We all know Carver made some good stuff because it's what Ferris Bueller used.
Check out these new line array speakers he's doing now:
http://www.bobcarvercorp.com/als
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Carver Line Array Speakers
We all know Carver made some good stuff because it's what Ferris Bueller used.
Check out these new line array speakers he's doing now:
http://www.bobcarvercorp.com/als
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
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Better be good for eighteen and a half grand!
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well yeah, you would hope so!
The concept has always interested me. On paper it is a good solution. I seem to recall Paul Haynes built himself some.
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TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
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A true vertical line source, will have a superbly wide angular dispersion (i.e. very low directivity) in the horizontal plane, but a lousy angular dispersion (i.e. very directional) in the vertical plane.
So the 'letter box effect' complained about with similar speakers (such as the tweeter panels of the Quad 57s) will, IMO, be exacerbated with the Carver designs. Unless, that is, he introduces a phase delay to the feeds of the units moving away from the centre unit.
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Someone who had a "day off" or it might have been an off-day.Originally Posted by User211
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I thought the delay was pretty much essential to make them work?
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Would have thought so, but then Carver's comment that reflections from the ceiling and floor turn the 'finite' line source into an infinite line source won't hold true.
Apart from listening to Quad 63s with their annular electrode structure being sequentially fed by a delay line, I haven't heard any line-source speakers, such as the Infinity Reference designs, or Apogees, so I can't really comment.
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I like Bob's crazy high power KT88 valve amps.
I didn't like his The Amazing speaker. It tried to look like an Apogee planar but used dynamic drivers.
I don't like the marketing bullshit on the linked webpage much. Too over the top.
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