Moving away from time-domain normalisation and back to focussing on the DB7 specifically, this is a relatively conventional-looking two-way, ported, active nearfield monitor with, as ever, its amplifier heatsink, connection sockets and controls located around the back. The connections fitted compris...
This led the eminent acoustic consultant Theodore Schultz in 1973 to marvel as follows: ‘… it is almost incredible to me that we could produce such a complex and mysterious thing, just by putting up four walls, a floor and a ceiling, and then radiating sound into it. And yet the more...
The third configuration lasted for ten-plus years, until the acoustical consultant Cyril Harris and architect Philip Johnson were hired to produce Avery Fisher Hall, close in design to the successful Abr...