I agree with most of that but I would add that the long thin speaker exists, to some extent, for domestic harmony i.e. they don't look like great monoliths. You only have to look at what some manufacturers are producing to see that they are trying to make, some of, their products visually unobtrusive. Some even claim to sound better that way.Dr Bunsen Honeydew wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2017 11:26 am It is always good to rethink problems, apply a little lateral thought. Convention is the easy way, often convention is created by marketing so THEY (the slurpers) can make as much slurp as possible, and every time the hi-fi sheep fall for it. The current convention of multi smaller drivers and thin ported cabinets is about cost and profit, nothing else.
I remember hearing Sonab speakers back in the 1970s and thinking I would like a pair, I would still like some but they are long gone.