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These are the most favorably reviewed speakers in the history of audio

Posted by Richard BassNut Greene on April 7, 2007 at 21:37:02

In Reply to: 9 hours with the Linkwitz Labs Orion loudspeaker system posted by kerr on April 7, 2007 at 20:23:51:

From the mid-1960's until 2007 I have never seen such favorable reviews for any speaker including kit speakers. That so many reviews are from DIY speaker-builders who usually nit-pick other people's speaker designs, and always think they can improve the designs with their tweaks, is even more amazing. No DIY speaker builder wants to admit someone else has created a speaker design that makes their designs sound like Bose.

I hve argued online with Linkwitz about whether it is fair to compare a dipole design with an unequalized monopole design (because in most rooms the dipole design has an inherent advantage in bass frequency response). However in some rooms dipoles can create nasty bass booms from strong front-wall-to-back wall standing waves (which are particularly easy to hear with dipoles because other standing waves, between other room surfaces, are weaker with dipoles)

I think dipoles should always be compared with parametrically equalized bass monoples.

Dipoles must use bass EQ, so why not use bass EQ with any monopole speakers you are comparing them with?

For monopole speakers the most effective EQ is likely to be parametric EQ used to eliminate all bass peaks under 100Hz.
(measured at the primary seating position).

Only then you can have a fair comparison of equalized Orion dipoles versus an equalized monopole speaker of a comparable price, IMHO

That crafty Linkwitz used a dipole design to address the important room acoustics uneven bass problem but using specially selected conventional drivers for lower distortion than with planar dipoles and electrostatic dipoles). A lifetime of learning in Linkwitz designs and he shares so much info with DIY speaker builders too!
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Richard BassNut Greene
Subjective Audiophile 2007

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