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7 Ways Phase Shifts Can Kill Your Goosebumps.
When buying speakers there are a couple of parameters that are rather intuitive for us to grasp. Distortion is very audible, and we...

Arved Deecke
8. aug. 20157 min læsning
342 visninger
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9 Things I Wish Someone Would Have Told me Before I Bought my First Stereo.
I remember well, a younger man, when I first ventured into the wonderful world of high-end audiophile audio. I spent quite some time...

Arved Deecke
4. aug. 20155 min læsning
239 visninger
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The Arguably most Extravagant Way to Reproduce Sound: Plasma Speakers.
Plasma is the most elusive of the four states of matter in physics; there are solids, liquids, gases, and well, plasma. Heating a gas in...

Arved Deecke
23. jul. 20154 min læsning
418 visninger
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Please Crank up the Volume, the Silence is Driving the Neighbors Crazy.
A well-known fact about our human existence is that too much noise can drive us crazy. A less known fact might be that too much silence...

Arved Deecke
21. jul. 20154 min læsning
55 visninger
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Acoustic Lobing Explained.
One of those elusive concepts about acoustics that many people involved in high-end loudspeaker design might not be fully familiar...

Arved Deecke
13. jul. 20152 min læsning
2.215 visninger
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A Wall of Sound: How The Grateful Dead Built the First Modern Concert PA System and the Second Large
Here is my theory: In the sixties music sounded like sixties music, not entirely by choice but by technology. In the the time of Jimi...

Arved Deecke
8. jul. 20155 min læsning
4.074 visninger
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Fateful Attraction: About Neodymium Magnets in High-End Loudspeakers (Contains Graphic Material)
Not too long ago, something happened that was really quite remarkable and it sort of crept into our lives without most of us taking...

Arved Deecke
1. jul. 20154 min læsning
425 visninger
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Loudspeaker Cabinet Design for Stereo Imaging.
In a previous article I talked about the many ways to skin a cat when it comes to loudspeaker design. The fun thing about our profession...

Arved Deecke
30. jun. 20157 min læsning
1.055 visninger
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Headphones vs. Speakers: A Third Solution You Might Find Surprising. I did.
Amongst audiophiles in the world, headphones are experiencing a renaissance and there are so many great things to be said about a good...

Arved Deecke
22. jun. 20153 min læsning
275 visninger
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Wave Field Synthesis: Living Inside the Sound
German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz was a brilliant man but his work on sound and fluid dynamics is most well known for the...

Arved Deecke
21. jun. 20153 min læsning
204 visninger
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If We Didn't Invent the Loudspeaker, Who Actually Did?
I was thinking today that I like my job. First I like music, and then I like challenges. Loudspeakers make music and are challenging....

Arved Deecke
29. maj 20155 min læsning
195 visninger
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If we don´t build the loudest loudspeakers in the world, who does? The miraculous world of loudness.
When researching cool concrete loudspeaker designs the other day, I ran across one that stood out enough from the other by the simple...

Arved Deecke
28. maj 20153 min læsning
151 visninger
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Speaker Setup Guide for Best Stereo Imaging and Sound Stage
When selling our SoundSommeliers speakers which seem to be well received for their sound stage and stereo image, most customers...

Arved Deecke
21. maj 20158 min læsning
4.636 visninger
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How to Survive A Cocktail Party: Through Stereo Imaging
Like most audiophiles what I was looking for in a sound system were mainly things like bass extension and low distortion, resolution and...

Arved Deecke
14. maj 20152 min læsning
97 visninger
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Cool Concrete. Loudspeakers that weigh a lot and one that will kill you.
Let me start with this: No we will not be making speakers out of concrete any time soon. First, because we have our hands full with our...

Arved Deecke
8. maj 20155 min læsning
1.693 visninger
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Salad to Sound, the Best of IKEA Bowl Loudspeaker Building.
Friday´s blog on my speakers made from IKEA bowls went viral. Thousands of people read the article and hundreds commented 50 shared....

Arved Deecke
5. maj 20153 min læsning
1.578 visninger
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About IKEA salad bowls and loudspeakers.
It was actually not all that long ago, that I built my first loudspeakers ever. I built those from 4 salad bowls that I got from IKEA...

Arved Deecke
2. maj 20155 min læsning
4.741 visninger
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Quarter Wave Loudspeakers Explained.
The other day I talked about different loudspeaker designs and with the swarm intelligence of all those who helped contribute to the...

Arved Deecke
28. apr. 20154 min læsning
2.017 visninger
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A Thousand Ways to Skin a Cat. Choose Yours. An Introduction to Different Types of Loudspeakers
When I entered the venture of building loudspeakers not too long ago I must admit that I did so a little haphazardly. Almost entirely...

Arved Deecke
23. apr. 20158 min læsning
448 visninger
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Psychoacoustic Secrets of the Audiophile Brain
I was still thinking about bass extension some time after I published Saturdays blog on how much bass is enough bass. The question...

Arved Deecke
20. apr. 20154 min læsning
152 visninger
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