Direct Acoustics Incorporated

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Reading John Marks review of your Silent Speaker II made me want to build my own version of it. Not that I have any experience in speaker building. I’ve re-foamed a set of woofers recently if that counts.

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Direct Acoustics, founded in 1995, is the brainchild of Winslow Burhoe, an important figure in the history of modern loudspeaker design. In 1960, Burhoe had been studying pipe organ at the New England Conservatory when he was chosen for an internship at Acoustic Research, and the direction of his life was set. He assisted Edgar Villchur on the design of the AR4.

In a two-way system, the low end of the tweeter’s frequency response and the high end of the woofer’s frequency response. The tweeter’s low end therefore should be just about the same as the high end of the woofer. One advantage to a speaker company which manufactures its own drivers, rather than buying them ready made, is that the designer can precisely control frequency response through precise variations in such factors as coil mass and cone shape.

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