Posts by Paavo Jumppanen
When Loudness Wars visit why mp3’s Sound Better than CD’s
It must have been sometime last year during my epic loudspeaker design project (in testing phase) that I noticed, to my shock, that whe...
Loudspeaker System Design – More Performance Measurements
In my previous frequency response measurements posted for the unfinished prototypes I inadvertently had the woofer wired in the wrong p...
Loudspeaker System Design – Completion and Listening Evaluation
Construction to Completion
Making the loudspeaker cabinets "unfinished" was easy, perhaps two days work. Actually giving them a stylish...
Loudspeaker System Design : The Moment of Truth
The elaborate processes I've used in designing this loudspeaker system counts for nothing if not realised in a concrete form. Out of ex...
Loudspeaker System Design : Box Tuning
As I alluded to if you happened to read (or at least skim) through the paper I wrote discussing loudspeaker theory, the tuning of a ven...
Loudspeaker System Design : The Cabinet
Designing the Cabinet for a loudspeaker system is less involved than some people might think. You basically have a limited set of const...
Loudspeaker System Design : Testing the Mid-Tweeter Crossover
Suffice to say that I've had enough experience with making speakers in the past to know that it is worth testing a physical realisation...
Loudspeaker System Design : The Complete Crossover
Last time I posted on the crossover design I was hoping to be able to design the woofer-mid and mid-tweeter sections separately. As is ...
Loudspeaker System Design – A Case for D’Appolite?
A quite popular driver configuration of late is to have the lower frequency drivers in pairs centred around the tweeter in the so calle...
Loudspeaker System Design – Polar Response and Phasing Issues
Recall from previous discussions that it is my firm belief that the strength of a loudspeaker system lies in uniformity of the polar re...