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Adverts for the Devialet Phantom keep popping up on my browser.
http://en.devialet.com A revolution in sound reproduction or a flash in the pan like NXT? Anyone heard one? It looks like an undersized speaker with a high powered amp and bass boost to give a flat response down to a claimed 16Hz(-2dB) at low levels, or 49Hz(-2dB) at high power levels. -- Eiron. |
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On 8/12/2015 6:46 PM, Eiron wrote:
Adverts for the Devialet Phantom keep popping up on my browser. http://en.devialet.com A revolution in sound reproduction or a flash in the pan like NXT? Anyone heard one? It looks like an undersized speaker with a high powered amp and bass boost to give a flat response down to a claimed 16Hz(-2dB) at low levels, or 49Hz(-2dB) at high power levels. **Dunno, but those Devialet amplifiers are something else. Very, VERY impressively finished product (in every area). Their SAM idea is brilliant. -- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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Would this not result in a lot of intermodulation distortion though?
Who remembers the Philips Motional feedback speakers. Once they ironed out some of the early issues I found they actually sounded pretty good. whether they sounded enough better to justify several amps on each speaker and its attendant cost is de debatable. A nice idea but like so many perhaps not as audible as it might have been. Brian -- From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active Remember, if you don't like where I post or what I say, you don't have to read my posts! :-) "Eiron" wrote in message ... Adverts for the Devialet Phantom keep popping up on my browser. http://en.devialet.com A revolution in sound reproduction or a flash in the pan like NXT? Anyone heard one? It looks like an undersized speaker with a high powered amp and bass boost to give a flat response down to a claimed 16Hz(-2dB) at low levels, or 49Hz(-2dB) at high power levels. -- Eiron. |
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However the original poster should get an ad blocker for their browser.
Brian -- From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active Remember, if you don't like where I post or what I say, you don't have to read my posts! :-) "Trevor Wilson" wrote in message ... On 8/12/2015 6:46 PM, Eiron wrote: Adverts for the Devialet Phantom keep popping up on my browser. http://en.devialet.com A revolution in sound reproduction or a flash in the pan like NXT? Anyone heard one? It looks like an undersized speaker with a high powered amp and bass boost to give a flat response down to a claimed 16Hz(-2dB) at low levels, or 49Hz(-2dB) at high power levels. **Dunno, but those Devialet amplifiers are something else. Very, VERY impressively finished product (in every area). Their SAM idea is brilliant. -- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 07:46:42 +0000, Eiron
wrote: Adverts for the Devialet Phantom keep popping up on my browser. http://en.devialet.com A revolution in sound reproduction or a flash in the pan like NXT? Anyone heard one? It looks like an undersized speaker with a high powered amp and bass boost to give a flat response down to a claimed 16Hz(-2dB) at low levels, or 49Hz(-2dB) at high power levels. 99dB from 750 watts? They have to be kidding. Anyone can make a speaker nominally flat by attenuating all the power above the lowest frequency. These may prove to be more popular in winter than summer. d --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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In article , Don Pearce
wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 07:46:42 +0000, Eiron wrote: Adverts for the Devialet Phantom keep popping up on my browser. http://en.devialet.com A revolution in sound reproduction or a flash in the pan like NXT? Anyone heard one? It looks like an undersized speaker with a high powered amp and bass boost to give a flat response down to a claimed 16Hz(-2dB) at low levels, or 49Hz(-2dB) at high power levels. 99dB from 750 watts? They have to be kidding. Anyone can make a speaker nominally flat by attenuating all the power above the lowest frequency. These may prove to be more popular in winter than summer. I'm guessing as I know nothing about the speakers. However I suspect Devialet will be using a 'digital' sic amp and using some kind of DSP to 'correct' for the speaker's impedance and distortion characteristics. If so, it may not be as wasteful of power as a traditional type of power amp. That said, I have no idea how successful the results will be. No doubt it will intrigue reviewers for its novelty, etc. Jim -- Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email me. Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html |
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On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 08:57:13 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote: In article , Don Pearce wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 07:46:42 +0000, Eiron wrote: Adverts for the Devialet Phantom keep popping up on my browser. http://en.devialet.com A revolution in sound reproduction or a flash in the pan like NXT? Anyone heard one? It looks like an undersized speaker with a high powered amp and bass boost to give a flat response down to a claimed 16Hz(-2dB) at low levels, or 49Hz(-2dB) at high power levels. 99dB from 750 watts? They have to be kidding. Anyone can make a speaker nominally flat by attenuating all the power above the lowest frequency. These may prove to be more popular in winter than summer. I'm guessing as I know nothing about the speakers. However I suspect Devialet will be using a 'digital' sic amp and using some kind of DSP to 'correct' for the speaker's impedance and distortion characteristics. If so, it may not be as wasteful of power as a traditional type of power amp. That said, I have no idea how successful the results will be. No doubt it will intrigue reviewers for its novelty, etc. Jim Well, 750 watts is producing what 1 watt should do, which means they are suppressing everything but the lowest bass by about 28dB. d --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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In article ,
Don Pearce wrote: Well, 750 watts is producing what 1 watt should do, which means they are suppressing everything but the lowest bass by about 28dB. It's going to be some speaker that could handle 750 watts of LF. Mostly extremely large ones. ;-) Couldn't find the spec, though. Could be DIN watts. So more like 250 real. 125 per channel. Even then, will need a pretty decent speaker chassis to handle that without frying. -- *Microsoft broke Volkswagen's record: They only made 21.4 million bugs. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 14:27:06 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote: In article , Don Pearce wrote: Well, 750 watts is producing what 1 watt should do, which means they are suppressing everything but the lowest bass by about 28dB. It's going to be some speaker that could handle 750 watts of LF. Mostly extremely large ones. ;-) Couldn't find the spec, though. Could be DIN watts. So more like 250 real. 125 per channel. Even then, will need a pretty decent speaker chassis to handle that without frying. They probably rely on the fact that modern music mostly has pretend bass that sounds ok on poor equipment. The drivers on that speaker are small, and don't appear to have a huge excursion, so we aren't in earth-shaking territory here. d --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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