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basscooker

basscooker

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#1
Anyone read or heard of something fun in the pipeline relevant to speakers or amp tech?

Not like "product on the way" news. Like, such and such lab has shown this widget can be made with this material with these advantages, etc etc.

Posted a thread similar some time ago and can't find it to bump it, so...

Anyway. Thanks.
 
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I'm anxiously waiting (probably in vain) for something a la parts basses but for amps/cabs. Markbass put their amp take on that out there for a while. Clunky and not successful, but I thought it was a great step. Not really needed on the amp side with pedal pre's and such. Would still be a neat thing though.

But cabs? Ok bear with me here. Some years ago there were these novelty-ish go-bags with "flexible" speakers for your device. Neat. Never heard one, might have sucked. Anyway, some folks were messing with the idea of roll-up type materials for sound reproduction.

So my fantastical mind went here: Wouldn't a "standardized " range of enclosures with removable/transportable baffle/driver units be fun? The driver/baffle takes up about the same space as a blueprint; once you detach it and roll it up.
Enclosures would be standardized. Big, medium, small. 3D printed and cheap. "Everyone" has at least one.
Your "roll up cone" decides the voicing you want. There are dozens of choices in each size. Just transport the roll.

Dream dream a little dream.
Lol derail my own thread with what if's.
 
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basscooker said:
Was it a thing or just a commercial.... a "quiet" dance club with only Bluetooth transmitter as a sound system. Bring your own headphones.
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I was thinking the head is like a speaker cab and could "throw" sound.
No need to carry anything.


Them headphone parties are funny though.
Turn up your volume. :laugh:


 
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basscooker said:
Fun. How about a DJ and a couple bands in a venue at the same time?. All silent. You pick the genre. Lol.
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I've done a couple of gigs where they've done just that, but with multiple DJ's -- the listener/dancers picked the channel with the groove they preferred. It was not multiple genres though -- to a viewer, everyone appeared to be moving to the same beat, more or less...you know, like white folks tend to do. :D It's a weird-looking thing, though, IMHO... a big bunch of people bobbing and bouncing but no audible music.

And then there's this, the neurophone: https://www.amazon.com/Neurophone-NF3-By-Patrick-Flanagan/dp/B008GOKGXI I looked at this guy's patent about 45 years ago, when we were desperately trying to find ways to make monitor systems work better. The patent claims the device bypasses the mechanical parts of the auditory chain and directly stimulates the auditory nervous system. It appeared to me to be a relatively low-frequency (50KHz) RF transmitter, the antenna of which the user was supposed to place in close proximity his nervous system, either along the spinal cord or against the skull. :eek: I had forgotten all about it until I started to write this post, then I decided to see what an Internet search would turn up. So... the guy, Patrick Flanagan is still in a business of sorts -- if you search his brand on Amazon, you'll find he is literally in the snake-oil, er... I mean, dietary supplement business -- apparently the neurophone hasn't paid off sufficiently. ;) Back in the 70's, when I originally researched this, he also had a couple of popular books about pyramid power, so you might understand my original and continuing skepticism. :laugh:

Update: Further research reveals Flanagan died in 2019, but it appears his various grifts, er, uh... New Age enterprises live on. His Wiki entry claims he invented the neurophone in 1958, when he was 13 years old.

Further update: He also offers a pendant that protects you from "EMF", for which the claim is that it is "The ONLY Pendant You Will Ever Need for Complete Body Protection from WiFi/Smart Meters/Computers/Cell Towers + Much More". You can order one today from Amazon for only $599, plus $29 shipping. (for a pendant that is 1-3/4" in diameter and weighs just over 1 oz. -- it could be mailed for the cost of 2 stamps.) Something tells me if you bought one of these $600 pendants, you shouldn't be too concerned about "Smart Meters", whatever those might be. :D
 
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Redbrangus said:
I've done a couple of gigs where they've done just that, but with multiple DJ's -- the listener/dancers picked the channel with the groove they preferred. It was not multiple genres though -- to a viewer, everyone appeared to be moving to the same beat, more or less...you know, like white folks tend to do. :D It's a weird-looking thing, though, IMHO... a big bunch of people bobbing and bouncing but no audible music.

And then there's this, the neurophone: https://www.amazon.com/Neurophone-NF3-By-Patrick-Flanagan/dp/B008GOKGXI I looked at this guy's patent about 45 years ago, when we were desperately trying to find ways to make monitor systems work better. The patent claims the device bypasses the mechanical parts of the auditory chain and directly stimulates the auditory nervous system. It appeared to me to be a relatively low-frequency (50KHz) RF transmitter, the antenna of which the user was supposed to place in close proximity his nervous system, either along the spinal cord or against the skull. :eek: I had forgotten all about it until I started to write this post, then I decided to see what an Internet search would turn up. So... the guy, Patrick Flanagan is still in a business of sorts -- if you search his brand on Amazon, you'll find he is literally in the snake-oil, er... I mean, dietary supplement business -- apparently the neurophone hasn't paid off sufficiently. ;) Back in the 70's, when I originally researched this, he also had a couple of popular books about pyramid power, so you might understand my original and continuing skepticism. :laugh:

Update: Further research reveals Flanagan died in 2019, but it appears his various grifts, er, uh... New Age enterprises live on. His Wiki entry claims he invented the neurophone in 1958, when he was 13 years old.

Further update: He also offers a pendant that protects you from "EMF", for which the claim is that it is "The ONLY Pendant You Will Ever Need for Complete Body Protection from WiFi/Smart Meters/Computers/Cell Towers + Much More". You can order one today from Amazon for only $599, plus $29 shipping. (for a pendant that is 1-3/4" in diameter and weighs just over 1 oz. -- it could be mailed for the cost of 2 stamps.) Something tells me if you bought one of these $600 pendants, you shouldn't be too concerned about "Smart Meters", whatever those might be. :D
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The closest I ever came to a neurophone, was standing on a Buttkicker platform and playing bass with IEMs. It was like standing in front of a wall of SVTs cranked with the ultra low selected.
 
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#17
Quantum nanotechnology will soon be applied to amplifiers. Meaning an amplifier the size of an effects pedal which only puts a tiny amount of power will use quantum superposition to put out many times more and will use entanglement to replicate from one device to many to create wireless super-arrays of any type of powered driver anywhere in the universe, wormholes permitting.
 
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