La Dolce Audio

“The public has a distorted view of science, because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.”

James Dyson

This is our 360 degree radial horn, a pair costs around $500.00, the 1" compression driver screws into the top firing down, but has an open back as well. So on the horizontal axis the sound radiates 360 degrees, spreading sound in an omnidirectional way. The top reflects off the ceiling giving added imaging effects. In the past, a ceiling boundary reflex technology was developed, and you see it in the Atmos tech, but it has been around for a long time.
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Using compression drivers allows us to make and provide the DIY community drivers that will work with practically any amplifier no matter how small the wattage. This allows greater dynamics, lower power compression, and more detail and less distortion caused by higher cone excursions like intermodulation distortion. This is all made possible by 3D printing technology. This omnidirectionala horn presents the sound in such a way that the listener can echo locate the images, giving greater separation and more space between images on the soundstage that is imbedded in the recording. Nothing is artificially created but retrieved from the original recording.

For information on echo location in human hearing and how open baffles make use of that in a room, see YouTube videos on Seigfried Linkwitz's talks. Linkwitz is considered the grandfather of open baffle speakers; he pioneered how they worked and developed the philosophies that all open baffle speakers are based upon today. There are various methods of approaching open baffles, and each manufacturer and developers of open baffles have their own design philosophy and methods. Because we develop DIY drivers and provide free designs for the drivers we design and make, we try to provide the greatest flexibility. We ma,e the drivers and designs, you make the baffles, then if you need more or less of anything, with our support means we can help you get what you need/want sonically.