i swear that i was just thinking about this exact kind of thing yesterday when i was pondering my new quantum line source's! then, in trying to fix the technical shortcomings, i came to the logical conclusion that we should just listen to all music live :sigh:
in all seriousness, the lattice idea might work if you could exert electromagnetic forces from every direction outside the lattice, imagining something like a sphere of charges concentric to the lattice, but this concentric sphere would still somehow have to be sonically transparent, and i just don't see that working, even if we could manipulate the charges properly. i don't know...
I don't know, either, but now you are getting into some of the problems I was referring to. I've dabbled with thinking about this stuff literally for YEARS, and while I've occasionally had some insights or ideas, I've yet to come up with anything remotely achievable in the real world, using any materials or technologies that I know actually exist. There are all kinds of challenges and difficulties in trying to make a "quantum breakthrough" in driver design. {And I'm not going to begin to get into the mental masturbation of designing speakers based on quantum mechanics. Save that for science-fiction fantasies. LOL!}
These difficulties probably constitute the main reason that except for some minor tweaks and newer materials, most drivers today look remarkably like the ones our grandparents had, and many of us still eagerly seek out grandpa's old speakers! Speaker execution has advanced a bit (mostly to suit the needs of manufacturers!), but the basic designs have been "stuck" a lot longer than many technologies. The few really innovative designs mostly remain on the fringes, like plasma speakers with their big problem of running costs and ozone production, and the Heil AMT, which IMO has not found the widespread application it deserves. Planar and ribbon drivers are gradually getting wider use, but even all these things are decades-old technologies. I do think that one day some materials chemist will stumble on some new metallic polymer compound (or whatever) that will behave in a way that will make some of these more extreme "molecular-based" ideas possible. In a way, Piezo tweeters are almost a "molecular" design, but unfortunately they are crude and not good-sounding, and trying to re-fashion them into something more practical presents its own set of seemingly insurmountable obstacles (although I haven't given up on thinking along those lines yet).
Then again, even if a breakthrough made it cheap and easy to make something like this, if the speaker were THAT good and THAT revealing, it would mean people could clearly hear how poor their iPod MP3s really sound, and how badly mastered half their CDs are. Might remain a niche market, and might not be economical for mass-production... or it might revolutionize audio and create a resurgence of demand for good-sounding recordings. Who really knows what the audio world will look and sound like, 50 or 100 or 200 years from now?
Sorry Arkay, just stuwee, tryin' a funny
"Being a FAN of similar designs, if I had the time and such, I'd give it a WHIRL"
Get it?
, okay, I went a little Out there, I thought I was brilliant
AAAAH, if you are referring to the weird fan sub-woofer, it makes great sense, and was brilliantly "punny" (a pun on "funny"!
). Well done! :thmbsp: I didn't get it at first because the Planot design I was referring to in the OP is a completely different design, not using a fan.... although it does whirl! :yes:
