areas of high and low pressure. It is the room "ringing."

True, bass traps are very inefficient, but I got lucky and found a bunch of ASC Tube Traps for ten bucks apiece, including a pair of 16"!

oldhvymec
5,101 posts
 
Another thing, I’ve worked with a few sound engineers, quite a few. Of the 30 or so I’ve met on job sites, only one had any desire to build or have anything to so with speakers. WHY? There is no money in it. Every one of those engineers were working on sound walls, or how to move that noise, from that valley, to that forest. NOT SPEAKERS, or room designers, ZERO money in it..

SO WE as audio buffs, really don’t get the best when it comes to speaker design...Kinda bottom of the bucket if you want to know the truth.

I also like the guy that says he’s a speaker makers, at least to be able to carry a tune in a sing along, or pick up a pair of spoons, a wash board or something and PLAY... NOT grab the MIC and away we go... YUK!!! Anyone can be taught to have a trained ear.

But to have MOJO in a speaker when they are done.. RARE!!!
VERY rare...

regards
douglas_schroeder
3,281 posts
 
How can the LInkwitz be the perfect speaker, when the Vandersteen (time aligned) is, er... the Magnepan (panel) is, er... the (insert favorite value speaker here) is!   ;) 

It's very important for the audiophile to think they have found the perfect speaker.  
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