| Luthier and guitarist John Tabernacki brought his latest speaker to the RMAF. This smaller NSR Sonic Research D3 is built like an instrument. The enclosure isn’t dead but allowed to flex when needed and uses a special port that acts as acoustic projection lens. The APL as it’s called does not project the sound wave as one would expect by looking at it but rebundles all frequencies emitted by the divers' membranes into a coherent wave form. What we heard was a very dimensional soundfield without any indication that the sound radiated from two distinct loudspeakers. Whatever approach a speaker uses, there will always be point where one of the drivers betrays its separate existence. At that point the listener is made aware of a loudspeaker’s presence as a mechanical device. What NSR achieved was to prevent the notion of any speaker presence to present a ‘speaker-less’ soundfield. |
