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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers
Post Subject: AgreedPosted by Winnie on: 12/2/2007
 Romy the Cat wrote:
From the above-linked 6moons’ site:  Publisher's comment:

Layered Sound as demonstrated at Marja & Henk's during my short visit consisted of running their Avantgarde Duos and the Model Ones simultaneously, the former inside at dominant volume, the latter outside as fill-in ambience providers. Varying the relative volumes of course shifted the percentages of point-source and omni-polar, direct and reflected sound. Muting the panels completely collapsed the sound by comparison to having them fill it in. The sound was unquestionably superior with the added panels. It made traditional two-speaker stereo obsolete by comparison.


I would agree with this sentiments – from what I know now and from what I experimented I would hardly found straight two-speaker stereo as interesting enough. From where I am staying Injection is not debatable. What dubious is - the methods of Injections. The large panels of Layered Sound has own advantaged and own disadvantages. I was considering in past to use another Red injection channel (driven form the same amp) and located at floor to contra-balance vertical image shift in my case. In case is listening is done not in extreme nearfield it would not be necessary.

From surface it looks like an Injection is just a forced substitute for our disability to have regular channels/drivers with right TTH characteristics (Tone, Transient, and Harmonics) where all necessary Injection benefits are included. However, recently I began to look at the things differently as I feel a need to moderate BETWEEN the elements of TTH as there are numerous external condition. Sure it would be great to have that ability to do it in the SAME driver but I do not know how it might be done properly. I can envision a Black Box through which a driver is connected with 3 knobs: Tone, Transient, and Harmonics. All that is necessary to figure out is how that Black Box will be working… :-)

The caT


Cat, I think we are on a similar quest, though perhaps by slightly different means.

I should pick up my Podium Sound .5s tomorrow. My horns are 'point source' and the .5s are omni-directional. Both give excellent sound in their own right, but very different (front seat vs back seat in the theatre).

I would not blend the sound of my horns with just any cheap and cheerful distorting panel, and I know SQ of the .5s is up to the task. For me the key is not in adding measured amounts of distortion (though inevitably there will be some) but in the blending of point source and omni directional sound.
BTW I am not afraid of distortion - the perfect SS amp sounded crap and SET amps are magic, go figure. 

Out of interest Podium Sound seem to have plans to market smaller panels - the 0.25 is the start, though no dimensions are available at present.

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