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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker
Post Subject: Point sources: what are they?Posted by drdna on: 1/24/2009
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 tuga wrote:
If you have a midrange driver you can try that for yourself.
In this case the lack of "full-range" audio is so glaring it overwhelms any advantage of the point source, I think.

 tuga wrote:
BTW, do you consider electrostatic speakers to be single point sources? Going back to the Silbatones, I wonder whether or not the back-loaded horn should be considered a point source...
In my mind, anything that has a design goal of the point source (e.g., electrostatics, Lowthers, d'Appolito arrays, etc.) all qualify because they are all imperfect approximations but they all have the design goal in mind of the point source. I question whether the benefit outweighs the intrinsic problems. How important is it? What compromise gets us closest to the Sound.

I personally never thought the point source gained more than it lost; I always have felt the unbalanced frequency distribution lost more in the lifelike sound than the vertical integration added. But I have perhaps never heard the ideal expression. Could it be the Silbatone?

Adrian

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