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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Bahnsen Horns + some free tools
Post Subject: 360 degree radiation patternsPosted by drdna on: 11/20/2007
The idea of 360 degree radiation of sound has great intuitive appeal to me since I feel the best recordings are done with two omnidirectional microphones.  The most precise reproduction of the musical event would seem to be: sounds enter microphone from all directions, then leave speakers from all directions.

Of course then there is the real world.  Compromises in design and all the implementation problems.  There was Ohm; mbl made a 360 degree electrodynamic speaker and there was another company that made a 360 degree horn guided tweeter and midrange with a traditional woofer -- I forget the name.  None of them ever really impressed me with a presentation of sound that was dramatically different or better than a traditional forward firing system.

And then there is this.  That when a recording is made, the sound of the room is recorded.  With a 360 degree radiation pattern, we superimpose the sound of that room on the listening room.  I suppose, we have to ask: WHY?  What specific limitations and restrictions of the forward firing horn schema are we overcoming with a 360 degree dispersion pattern?

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