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The Gallo's skeletal structure is pretty original granted. I forgot to mention the MBL - Radialstrahler and of course the B&W Nautilus, these are truly groundbreaking but....
Sorry off-Axis drive units, dual concentric drivers and fero fluid cooled tweeters are not particularly new or exiting.
Driver materials, sizes and cone designs go around in circles tweaking what is essentially 1930's technology.
The same can be said for cabinet designs which if anything have got markedly worse in the last few decades due to cheaper composite materials.
I did not say Bose invented the bass reflex port either. What I said was most elements in speaker design are very old and what the vast majority of manufacturers do is recombine these elements and repackage them to suit contemporary interior design.
Bose took a few well tried and tested technologies in the shape of conventional compact mid drivers, folded lines and ported cabinets and COMBINED them in an original way into a compact array in their PA speakers and this methodology has more or less defined the way modern domestic speakers have been constructed in the last decade.
Originally Posted by VicAjax bass reflex ports were not, as far as i'm aware, a Bose innovation... as far as the bose direct/reflecting design, it has always been deeply flawed and the design hasn't changed since it was introduced nearly 40 years ago. driver materials and designs, magnets, crossovers, active amplification, cabinet construction all have gone through dramatic changes in the past decade and a half, and innovations and refinements continue to be made all the time... just not by bose. Gallo's Ref 3 speakers... KEF's UniQ drivers...VIFA tweeters... the innovations are various and many, and exclusive of bose. |
The Gallo's skeletal structure is pretty original granted. I forgot to mention the MBL - Radialstrahler and of course the B&W Nautilus, these are truly groundbreaking but....
Sorry off-Axis drive units, dual concentric drivers and fero fluid cooled tweeters are not particularly new or exiting.
Driver materials, sizes and cone designs go around in circles tweaking what is essentially 1930's technology.
The same can be said for cabinet designs which if anything have got markedly worse in the last few decades due to cheaper composite materials.
I did not say Bose invented the bass reflex port either. What I said was most elements in speaker design are very old and what the vast majority of manufacturers do is recombine these elements and repackage them to suit contemporary interior design.
Bose took a few well tried and tested technologies in the shape of conventional compact mid drivers, folded lines and ported cabinets and COMBINED them in an original way into a compact array in their PA speakers and this methodology has more or less defined the way modern domestic speakers have been constructed in the last decade.