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PROJECT PHILOSOPHY
In recent years small artisan companies not linked to "big number" strategies have significantly raised quality levels, often with highly cost-competitive products.
I produce loudspeakers that are often considered responsible for an entire chain of listening, but I'm convinced that Hi-End equipment must also be embraced by a unique project philosophy.
Source, Amplifier, Loudspeaker
Speakers with parallel surfaces, straight edges and corners create stationary waves inside the furnishing which negatively affects the loudspeaker. In practice, everything that happens inside the loudspeaker can be heard outside it. In addition, external diffraction is created which has to be taken into account when designing crossover. Of course, a parallelepipedon, or indeed a cube, is easily transported (especially across oceans) and can stored at much lower costs. However, when dealing with HIGH FIDELITY, this aspect should not have a negative influence on quality.
CHOICE OF SPEAKER AND CROSSOVER
The entire range of frequencies, the "fateful" 20-20.000 Hz, is extremely difficult to achieve with a single speaker. Therefore, bar rare exceptions, one requires a crossover filter that separates the frequencies being sent to a single speaker. But Sound is too complex a thing to think one can break it up and then glue it together again without loss of sound information.
An irrefutable assumption is that any musical signal, passed through any component, whether active or passive, is modified.
I thus prefer single speaker projects, or crossover filters that use the fewest possible components with the highest possible quality.
An artisan company has a freer hand in choosing both speakers and design methodology, and can focus on achieving objectives in even a single pair of speakers.
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