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Audio Discussions
Topic: Double enclosure or using walls.

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Posted by decoud on 03-01-2008
If I may be forgiven for knowing next to nothing about audio, may I ask what are the principal objections to making  *the room* the enclosure of a loudspeaker, i.e. integrating the  drivers directly into the wall as is done here - http://www.wallsofsound.co.uk - and thereby removing one of the two enclosures generally thought to be ineliminable.

The reason for asking is that there are obvious *commercial* reasons why one would not want to do it, so the fact that noone is doing it is not enough of an argument against the idea.
Posted by Romy the Cat on 03-02-2008

Decoud,

There is nothing wrong in what those guys propose and there is nothing wrong in in-wall to mount drivers in infinite baffle configuration. In fact it very much interesting idea to build a custom room with a strange shape where wall most favorable be shaped for sound formation in this room. However, how it is usually is done is just a sound for lounge audio and for lounge music. You are sitting is bar, crewing sandwidges and drinking mango juice, and trying to convince your girl-friend in 432 times that it is “not good time” for you to marry her. Meanwhile 150 feet from you on the stage a Liberal Art School of Music drop out plays some gipsy tunes on unturned cello, accompanied by drunk friend with Casio keyboard. That is a lounge musical experience and what the regular wall-mounting audio produce is good enough to support it. I do not mean to say that all lounge music is bad – have witness some stunning lounge music events but all lounge audio objective are not really serious. There are zillion reasons why and I think that if you are “knowing next  to nothing about audio” then to discovery those reasons might be a good journey for you.

Rgs, Romy the Cat
Posted by decoud on 03-03-2008
Hi Romy,

Very many thanks for your comments. I suppose it may be - as you seem to imply - that the kind of room for which it might theoretically work well would not be a room anyone would want to be in. Anyhow, I can take the other reasons I come to think of in time as a measure of how far I've gone down that particular journey, though I am not confident of approaching a zillion, try as I might.

Best, D

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