Q: So, is this a new "reference" or "the best" loudspeaker contender, that makes listeners forget the fact they are listening to a reproduced sound?
A: Far from it. Current loudspeaker (or audio, for that matter) technology is far from live musical events, period.
Q: What is so special about these speakers?
A: Everything, listen to them with your ears and eyes wide open then compare them to the heavily overpriced boxed loudspeakers competition. True, 15" or 12" woofers in bass reflex enclosure can make a lot of noise, they can rock the foundations of your house, but as long as such loudspeaker systems use dome tweeters for the high frequency spectrum, this spectrum will be reproduced in an unnatural way - 7 square cm for the realistic reproduction of this spectrum? Right...
The dome tweeter (in whatever form) is the main obstacle to higher levels of music reproduction, period.
Q: Why are they so big?
A: All loudspeakers of this world are too small, including ours. I mean, we are trying to recreate the sound of live musical instruments and human voices as closely as possible and downsizing of the loudspeakers` dimensions and increasing the membrane excursions is a big step away from the higher fidelity. Musical instruments have huge "effective radiation areas" which barely move, even when played really loud and trying to mimic their sound by means of brutally squeezing the music signal through 1" dome tweeters and 5" woofers using extreme membrane excursions is simply a wrong approach.
Q: Can I place them close to the rear wall?
A: Of course you can do that if all you need is only a beautiful room decoration.
If, on the other hand, you would like great sounding speakers then be prepared to give them lots of space. At least 1, or better yet 2, meters away from the rear wall will do wonders for your musical enjoyment, but the same actually goes for all loudspeakers, boxed or dipole.
To be continued...
A: Far from it. Current loudspeaker (or audio, for that matter) technology is far from live musical events, period.
Q: What is so special about these speakers?
A: Everything, listen to them with your ears and eyes wide open then compare them to the heavily overpriced boxed loudspeakers competition. True, 15" or 12" woofers in bass reflex enclosure can make a lot of noise, they can rock the foundations of your house, but as long as such loudspeaker systems use dome tweeters for the high frequency spectrum, this spectrum will be reproduced in an unnatural way - 7 square cm for the realistic reproduction of this spectrum? Right...
The dome tweeter (in whatever form) is the main obstacle to higher levels of music reproduction, period.
Q: Why are they so big?
A: All loudspeakers of this world are too small, including ours. I mean, we are trying to recreate the sound of live musical instruments and human voices as closely as possible and downsizing of the loudspeakers` dimensions and increasing the membrane excursions is a big step away from the higher fidelity. Musical instruments have huge "effective radiation areas" which barely move, even when played really loud and trying to mimic their sound by means of brutally squeezing the music signal through 1" dome tweeters and 5" woofers using extreme membrane excursions is simply a wrong approach.
Q: Can I place them close to the rear wall?
A: Of course you can do that if all you need is only a beautiful room decoration.
If, on the other hand, you would like great sounding speakers then be prepared to give them lots of space. At least 1, or better yet 2, meters away from the rear wall will do wonders for your musical enjoyment, but the same actually goes for all loudspeakers, boxed or dipole.
To be continued...
