En intervju med Andrew Jones om högtalarkonstruktion.

[octavia rs]

Hittade denna intervju som Jonh Darko gjort med Andrew Jones (KEF, TAD, ELAC m.m.) om hur han tänker när han konstruerar högtalare.

 

A week before AXPONA, Andrew Jones and I went long over internet wire to talk about his work as a loudspeaker designer. My aim for the podcast wasn’t to reproduce Jones’ CV – his work for TAD/Pioneer and KEF is well known. Instead, I wanted to dive in with a simple question: why are loudspeakers predominantly wooden boxes? From that starting point, Jones went deeper into his Debut and Uni-Fi designs for ELAC and the advantages of active crossovers over their passive equivalents.

Then came the bigger tackles: could a loudspeaker system reproduce a live event recorded in an acoustic space? Answer: nope, thus pulling the rug out from under those who talk about sonic accuracy as an achievable/knowable goal.

This will be no great shock to regular readers/listeners. HEDD Audio’s Klaus Heinz and MBL’s Jürgen Reis have both dispensed with the idea of a system being “true to source” or “uncoloured” in their respective interviews.

What of Jones’ extensive work with measurements and what do they tell him about his loudspeaker designs? According to our Brit turned Californian, many different measurements are required in order to reliably capture a loudspeaker’s performance with graphs and charts. Even more critical is the knowledge and experience to interpret them. Listen in here:

 

https://soundcloud.com/johnhdarko/what-are-the-realities-of-loudspeaker-design

 

https://darko.audio/2019/04/andrew-jones-on-the-realities-of-loudspeaker-design/

 

[calle_jr]

En mycket sensibel man.

Intressant att lyssna på honom.

 

Speciellt hans förklaring till varför högtalardesign alltid blir subjektiv.

Det finns ingen perfekt högtalare.

Säg att man ser fem stycken mer eller mindre allvarliga "fel" på en prototyp under designskedet.

Det går inte att rätta till alla fem utan att det uppstår nya fel, och om man rättar till tre så blir kanske de kvarstående värre.

Hur gör man dessa val?

Det går bara att göra subjektivt.