TitaniumTroy
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https://twit.tv/shows/home-theater-geeks/episodes/216?autostart=false
This video is from 2013 so somewhat dated, it also gets pretty geeky/detailed about speaker design. However they didn't get into mathematics so I was able to hang with it. I really liked listening to the part about how they designed the tweeter/wave guide to deliver the good qualities of a ribbon tweeter. Without a ribbons drawbacks like compression at high levels and heat changing the frequency response.
I checked the ID and boarding pass of the designer, on the right in the video (Charles Sprinkle) of the tweeters waveguide when he came through the South Bend Airports Checkpoint. He had on a JBL Synthesis polo shirt and said he could only pass if he gave me a pair of M2's.
Then he explained that JBL had a new 7 series monitor ($2K a pair) coming out that used the same tweeter and a scaled down woofer of the M2. Hence the reason he was in town, Harman does their accounting out of the nearby town of Elkhart IN, and Crown Electronics is located their also.
A few months ago I bought a pair of JBL LSR308 using same tweeter wave guide technology, ($300 used) studio monitors to compare against my Magnepan 3.6's. So will have to post results once I get them up and running, speakers stands coming tomorrow. I know some people will say your comparing apples vs oranges, but to me that's the point I want to compare the differences in my own acoustically treated room.
This video is from 2013 so somewhat dated, it also gets pretty geeky/detailed about speaker design. However they didn't get into mathematics so I was able to hang with it. I really liked listening to the part about how they designed the tweeter/wave guide to deliver the good qualities of a ribbon tweeter. Without a ribbons drawbacks like compression at high levels and heat changing the frequency response.
I checked the ID and boarding pass of the designer, on the right in the video (Charles Sprinkle) of the tweeters waveguide when he came through the South Bend Airports Checkpoint. He had on a JBL Synthesis polo shirt and said he could only pass if he gave me a pair of M2's.
Then he explained that JBL had a new 7 series monitor ($2K a pair) coming out that used the same tweeter and a scaled down woofer of the M2. Hence the reason he was in town, Harman does their accounting out of the nearby town of Elkhart IN, and Crown Electronics is located their also.
A few months ago I bought a pair of JBL LSR308 using same tweeter wave guide technology, ($300 used) studio monitors to compare against my Magnepan 3.6's. So will have to post results once I get them up and running, speakers stands coming tomorrow. I know some people will say your comparing apples vs oranges, but to me that's the point I want to compare the differences in my own acoustically treated room.
