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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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Stereophile Stereotypes. Where have all the women gone?
When reflecting on some of the customers who have bought loudspeakers from us, I have noticed that they have one thing in common. They...
Arved Deecke
30. apr. 20153 min læsning
51 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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Confessions by an Ethical Pirate
I have a confession to make. My iTunes music library long contains pretty much exactly the 25´000 songs that are the limit to iTunes...
Arved Deecke
27. apr. 20154 min læsning
10 visninger
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Audiophile Myths No 4. Hires Audio, but wait a minute....
In all honesty, I started this blog post with the title “Audiophile Myth no 4” pretty sure about the outcome. And then learnt and I...
Arved Deecke
24. apr. 20156 min læsning
202 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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Best Way to get Perfect Pitch? Learn to Speak Punjabi!
I was thinking of my high-school friend Clemens Weigel the other day. Clemens lived with us in Vienna while studying the Cello with...
Arved Deecke
21. apr. 20154 min læsning
18 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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How Much Bass is Enough Bass?
So after yesterday’s blog on full range, single driver loudspeakers a heated debate broke loose on several forums around the web. The...
Arved Deecke
18. apr. 20155 min læsning
315 visninger
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About Full Range Speakers, Sound Stage, Phase Congruency and ... Goosebumps
When we say "full range speakers", we really mean "wide range single driver speakers". For one loudspeakers that contain multiple drive...
Arved Deecke
17. apr. 20154 min læsning
521 visninger
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Everything owns its existence to sound: About the incredible work of Nigel Stanford.
I had to look it up: CYMATICS: The study of sound made visible. Now granted we have all seen the odd little science experiment at...
Arved Deecke
15. apr. 20151 min læsning
10 visninger
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Our Audiophile Reference List Revealed.
When building and designing loudspeakers measurements and technical analysis only get us so far. While striving for a flat SPL and a...
Arved Deecke
15. apr. 20153 min læsning
107 visninger
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WAF is that? The Wife Acceptability Factor.
So we have all been there, or have we? We have spent hours surfing the web or roamed stores and rummaged through catalogues in our...
Arved Deecke
15. apr. 20152 min læsning
248 visninger
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My Journey into Stereo Imaging (Part 2): Interview With David Chesky @CheskyRecords
So I went out to talk to someone who operates exactly such recording device: Dr. David Chesky with Chesky Records and their boutique...
Arved Deecke (Founder of Kvart & Bølge)
11. apr. 20153 min læsning
40 visninger
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My journey into Stereo Imaging (Part 1)
Truth be told when I invited Bjørn Johannesen into starting a company to build loudspeakers around his acoustic concept that had been...
Arved Deecke, founder at Kvart & Bølge
9. apr. 20154 min læsning
124 visninger
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Interview With Loudspeaker Designer and Kvart & Bølge Co-Founder Bjørn Johannesen:
Danish resident expert and loudspeaker designer Bjørn Johannesen knows a thing or two about audio. He has been involved in the do it...
HDTracks
7. apr. 20154 min læsning
425 visninger
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Audiophile Myth No 3: Cables should be very expensive
So, say you have it all. A reference amplifier, fantastic studio grade speakers, the best DAC outthere. You really broke the bank. Now...
Arved Deecke
5. apr. 20152 min læsning
49 visninger
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What a ride...
So Steve "Audiophiliac" Guttenberg´s review on CNET really put us on the map. In the past two weeks we have been in a trance-like-state,...
Arved Deecke
1. dec. 20141 min læsning
8 visninger
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Audiophile Myth No. 2: The More Power, the Better.
When browsing Catalogs of Audio equipment, power seems to be a dominant purchasing criterion. Numbers like 100W, 1´000W or even 10´000...
Arved Deecke
4. sep. 20142 min læsning
100 visninger
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