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    Janszen Actives

    If I may jump in (David Janszen, here), no one has had a failure with the [former] amplification, at least not yet. This year, however, we've changed to an all Hypex system. It comprises the dual 500W nCore NC50MP and the Hypex digital and analog input cards in each cabinet. We expect this will...
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    The 12 Most Significant Loudspeakers of All Time

    KLH Nines Rule Again
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    The backwave is dead.Long live the back wave.

    Architects are designers You know, George, seeing as how you are an architect, I should have mentioned that the KLN Nine's I.D. was done by an architect named William H. Barton, a close friend of my father, now retired and living in Concord, MA. He was also responsible for the original KLH...
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    The backwave is dead.Long live the back wave.

    Gigantic point source? Thanks, George. Perhaps more accurately than saying KLH Nines are point sources, especially considering their size, I should say, they operate not as line arrays. I did not want to seem as contentious as I really am by putting it that way, in view of a statement I noticed...
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    The backwave is dead.Long live the back wave.

    Ah, yes, but JansZen Laboratory was doing it decades before the elder Beveridge. In 1955, the first speaker from JansZen was a four-faceted, wide range, ESL tweeter array with a closed back, called the 1-30. It happens that A. A. Janszen also designed two dipoles, the first of which reached the...

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