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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: The IDEAL horn system
Post Subject: The future of loudspeakers according to Lynn Olson.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 7/10/2007

From the Lynn Olson’s site:

http://www.nutshellhifi.com/

The introduction to the “The Art of Speaker Design”:

“If you relax and take a mental journey to the 22nd Century, it is easy to imagine the perfect loudspeaker. It would made of an immense number of tiny point sources that would create a true acoustic wavefront (or soundfield). Resonances due to massive drivers and cabinets would be a thing of the distant past. A host of distortions (harmonic, intermodulation, crossmodulation, frequency, phase, and group delay) would be utterly absent ... the sound would be literally as clear as air itself.

This perfect loudspeaker would be made of millions of microscopic coherent light and sound emitters, integrated with signal processing circuits all operating in parallel. (Similar in principle to present-day military phased-array radars, with tens of thousands of tiny antennas with individual electronics subsystems.)

It would be "grown" by nanotechnology and operate at the molecular level, appearing simply as a transparent film when not in operation. Let your imagination roam free ... this device also has access to all sounds and images ever recorded, and an instantaneous link to billions of similar devices. The primitive 20th Century technologies of telephones, movies, radio, television, hi-fi stereo, and the World Wide Web converge into an apparently simple technology that is transparent and invisible.”

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