I don't know if this guy's speaker will ever be marketable but he's got a playing prototype, and I've not seen anything like it before.
If I'm understanding the concept correctly; a typical digital audio setup recreates a music signal as a mixture of pure sine waves that mix and interact via the Fourier transform principle, and the mixing occurs within a digital processor, upstream of the power amp(s) and speakers.
In contrast; in this guy's setup the mixing of the component sine waves occurs at the speaker itself. That is; driving each speaker are twenty separate signal processors feeding pure component sine waves into twenty amp channels-- discretely driving twenty drivers in each speaker. As such, the Fourier transform occurs at the speaker itself, as the separate driver outputs blend together in front of the speaker.
That's a lot of digital processors and amp channels so even if this guy succeeds in taming all the gremlins, it's a complicated and expensive setup.
Enjoy!
If I'm understanding the concept correctly; a typical digital audio setup recreates a music signal as a mixture of pure sine waves that mix and interact via the Fourier transform principle, and the mixing occurs within a digital processor, upstream of the power amp(s) and speakers.
In contrast; in this guy's setup the mixing of the component sine waves occurs at the speaker itself. That is; driving each speaker are twenty separate signal processors feeding pure component sine waves into twenty amp channels-- discretely driving twenty drivers in each speaker. As such, the Fourier transform occurs at the speaker itself, as the separate driver outputs blend together in front of the speaker.
That's a lot of digital processors and amp channels so even if this guy succeeds in taming all the gremlins, it's a complicated and expensive setup.
Enjoy!
Impressive! Love it.
The theory sounds right, let’s see how this speaker sounds.
Thanks for sharing.
The theory sounds right, let’s see how this speaker sounds.
Thanks for sharing.
