| Re: Joe's basement [message #91962 is a reply to message #91961] |
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Wayne Parham
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Registered: January 2001
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Bruce is getting up in years, that's true. But he's got a keen mind, so while he isn't as spry as he once was - and definitely hasn't been lugging speakers to shows in a while - he is still sharp as a tack.
But Bruce likes the tractrix horns and I like constant directivity horns. Bruce is a tractrix guy and I'm a waveguide guy. There are a lot of things in common, but there are a few things that are optimized differently in the two approaches.
Bruce favors designs that optimize acoustic loading, even if that means directivity suffers. I favor designs that optimize directivity, even if that means that acoustic loading suffers. Both of us want low-distortion and purity of wavefront launch, but tractrix guys are content for the sound quality to be focused on a single axis whereas waveguide guys are concerned with a uniform reverberant field, and so expect sound quality to be good over a wide area in the room.
Still, we are definitely kindred spirits and I really like the guy.
We have actually been designing speakers for about the same length of time. I believe he started in this hobby in the late 1970s, and so did I. He is older than me, but I started young, as you can see in my first design copyright registration.
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