My understanding is that Dennis Murphy does the crossover design for Salk, but who will be handling the acoustic design?
Will Salk be copying Bud Fried's designs exactly, or making variations based on his basic concepts?
It is my feeling that bass performance in a speaker is something that most designers are not able to get right, and Irving Fried (and Peter Snell) were two of the very few who did. In fact, to my ears, the voicing of Fried speakers from around 400Hz and down was outstanding, even in his resistive port designs, but the mids and highs were just good.