Final Destination System? With Pictures

[Poultrygeist]

Open baffle speakers don't sound like box speakers. They sound more spacious and unencumbered. Getting the midrange driver out of the box brings a seductive openness and clarity to the sound that makes voices and instruments sound "there". Dipoles need to be pulled out into the room so that you get all that great sound coming from the rear of the drivers which is lost in box speakers. The upside to pulling them out into your listening space is that they are intoxicating in nearfield. You don't have to worry about driver integration as you can get as close as you like and lose your self in the midrange yet they will also capable of room filling sound.

OB bass, which I thought not possible before building the H-frames, sounds natural and un-sub like. Unlike conventional subs OB bass is neighbor friendly and your wife won't be disturbed when she's reading a book in another room.

Another feature of this system is that it avoids all the evils of passive crossovers. Each of the drivers is directly connected to it's own amp and runs full range. You could say they are quad amped without the need for filters and bottlenecks in the signal path. The advantages of this multi-amplification approach ( per Pass Labs Owner's maunal ) is higher power, better use of power, higher damping factor, lower distortion, more control /flexibility, and the ability to tailor amps to individual drivers. The Emo/Dayton amps are actively crossed over at 80hz and seamlessly integrate the low frequency drivers with the high frequency drivers.

These OB speakers would be inexpensive to reproduce if not for the recent price increase of the Tang Band W8-1808 which is not up to $500 per pair. There are other less expensive drivers that work very well in this design. The cost advantage enjoyed by DIY vs commercially built speakers is said to be around 10 to 1. To achieve this level of performance from a commercially produced speaker would cost many thousands of dollars.

[frenchmon]

Open baffle speakers don't sound like box speakers. They sound more spacious and unencumbered. Getting the midrange driver out of the box brings a seductive openness and clarity to the sound that makes voices and instruments sound "there". Dipoles need to be pulled out into the room so that you get all that great sound coming from the rear of the drivers which is lost in box speakers. The upside to pulling them out into your listening space is that they are intoxicating in nearfield. You don't have to worry about driver integration as you can get as close as you like and lose your self in the midrange yet they will also capable of room filling sound.

OB bass, which I thought not possible before building the H-frames, sounds natural and un-sub like. Unlike conventional subs OB bass is neighbor friendly and your wife won't be disturbed when she's reading a book in another room.

Another feature of this system is that it avoids all the evils of passive crossovers. Each of the drivers is directly connected to it's own amp and runs full range. You could say they are quad amped without the need for filters and bottlenecks in the signal path. The advantages of this multi-amplification approach ( per Pass Labs Owner's maunal ) is higher power, better use of power, higher damping factor, lower distortion, more control /flexibility, and the ability to tailor amps to individual drivers. The Emo/Dayton amps are actively crossed over at 80hz and seamlessly integrate the low frequency drivers with the high frequency drivers.

These OB speakers would be inexpensive to reproduce if not for the recent price increase of the Tang Band W8-1808 which is not up to $500 per pair. There are other less expensive drivers that work very well in this design. The cost advantage enjoyed by DIY vs commercially built speakers is said to be around 10 to 1. To achieve this level of performance from a commercially produced speaker would cost many thousands of dollars.

Shoot man...my Cantons sound like that!

Nice looking set you have there. Thanks for the pic.