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RE: Thanks for the correction

I knew you knew I just needed to kick in some old brain cells! I did not think you were insulting Walker.

Malme's speaker is interesting but there is not a whole lot there honestly. The segmenting the driver with series resistors is interesting but Walker had done that in the original Quad. Not to the same extent but the same idea and Walker does not mention this aspect of the design in his patent. Making the thing round is not such a good idea. His patent claims he made it round to control panel resonance and if this was the only reason to make it round there are better ways to address panel resonance. You can't do that by making it round there will still be a panel resonance and he used a damping material on the back side to control the resonance.

Acoustat Spectra, Stax F-81, 83 they all used series resistors to segment the diaphragm in one fashion or another and for the same reason Malme proposed. And yes I agree the Spectra series was too little too late.

If you want to look at a stat that is essentially the Malme you need look no further than the AudioStatic the ES-500 in particular. Other than it not being round it is essentially Malme's speaker and a rather elegant speaker at that. I have a pair of the smaller ES-100. Segmented but not to the degree of the ES-500 or Malme's.




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