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- bob1029, on 11/18/2008, -0/+9As an audiophile and home theater enthusiast I am mildly pissed that some "artists" though that speakers would be a great thing to bastardize with abstract shenanigans. All that money and you are getting the sound quality of a can falling down a staircase. Save a few grand and get some decent reference series from any of the major speaker manufacturers.
Whats next, fancy concept designs for toaster ovens? - SCHz, on 11/18/2008, -1/+6Sorry but they look really ugly.
- mmittimm, on 11/18/2008, -0/+5As somewhat of an audiophile, I must say none of these look like they have the potential to have good sound. I have no problem with bringing art to speaker design but only if you don't sacrifice sound quality, and I can't imagine any of these sounding very spectacular.
- spaceman84, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2Protip: All of these designs would sound like crap.
If you want innovative speaker design, look at Bang & Olufsen. They know how to design speakers that look AND sound excellent. - surferjoemaui, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2Can' beat this --
The Klipschorn, or Khorn, loudspeaker is the flagship product of Klipsch Audio Technologies. It was patented by founder Paul W. Klipsch in 1946, and has been in continuous production in the company's Hope, Arkansas, plant since then—-the longest run in speaker production history. Although the Klipschorn's basic design is more than sixty years old, it has received periodic minor modifications.
The Klipschorn's large (51” H (129 cm) x 31” W (79 cm) x 28” D (72 cm)) enclosure houses a three-way design: separate drivers—the woofer, the squawker, and the tweeter, respectively—handle the bass, midrange, and treble portions of the musical signal.
Two rectangular horn lenses coupled to compression drivers handle the midrange and treble, while a 15” cone woofer is mounted in a folded bass bin compartment below. The folds open at the rear of the horn cabinet structure, utilizing the room walls and floor as continuations of horn structure, thereby increasing the effective length and size of the horn and affording greater bass extension.
The body of the speaker cabinet forms a horn, an acoustic transformer/amplifier. The “Khorn” shape is like a baseball diamond: the pointy rear is open and exposed, the flat front covered with a wood panel and the top enclosed in cloth. The speaker sits in the corner of two adjoining walls, using the walls and floor boundaries as extensions of the horn. Technically speaking, the Khorn's folded bass "corner horn" can be described as a bifurcated trihedral (floor and two walls to form the trihedral corner) exponential wave transmission line.
This design results in extremely high sensitivity. One watt RMS produces a 105 decibel per meter sound pressure level (SPL), which is approximately 14-20 decibels higher than conventional speakers. Such sensitivity requires less amplifier power to achieve the same loudness. (Paul Klipsch demonstrated that the Klipschorn could reproduce concert-level dynamics powered by as little as 1 watt per channel.) The Khorn encourages the use of low powered amplifiers. The growing popularity in the audiophile community of single-ended valve (vacuum tube) amplifiers has sparked renewed interest in the Klipschorn and other highly sensitive Klipsch models.[citation needed]
Utilizing the room walls and floor boundaries as extensions of the bass horn helps extend the speaker's frequency response down into the 35 Hz range, considerably lower than would be possible otherwise. Because of the folded horn, the woofer cone moves no more than a few millimeters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klipschorn#The_Klipsc ... - GawtMilk, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2"Where do I put the bread?"
"Oh. *****." - jhop, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2What a hideous description.
- paulclough, on 02/11/2009, -0/+1http://www.phpuke.org
As somewhat of an audiophile, I must say none of these look like they have the potential to have good sound. I have no problem with bringing art to speaker design but only if you don't sacrifice sound quality, and I can't imagine any of these sounding very spectacular. - atingle, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1Error duly corrected – thanks for bringing it to my attention.
- madebymakers, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1Hi - actually I've taken part in the process behind these speaker designs. I appreciate the comments and fully understand why the audiophiles react against some (or all ;) ) of the ideas. These ideas are, however, not meant as 'solutions for great acoustics' but instead they represent very initial work in a design process. I.e. this is the kind of work we would typically present to our clients (if the design brief makes it necessary and is very open) in an initial phase. First and foremost to trigger discussions about direction and conceptual strategies. Also this may be the reason the designs can be perceived as 'ugly' (thanks SCHz for that one..) - the 'designs' have not been through a full process of aesthetic and technical specification and refinement...
But I hope that at least some of the ideas will serve as inspiration - just like we draw inspiration from several sources :) - arhoo, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1It's damping not dampening. they look real nice though. who knows what they sound like though.
- tnerd, on 11/17/2008, -3/+4ha ha.. I wish I could tell you which one is my favourite.. all of them are really nice... this one makes it to my favourites...!
- mdez, on 11/18/2008, -0/+0Hi spaceman84 - I think it depends highly on the construction of each concept :) - also many people can't afford B&O speakers or they don't 'invest' in very expensive systems as they may want to change speakers more often than once every 20 years (B&O - also Danish - are renowned for long lasting products and I respect that very much). The other day I went to listen to Scandynas pod-speakers and also B&Ws CM1 which have similar price-tag. But there's no discussion the traditional looking B&W speakers were MUCH better than the pod-speakers, but still the podspeakers are very popular owing to their aesthetics.
Ok - still, there may be some problems making great speakers from a glass jar... - theadvinci, on 11/18/2008, -1/+1Speaker in a jar. Nice.
- neckofjelly, on 11/18/2008, -2/+2I love the Tony Robbins ones.
- madebymakers, on 11/19/2008, -0/+0Like it or not ... actually the 6 ideas are excerpts from from an idea set of 20 ideas. You may want to check out the rest of the ideas following the link at to bottom of the TFTS post :)
- jaygeeze, on 11/24/2008, -0/+0The Wall Sticker Speaker is the one that suits my personality the most, clean, simple, functional, and way too cool!
- ienjoythebeach, on 11/18/2008, -2/+1fail.digg
- enkideridu, on 05/15/2009, -2/+1nice designs
do the audi designs remind anyone else of toilette seats though? - thedinomeister, on 11/18/2008, -4/+1INDUSTRIAL DESIGN!!!!!!!
(i want to see the concept sketches that inspired these 3D renders)
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