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Forums » General Discussion » Home Theater » Very clever designed speaker by Outlaw Audio
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#340629 - 03/02/11 03:11 PM
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![]() shareholder in the making ![]() Registered: 01/29/04 Posts: 13633 Loc: Iowa |
I'm sure many of you have seen this already. I figured it was a great design since we always talk about can I use a center vertical, or can I use a M22 horizontally. They have created a speaker with 2 crossovers, with a switch depending on the orientation you want. What a great concept for matching LCR.
http://outlawaudio.com/products/lcr.html ![]() ![]()
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#340633 - 03/02/11 03:23 PM
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![]() shareholder in the making ![]() Registered: 05/03/03 Posts: 18044 Loc: NoVA |
Neat! 5..4..3..2..1 until someone asks why Axiom hasn't done that, you lazy slackers who don't really care about your customers!
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#340634 - 03/02/11 03:25 PM
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![]() axiomite ![]() Registered: 12/27/08 Posts: 6914 Loc: It's all about the location. |
Interesting idea, but honestly they should probably offer the same speaker with your choice of orientation, vertical or horizontal use. You'd think offering a switchable crossover would add unnecessary cost to the end product since the majority of people know what they want when they spend that kind of jing. Still, it's very interesting what they did.
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#340635 - 03/02/11 03:26 PM
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![]() connoisseur ![]() Registered: 09/19/08 Posts: 4116 Loc: Porch,enjoying Bombay Sapphire |
Emotiva uses such a feature applied to the surrounds - bipole/dipole switch.
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#340637 - 03/02/11 03:32 PM
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![]() connoisseur ![]() Registered: 02/06/09 Posts: 3466 Loc: Western Maryland, USA |
What they should do is come up with two different baffle designs for uncompromised driver placement, and then accompany those layouts with optimized crossovers.
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#340648 - 03/02/11 06:28 PM
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![]() shareholder in the making ![]() Registered: 01/29/04 Posts: 13633 Loc: Iowa |
Yeah, what were those designers/engineers thinking, they should listen to us, yeah.
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#340655 - 03/02/11 07:48 PM
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![]() axiomite ![]() Registered: 12/06/07 Posts: 7786 Loc: Canada |
Originally Posted By: ClubNeon What they should do is come up with two different baffle designs for uncompromised driver placement, and then accompany those layouts with optimized crossovers. Agreed. There's a name for that... um, oh yeah, I think they call it a dedicated center. ![]()
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#340659 - 03/02/11 09:36 PM
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![]() shareholder in the making Registered: 05/11/02 Posts: 10644 |
Reading the Outlaw site, the claim is that the dual crossovers allow for "optimal performance" in either a vertical or horizontal position. If that's supposed to mean that the performance when horizontal is just as good as when vertical, that's highly unlikely. While horizontal configurations do require different crossover adjustments to minimize their problems, this doesn't make things even; crossover changes can't do everything. It's highly likely that while horizontal performance is significantly improved with the new crossover, the performance while vertical using the vertically optimized crossover is still superior.
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#340685 - 03/03/11 08:26 AM
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![]() shareholder in the making ![]() Registered: 01/29/04 Posts: 13633 Loc: Iowa |
ICBM-2 on the way soon as well...
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#340687 - 03/03/11 08:34 AM
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![]() shareholder in the making ![]() Registered: 09/27/04 Posts: 11445 Loc: Central NH |
Ooooooohhhhhh..... pretty!
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