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Posted by Romy the Cat on
02-09-2019
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A few years ago a Russian guy, Murat form Moscow, popped at this forum
with his ideas to build multichannel horn installation, that in his words would
be the “best in the world”.
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PageIndex=1&postID=21848
After a while I got tired from him and recognized that there
is very little in him that would permit him to get any interesting audio results.
He cruised around audio forum (ordinary suspect), brainlessly buying anything
imaginable, was posting very regularly his “audio progress” at many forums and in
my estimation did not end up with anything sensible. His infatuation with horns
was over very fast his interest in music always had been pathetic. At this
point he should be moving to accumulate golf cards, evaluate Thailand escort services
of collecting postal stamps (as most of his cultural peers do). Murat was different,
he decided to be Audio manufacture, sort of to follow the step of the celebrated
audio-idiot who defected all over audio internet with this
“copy-paste thinking”.
Russians had for themselves some kind of audio should recently
and Murat presented his System 911 product. It is wide-range driver AER BD4
with direct radiator with active amplification. I know or care very little
about the System 911, my experience with audio/life suggest that if I know how person
thinks than his creative output is very predictable, so I will not waste my
time to analyze the Mural new speaker – it should be waste. Still, there is one
very remarkable thing that very positively hit me in his design: a transparent
horn.
I have no idea what the material it was made and what sonic quality
it has. I also very much oppose the profile of the horn the System 911 use. I remember
Murat was stupidly crying that only la-horn able to produce proper sound, I
think he forgot his cry…. Still, the notion of a transparent horn I found to be
a VERY positive direction, I wish we had good materials to do it. Horns are notoriously
large and visuals might be destructive. Using visual transparence and proper
frame design it is possible to make horns to have very little visual footprint.
In his System 911 Mural capitalize the transparency benefits very effectively
and I would be welcome to see more experiment in the transparency direction.
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Posted by decoud on
02-10-2019
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It is an opportunity to pursue the common obsession with all things military: the largest formed transparent structures are probably fighter jet canopies. Acrylic would be optimal, vacuum formed at elevated temperature. Were Jessie dazzle still here I am sure he could whip something up in no time...
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Posted by Romy the Cat on
02-10-2019
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What I suddenly got attracted is not to the transparency of horns
but the transparency as a concept. Let me to explain. All my audio live I had
an eversion to what I call “chrome bumpers”. The chrome bumpers are fine
finished or high color audio elements that made to be attractive. When I see
high colored horns, high gloss amplifiers or manufactures who charge premium prices
because R and L speakers have symmetrical wood grain I want to vomit. These barbaric
“audio attractiveness” objectives are light miles way from what I feel
important in audio. I do not deny healthy pursue in aesthetic including in
Audio but for whatever reasons the “chrome bumpers” in audio made me very
uncomfortable. Perhaps it is because I seen too many people in audio who keep
polish their chrome bumpers and musical did not developer themselves further than
a few audio test disks…
Anyhow, for me the visual absence of playback is very important
factor. I have a tendency to have everything back, tend to listen in dark and
to get the things best I very frequently close my eyes. There is a twist in all
of it. If hypothetically to presume that the entire playback is visual transparent
or closed to be transparent then it opens a pandora box for very different type
of playback/room interaction in case the installation is large and elaborate. I
always had a fantasy to have a playback installation made in a shape of garden where
audio elements are intermingled with garden elements. I think with transparent
horns this might be done in very interesting ways.
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Posted by Romy the Cat on
02-12-2019
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Yep, it looks like the transparent horn is not Murat invention
but AER invention and Mural just adopted it. It does not change anything. I feel that idea
is very interesting and I reals would like to see somebody to some ambition installation
using the transparency as a design element. I do not know why but really see it as some
kind of sound radiating forest side of the room with Liana vines all over the transparent
horns. Or perhaps the horns need to be made from bricks. I am known sucker for
red bricks houses with green ivy…
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