Posted by akhilesh [ 204.97.214.168 ] on August 03, 2004 at 04:58:56:

In Reply to: "Distributed Mode Radiation" posted by Wayne Parham on August 02, 2004 at 12:19:40:

What a great link. Thanks Linc & Wayne!
My take afer a very cursory reading was that: a) it reduces beaming and b) it does so with few tradeoffs.
However, i am curious if the piston model is not better in some way for natural reproduction. It just seems more "intuitive" than a random model. Doesn't a large array of speakers approximate the random model? Aren't there issues with the many driver array design that involve fundamental tradeoffs when compared to a single driver or even a 2-3 way design?
-akhilesh

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