Thursday, April 30, 2015

Integrated Delivery

Integrated Delivery is the next step in the stereo puzzle. Once the drivers have been selected, it's time to align them. In the case of the Wilson Alexia Loudspeaker ($48,500.00 USD), 1", 7", 8" and 10" are used. You'll see some work has gone into the cabinet to place them, retrospectively to each other, both horizontally and ... vertically.

KEF's Uni-Q aligns them (like on the KEF LS 50 Loudspeaker, $1500.00 USD), by placing them together - one effectively inside the other - on the vertical plane. Obviously this takes away some radiating distance - area, actually, as the outer drivers will not move the inner drivers, and visa versa. This is what you want - an inert cabinet - in a loudspeaker.

It's not the case for musicality, however. A loudspeaker with a very non-inert cabinet, the Totem Element Earth Loudspeaker ($8995.00 USD), is very musical.

Hello! by Insed

Musical instruments like Violins and Cellos resonate, and you'll notice that speaker makers like the Italian Sonus Faber copy the cabinets of the instruments in their speaker designs. They're very good instruments, Sonus Fabers speakers.

Magico takes the opposite approach. They make their speakers metal and very inert. Wilson comes in the middle.

Let's talk about Integrated Drivers. You can't have one without the other. That is, you can't have a point source without a driver alignment. Placing a tweeter in the middle of a woofer is not the best way to do it.

Sexually, that is.

The Wilson integrates the gloss with Gustavo.

For the on-sure male, it's a very sexy loudspeaker. They provide a mid-bass hump that's appetizing, and a top end that literally sparkles and shines.

Many like the top-end. The Wilson Alexandria X2. A new tweeter was introduced in the XLF, which the Alexa shares.

Looking at your penis (unless you are endowed), you will notice it is likely the same diameter (1.25-1.5") and also soft dome.

The Wilson Alexandria top-range XLF has drivers 1", 7", 13" and 15", but for now let's concentrate on the Alexia.

Many drivers, particularly bass drivers, are posited as "deep-throw." Our Veloydyne, a F-1500R with a 2.5g accelerometer,  had a 15" with a 5/8" excursion which hit 18 Hz. Today's drivers go deeper and longer, with more moving mass (the Velodyne, 79 lbs, total).

The four drivers on the Alexia (and 5 on the XLF) need placing and aligning next to each other.

Integrated Delivery is very God like. In the last image by Wilson, you will notice boxes by Hermรจs. We like the poor stitching of the orange chair. 1950's retro-chic.

Note: the height of the listening room. You will want one that is very state-room like. 22 ft or 18 ft in height, with minimum dimensions of the Red Room at White House (28' by 22.5') will do.

This is not perfect, though it is stately. Ideally, you'd like

2.6 L
1.6 W
1 H

JP 2015/04/30
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