Happy Birthday John

Evan Cordes    Thursday, August 22, 2024    Articles

As most of you probably already know, last year we lost our great leader. John Strohbeen drove development at Ohm for 45 years, never satisfied to accept the conventional approach to doing…

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It's Like Being There!

Evan Cordes    Tuesday, August 6, 2024    Articles

The Drawbacks of Conventional Speakers We often listen to music in rooms with walls. The design of most speakers ignores that fact or even forces you, the listener, to fight the room in…

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Who Is Adrian Acoustics?

John Strohbeen    Sunday, May 22, 2022    Articles

And Why is Ohm Selling Their Speakers? The Early Years Let me go all the way back to the beginning. Ohm was basically started and organized by Marty Gerstein, who had been the general…

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Voicing Speakers: My Japanese Experience

John Strohbeen    Thursday, July 25, 2019    Articles

The voice of a speaker is what you hear when you listen to it in a room. Preferably in your own room. This is where art comes into speaker design. Most competent speaker designers can…

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How Big is a Big Room?

John Strohbeen    Wednesday, May 1, 2019    Articles

Bosch Binge: Season 5 on Amazon I spend a lot of my day thinking about speakers, and I enjoy it. Recently I took a day off and spent very, very little time thinking about speakers. I was…

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How Important is a Center Channel Speaker?

John Strohbeen    Wednesday, April 10, 2019    Articles

You probably need one if you have speakers that limit the sweet-spot to a single seat in your listening room and you want a friend to join you in enjoying the movie. Voice intelligibility…

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