Well, I hope you enjoy your new speakers! I myself have been intrigued by Mr. Linkwitz' past designs with the Audio Artistry brand.
I have found sources that concur with your definition and use of the term "monopolar". And I promise you, they DO NOT relate to real loudspeaker systems in the real world. It is as though two different cultures are using two different operating definitions of the same term. In the audio realm, a monopole is a loudspeaker that radiates sound in one direction, whereas in the world you live in, speakers are turned on their backs, pointing towards the ceiling, thereby becoming omnidirectional, because that is the only way, in the real world, that your scientific/mathmatical definition would apply. Sure, you can put a driver in a box and place a mic in front of it at different angles to the pole of the speaker, and chart on a piece of paper a polar response graph that approximates a circle, but that does not take into account the fact loudspeakers and ears operate in a 3-dimensional world, not on a piece of paper. -- jdm56 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jdm56's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9919 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38593 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
