Siegfried Linkwitz may be one of the most important names to loudspeaker designs ever. His theory and approach to speaker design is quite literally out of the box. His creations include the Audio Artistry Beethoven and the Orion and his influence is obvious on speakers like the Jamo R909 and Legacy Audio’s Whisper.

While mainstream commercial speaker designs have tended to stay away from his “open baffle” approach, they have not dismissed his electronics development. Almost every half way decent speaker out there uses his Linkwitz-Riley circuit to split the signal into the treble and bass parts (the treble going to the tweeter in your speakers, and the bass going to the woofer).

Well, Mr. Linkwitz gave a lecture entitled “Accurate Sound Reproduction from two loudspeakers in a living room” at the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Section Meeting in London in November of last year. The lecture was just posted on YouTube. I just watched it, and it is truly something everybody should watch before purchasing their next pair of loudspeakers. Even if you have the slightest interest in speakers and sound reproduction, I think you’ll find this lecture quite interesting. Mr. Linkwitz does a fantastic job of explaining what is an extremely complicated subject matter in fairly simple terms

(yeah, sorry, forgot to warn you it’s a little long, although each part isn’t more than 10 min)

Filed under: Gadgets | Technology, Home Audio — Santi @ 3:24 pm