Most speakers are boxes. Rigid, sealed, acoustically inert boxes engineered to contain acoustic materials rather than become part of the sound. David Kan, IKEA hacker and audiophile, explains, “The [speaker] drivers work solely on their own, without any musical interaction with the enclosure. The sound energy is fully loaded towards the front, masking musicality with high resolution. That makes these speakers oversensitive to room placement and tricky to position.” But what if a speaker enclosure could work more like a piano soundboard? Thin, curved, […]
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