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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9/11

John Strohbeen    Monday, September 11, 2017    News

This is the view from my desk. It has changed forever in reality and in my heart. The change happened on this day 16 years ago. We were just moving into the space where the factory is…

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Top 10 Greatest Speakers

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, May 30, 2017    Articles

The 10 Greatest Speakers – other than Ohm – that I’ve ever heard. And WHY they were great! People often ask me, “What are the greatest speakers you’ve ever heard?” My answer…

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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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Golden Age Bookshelf Speakers – The Cream of the Crop

John Strohbeen    Monday, March 6, 2017    Articles

The introduction of “big” amplifiers (60 watts instead of 3 watts) at reasonable prices propelled the Golden Age of Audio. These amplifiers allowed a major change in speaker design and…

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