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In the Thread: High End Munich 2023
Post Subject: How many wrongs make a rightPosted by anthony on: 5/28/2023
 Romy the Cat wrote:

Actually it is not exactly accurate. In the way my Macondo is a magic bullet. If you read carefully old article about Macondo axioms then you will see that one of the major underlying principle of Macondo topology is not to fight acoustic specificity of any given listening room but rather embrace and to operate within a given listening room idiosyncrasies. Mycondo, it is not what I designed but rather what I empirically ended up in the contact of the drivers is that I choose to use. I presume that in context of conceptual different acoustic of a listening room and in context of fundamentally different drivers that look of Macondo will be different.  Pay attention that Macondo does not populate anything about low frequency. Macondo is vertical pile of time align channels with imposement to use lower frequencies than upper base driver which do not conflict with the room.



Yes, Macondo definitely interacts with the room a lot less than "normal" speakers but so do a lot of other narrow directivity horns.  Macondo has narrow directivity below the rooms transition into modal behaviour which may be a real point of difference to many...the Upperbass horn really matters!

There is a whole school of research driven modern loudspeaker design that looks to make the power response of the loudspeaker as even as possible on and off axis with the intent of having the reflections that make it to the listener as close a mimic in terms of frequency response of what left the loudspeaker as possible.  I can see tremendous benefit of this particularly in untreated or poorly treated rooms and compromised room setups.  Achieving these goals relies heavily on DSP and non physically time aligned drivers.   Macondo, of course, with its widely vertically separated channels and tractrix horns would have a rubbish off axis power response but its saving grace is that it does not put much energy into those other areas of the room, has no DSP involved, and is physicall time aligned.  A little bit of room treatment also goes a long way with Macondo.


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