Location: Digipen Institute of Technology, Redmond, WA
Moderated by: Greg Dixon
Speaker(s): Gary Gesellchen | Vanatoo
Loudspeaker designers and the music lovers who use their products share a similar dilemma. When confronted with a clean sheet, the designer must ask themselves "what's possible?" When shopping for a new set of speakers the music lover would like to know "what's reasonable". They would both like to know what to expect from a system just by looking at it.
While overall sound quality is what defines a system, the bass response is typically what dictates the size, power requirements, and a good deal of the cost of a loudspeaker system. Looking at the family of designs typically possible from a "bass reflex" loudspeaker allows the designer to quickly home in on the requirements for a proposed system. The results can also be used to assess what to expect from an existing design. Another question asked is which bass reflex designs can be realized with a ported cabinet versus the family of very attractive design options that are only realizable with a passive radiator design.
Join us on February 26th to learn more about the yin and yang of creating a commercially viable loudspeaker system.
Gary Gesellchen is a Mechanical Engineer who built his first pair of custom speakers while still in high school. He launched his own speaker company, Vanatoo, with partner Rick Kernen after a 25 year career in design, manufacturing, and management with electromechanical computer peripherals makers (disk drives and printers). After a lifetime of studying, building, and testing, Gary is beginning to understand speakers. He lives in Seattle with his wife Claire and two kids, and as a native born Northwesterner enjoys the great outdoors and all it has to offer.
Posted: Tuesday, February 11, 2020
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