History of the Nautilus loudspeaker
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History of the Nautilus loudspeaker
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Re: History of the Nautilus loudspeaker
#2I get redirected to https://www.bowerswilkins.com/net/blog/products/history-of-n... and the redirect hijacks my back button.
Maybe this link is more ergonomic to other users as well.
Re: History of the Nautilus loudspeaker
#3I get redirected to https://www.bowerswilkins.com/net/blog/products/history-of-n... and the redirect hijacks my back button. Maybe this link is more ergonomic to other users as well.
For me the link works fine, I haven’t noticed troubles, but anyway thanks :-)
Re: History of the Nautilus loudspeaker
#4I used to work in boutique audio retail. One of the big challenges of the business is how big and heavy good speakers are. In the old days we would need to crate the speaker to customers’ house for audition as every room has a different acoustic, and try a few different speakers with more crates with a upfront fee/credit to purchase, but it doesn’t happen nearly as often anymore. Showrooms nowadays also mostly do not have the right environment and setup for the speakers to perform well as they were before. In fact most people do not have an opportunity to listen to half decent audio from a heavy passive speaker and the type of sound they could make relative to homepods is becoming more of a myth now. And the direct implication of this is speaker makers need to make more profit per sale and the price increase for Klipsch Heresy and Forte for each revision is bananas. There are still software company making solutions to emulate speaker sounds before a purchase calibrated to common headphone models, I don’t know how they function but every customer who’d tried one of those would walk away for almost certainty as it sounds crappy.
Re: History of the Nautilus loudspeaker
#5I get redirected to https://www.bowerswilkins.com/net/blog/products/history-of-n... and the redirect hijacks my back button. Maybe this link is more ergonomic to other users as well.
Did the same to me on Firefox Android.
Re: History of the Nautilus loudspeaker
#6I'm surprised there's no mention of the cochlea in this article... I always assumed the design was inspired by it. Surely there's some analogy in how the human ear breaks down frequencies in the cochlea and how a speaker produces them in a similar shape?
Re: History of the Nautilus loudspeaker
#7I'm surprised there's no mention of the cochlea in this article... I always assumed the design was inspired by it. Surely there's some analogy in how the human ear breaks down frequencies in the cochlea and how a speaker produces them in a similar shape?
> Surely there's some analogy in how the human ear breaks down frequencies in the cochlea and how a speaker produces them in a similar shape?
A false analogy, at best. The sound is produced entirely by the speaker, which sits at the front of the speaker; the "nautilus" shape is simply a resonant chamber.
Re: History of the Nautilus loudspeaker
#8I used to work in boutique audio retail. One of the big challenges of the business is how big and heavy good speakers are. In the old days we would need to crate the speaker to customers’ house for audition as every room has a different acoustic, and try a few different speakers with more crates with a upfront fee/credit to purchase, but it doesn’t happen nearly as often anymore. Showrooms nowadays also mostly do not…
I work in high-end AV. Perceptually, in a good space, those fantastic speakers often do not make the sound people associate with "loud", no distortion, no top end becoming hissy, just the concert-level bass to clue you in to how loud it is.
People who have paid a lot for their system want that "wow" factor that immediately makes anyone think it's loud.
The other issue is that different listening material definitely needs different amplifier and processor settings - there is no setting that "just works". We find many customers do not wish to get engage with those settings these days.
Re: History of the Nautilus loudspeaker
#9I'm surprised there's no mention of the cochlea in this article... I always assumed the design was inspired by it. Surely there's some analogy in how the human ear breaks down frequencies in the cochlea and how a speaker produces them in a similar shape?
Not necessarily; it's the (inverse) horn shape that is important here (see the higher-frequency speakers), and the woofer would simply be too long to be practical without coiling.
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#10I haven't listened to the Nautilus but I have listened to the B&W 800 (RRP £23500) speakers and they really have to be experienced to be belived. I was listening in a studio environment that had just installed them, as an upgrade from the already very nice Quested setup they had. When we switched to the 800's the effect was profound. The speakers just disappeared leaving this seamless soundstage where noises just happened within it, rather than relative to the L/R points of the spectrum like most speakers. It was incredible.
I'm a former audio engineer turned dev, still producing music. These babys rocketed to the top of my "if my options are ever worth anything" bucket list.