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Two channels opened up the concept of the Left, right and a phantom “center” channel. Of those huge top-of-the-line speakers from audio’s early years.īut then something remarkable happened in the home-music TheĬoncert Grand series-made from around 1951 until the mid 1970’s-was emblematic
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Order to reproduce what it could of the full musical frequency range. Used four (4) 12-inch woofers and a line array of cone tweeters in a mammoth box in
Multiple woofers or big ported or horn-loaded speakers. Of that time had to be huge, refrigerator-sized infinite baffle designs with In order to reach down to even to 40 or 50 Hz, the best speakers Staples: Full-range speaker with whizzer, infinite-baffle co-ax Hard time believing this is how it once was. Today’s rabid home theaterĪficionados, meticulously positioning their 7.2.4 Dolby Atmos speaker system,Īided by sophisticated digital Audyssey room-correction EQ, undoubtedly have a When the closet door was closed, the “enclosure” was
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Installed raw, standalone speakers (perhaps full-range drivers with a ‘whizzerĬone’ to extend the response a bit or an actual coaxial design) into walls orĬloset doors by cutting a circular hole in the hollow-core wood door and Many people didn’t even buy commercially-designed and University, Bozak, Jensen, Electro-Voice and others dotted the scene. Surround and a very stiff, low compliance suspension system. Infinite-baffle design, woofers that had some kind of accordion/pleated Speakers in those days were typically some sort of bass-reflex or Power, if it was specified at all, was usually on the order of 10%, especiallyīut, a low-end limit of 50 or 60 Hz was just fine in 1951īecause the vast majority of home loudspeakers couldn’t reach any lower than Ten or twenty watts maximum was common, with a frequency range of about 50 orĦ0-15,000 “cps” (cycles per second, as it was called then).
(single channel), comprised of tube electronics of limited power and bandwidth. Those very early post-war home music systems were not exactlyīarn-burners of wide-range, accurate reproduction. Home music systems took their place alongside television as the staples of home As millions of returning GIs got married, raised their families andīought houses in the newly-burgeoning suburbs that were springing up everywhere, In the late 1940’s/early 1950’s-right after theĮnd of World War II in 1945-‘hi-fi’ audio became a major hobby and pastime inĪmerica. Seem to rally around the thought of, “Bass-The Final Frontier.” The crusade forīetter bass response has been an ongoing quest of audiophiles since the veryĮarliest days of this hobby. With all due apologies to Gene Roddenberry, audio enthusiasts definitely Main, sealing a vented speaker does not create a proper sealed-box system.īut first, some historical context. Under very specialized conditions (which we’ll touch upon later), but in the There may be some understandable reasons you might want to do this Neither fish nor fowl: It no longer performs like the vented speaker it wasĭesigned as, nor is it a properly-executed sealed speaker.
A ported speaker with its ports sealed off is a strange mutation that is In fact, nothing could be farther from the Representative and indicative of what sealed loudspeakers are all about. Speakers are now bonafide sealed systems and that their performance is now Today’s audio enthusiasts make the mistake of thinking that these newly-sealed Speakers from many great companies that come with “port plugs” so the user canīlock up the ports and turn these systems into “sealed” systems.
There are lots of great ported subwoofers and full-range tower