In Reply to: RE: What Is The Biggest Problem With Speakers Today? posted by Brian Cheney on March 15, 2008 at 19:56:59:
Brian what's your thoughts on a driver's stored energy as possibly being the greatest problem? I read a statement by Bo Bengtsson --- the man who designed the original Red Rose R3 speaker for Mark Levinson's Red Rose company --- that stated (my paraphrase) the biggest problem with speakers is that they don´t release their energy fast enough. With speakers the membrane must be able to stop as fast as it accelerates . If not (which is normally the case), energy is stored and delayed, something that causes ringing aka --- time-related distortion--- which is what prevents you from hearing all the micro-details in the music.
Mr Bengtsson also stated one method of dealing with this issue is to use ultra-thin ribbon membranes in an extremely strong magnetic field. I know that the naysayers here will immediately state that Bo believes this because he designs ribbon based speakers but, I'd suggest he designs ribbon based speakers because he believes what he says to be true! I'm curious what your thoughts are on his belief.
Thetubeguy1954
A Rational Subjectivist
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- Brain What's Your Thoughts On This? - thetubeguy1954 03/16/0809:54:04 03/16/08 (14)
- RE: Brain What's Your Thoughts On This? - Brian Cheney 10:29:15 03/16/08 (13)
- What does Pinky think? (nt) - AJinFLA 16:07:05 03/16/08 (12)
- NARF! - Bruce Kendall 10:38:44 03/17/08 (11)
- RE: NARF! - thetubeguy1954 11:51:45 03/17/08 (10)
- Well, Pinky is one of my favorite cartoon characters. - Bruce Kendall 12:16:21 03/17/08 (9)
- "Normal," no: usual, yes. (nt) - robert young 13:22:38 03/17/08 (8)
- Sadly It's Normal For The Tampa Weiner (nt) - thetubeguy1954 13:34:03 03/17/08 (7)
- So let me guess. It's only the subjectivists doing the Hokey-Pokey. - Bruce Kendall 15:09:35 03/17/08 (6)
- RE: So let me guess. It's only the subjectivists doing the Hokey-Pokey. - thetubeguy1954 07:20:01 03/18/08 (0)
- Please provide proof of your extraordinary Hokey-Pokey ability - kerr 17:13:28 03/17/08 (4)
- I would, but some people believe that all - Bruce Kendall 10:43:20 03/18/08 (3)
- RE: I would, but some people believe that all - kerr 10:59:11 03/18/08 (2)
- If I tried it with someone else's shoes - Bruce Kendall 11:28:37 03/18/08 (1)
- Begone, and don't return until you have DBT results! :) (nt) - kerr 12:16:04 03/18/08 (0)