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Post Subject: Stig CarlssonPosted by el`Ol on: 3/2/2009
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Hello Romy!
I have been into the topic of indirectly firing speakers for a while, starting with highly dirictive fullrangers directed towards the ceiling. I don´t know whether you are familiar to Stig Carlsson´s speakers. Probably the older Sonabs with ceiling firing midwoofer and multiple tweeters. Less well-known outside Sweden is the later OA-50 series:
http://www.carlssonplanet.com/oa52_2.php
I built speakers like that originally with strange FR/dispersion fullrangers and currently prototypes with added tweeters, what didn´t spoil their spacial properties at all, so now I am glad to be away from paper highs.
The result achieved with Carlsson speakers is a stunning spacial realism when fed with true stereo recordings. With synthetic reverb recordings the sound just sticks to the speakers and you have nice pingpong stereo. For me this is only the case for a few ancient music recordings, but this trait makes these speakers mainstream incompatible.
Regards,
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