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its the nads
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 | | Subject: Wall mounted speakers Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:58 am | |
| With modern houses getting smaller and smaller and space becoming a premium, how does it bode for the future for wall hanging speakers, are they comparable to your standard box that sits on a shelf or speaker stand, or they sonically worth investigating? |
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Fnuckle
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| | Subject: Re: Wall mounted speakers Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:10 am | |
| | its the nads wrote: | | With modern houses getting smaller and smaller and space becoming a premium, how does it bode for the future for wall hanging speakers, are they comparable to your standard box that sits on a shelf or speaker stand, or they sonically worth investigating? |
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with a wall hanging loudspeaker. It behaves as a boundary design. If bolted solidly to a very solid wall and at an appropriate height - and it's well engineered - it should be just as good as any good standmount box. If you use a set of good in-walls under the same conditions, they can be better than most box speakers, because the wall acts as an infinite baffle, so no 6dB baffle-step loss in the bass due to diffraction. |
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its the nads
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| | Subject: Re: Wall mounted speakers Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:45 pm | |
| What is an infinite baffle? |
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Fnuckle
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| | Subject: Re: Wall mounted speakers Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:12 pm | |
| | its the nads wrote: | | What is an infinite baffle? |
The baffle is the panel the loudspeaker drive units are set into. The edges of that baffle board will diffract the sound, unless those edges are so far from the drive units that there's no (read: no significant) interaction. A loudspeaker set into a wall is a perfect example of an IB design.
Some people mistakenly use the term as an alternative to a sealed enclosure. Shows how much some people know. |
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Timbo
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| | Subject: Re: Wall mounted speakers Wed Jun 16, 2010 5:07 pm | |
| I would have thought that sitting flush to the wall and having no box to speak off would result in better imaging. The negative which springs to mind is that maybe because there is no box, bass would suffer? |
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flatearther
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| | Subject: Re: Wall mounted speakers Thu Jun 17, 2010 10:59 am | |
| Naim seem to think so  They seem a good idea, whether or not they sound any good is a different matter. |
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hifi nutter
Join date: 2009-09-11
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| | Subject: Re: Wall mounted speakers Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:18 pm | |
| whatever happened to NXT? |
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adam
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| | Subject: Re: Wall mounted speakers Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:30 pm | |
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malteser
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| | Subject: Re: Wall mounted speakers Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:39 am | |
| NXT is still around and have developed a new creation called the BMR. NXT panels abound in laptops and other frustratingly low-fi applications. The BMR, which looks remarkably like an ordinary drive unit with a flat panel instead of a cone, makes great claims for linearity and wide-bandwidth. It's been implemented in one or two docks (Roberts?), Q Acoustics have a surround system using it and Naim have their new Ovator S-600 high end £6k speaker based on it. I find it surprising that Naim did not elect to use a BMR in those new in/on-wall speakers in the shot above. The BMR that was designed for them by Karl-Heinz Fink is a 4" unit so I'd have thought it would fit, although that doesn't mean it would work.
So NXT lives on - if in a different guise. |
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