I don't know exactly what will happen until I have tried it and ironed out any wrinkles as best I can with the limited knowledge J possess. All I know is that spherical tweeter pods with no face plates are amazing and I want more of it I currently have the spherical pods up and running but tweeters held in with gaffa tape and rested on a crude ring of cardboard on top of my cubes mid bass cabs.CycleCoach wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 9:07 am I love the idea of a "theoretical speaker suspended in infinite space" but I suspect its behaviour would bear little practical relation to a real speaker in an actual room, where everything in that room plays a part in complicating the scenario.
I think your speakers will work because they will interfere less with the room once they've done their part in energising it.
What do you think?
Anyway, great work Stu! I'm enjoying your experiments immensely.
The sound is addictive to the point that I really can't drag myself away or get anymore speaker building done. I truly have never heard anything like it. I don't want to sound like a flowery language newspeak reviewer or come across as overly enthusiastic but it's hard not to convey how much I fecking love the effect it has had.
It produces the most relaxed and easy to listen to music I have ever heard. Others who have done it before have all described the presentation and it is easy to read something like that and think "yeah whatever". But there is such a sense of calm and feeling like being amongst the musicians. All the dynamics, detail and texture is still there but at the same time it sounds quieter and that is impossible because I don't have a volume control. Doc used to say the perception of loud was actually distortion and that loud doesn't sound loud if it's clean and you turn to talk to somebody and find you have to shout. It's the most relaxing, emotional and involving experience I have ever had when listening to reproduced music, and there is still more to do.
As far as taking the room away goes, well you can't. It will always be there unless you listen outside. There are several ways people go off in when it comes to the room. If you are lucky to have a big one then you can have the speakers and listening position(s) well away from walls. That doesn't work for speakers with no baffle step compensation though (no bass). Buy or make some highly directional speakers like the ultimate point and squirt which uses a fireman's hose. Or you can throw money at the problem and install ugly and domestically unacceptable room treatments. Or you can follow all the other sheep who want the easy way out and buy a dsp unit which magically sorts it out for you AT ONE LISTENING POSITION ONLY, involves extra circuitry, anologue to digital lies conversion and throws some of the music away for good measure.
Or you can do it like we try to do and use the room for better or for worse.
As I don't measure things then all I can go on is how it sounds, if I like it and try to tie that in with something I have read or other people's comments who have tried it. So far my findings correlate very well with what others have said as regards spherical enclosures.
It is my view that run of the mill enclosures of the usual shape and dimensions are clearly inferior and not just by a little bit. All my speakers will be spherical from now on. Once I had tasted the effect then nothing else will suffice.