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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What's 35 Years Old and Sounds Better Than 99% of Speakers Sold Today?

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, April 18, 2017    Articles

Backstory Walsh 2 is 35 years old and still better than 99% of the speakers sold today. Lincoln Walsh realized that if you took an inverted cone made of supersonic material and drove it…

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All speakers are NOT created Equal(ized)

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, April 4, 2017    Articles

Speakers that require active, electronic equalization to work properly have been around for a very long time, but with mixed success in the market place. This is changing. I believe it will…

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Best Bookshelf Speakers of the Golden Age

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, January 10, 2017    Articles

You can enjoy a vintage system that sounds better than a modern system and costs less. The best bookshelf speakers from the Golden Age of Audio (late 1960’s through early 1980’s) were…

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The March of Convenience – Wireless Speakers as the New Frontier

John Strohbeen    Wednesday, December 14, 2016    Articles

The Elegant Music Room Once upon a time, if you wanted to listen to music, you either had to have the means and talent to make music at home, or you had to go to a concert hall or other…

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