Odd shaped speakers

Has anyone else read the latest article in Audio Xpress about cabinet vibration due to driver excitation ? VERY interesting article to say the least. You do have to read between the lines, but it does "debunk" a lot of what "tweakers" have always thought was "good" when building DIY speakers. Sean
>

Pbb, I was most certainly NOT talking aesthetics. Clearly, the notion of sparking "debate on 'industrial design' LOOKS [emphasis mine] vs. 'organic looks'" WOULD be inane. Ditto as to change for change's sake, "symbolism," vapid "marketing ploy[s]" and so on and so forth. Rather, I was talking about form from which hopefully may follow vastly improved function; the notion of breaking ranks with traditional/conventional boundaries, e.g., square/rectangular enclosures, exploiting current/breaking technology that will allow for the infinitely more complex calculations necessary to conceive speaker shapes vastly better suited to reproduce the natural/organic phenomenon that is music/sound.

I'm thinking of a full range folded horn design in the shape of the Edvard Munch "Scream" with a Lowther driver in the mouth and the the horn mouth emerging from the arse.

This should afford some technical challenges while addressing both audiophilogical and metaphysical issues.

Advance orders, anyone?

Good Bishop, have you any idea the difficulty with the crossover!?! I say run it closer to the arse than the mouth! And Lowther doesn't make a driver for the mouth!!!

Sincerely, I remain

Oh, I dunno. A one-tube active design--I can think of the perfect place for the tube--couple of inductors just below and behind the tube....what's the problem?

As I'm down here in Orlando, we can call it the Mouth of the South. Or, instead of Altec's Voice of the Theatre, we can have the Arse of the Theatre.

No remarks about splattery sound, though. Nor do I want to hear anything about audible flow turdulence....I mean turbulence.

I'll go now before the moderators get on my case.