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The One Show, revolutionary new speaker?
Did anybody happen to see The One Show on Monday night?
There was a film about how speaker design hasn't fundamentally changed in a hundred years and that a company has come up with a revolutionary new design that uses an electrically charged flat panel instead of a cone with a magnet!
Now I'm no expert but hasn't that been done before by a company whose name begins with a Q?
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I think a few companies have tried it too, I recall Wharfedale doing them.
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Yep, they demonstrated simple electrostatics and made sweeping statements about ability to replicate accurately across audible frequency range. I think the headphones were a snip at several thousands of pounds, but hoped that would come down as more sold to to mass market.
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Yes. A lot of nonsense is talked about audio technology.
Though it does seem odd that after all these years, the average speaker still consists of a piece of cardboard (or latterly plastic) being waggled about on the end of a bit of wound copper wire.
Bit like the internal combustion piston engine. We're only just getting past that now after over 100 years.
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Yes I was swearing at the tellie!
If you go into the web site they do mention that electrostatics were 'invented' 60 years ago.
Q, now what could that be, Quintet? Query? Quintessential?
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While it was on I pointed out to Mrs Gaz that her boss owns a 30+ year old pair of these revolutionary new speakers
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This illustrates just what a ridiculous organisation the BBC has become; many years ago they used 57s in the Transcription unit before their loudspeaker design programme.
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Totaly agree!Originally Posted by Pharos
"Today scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality"
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I might see if I can get a slot.
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