New Website "in the works"

John Casler · « **on:** 3 Jan 2006, 04:57 am »

Finally!!!

Seems like everything is happening all at once, with CES, and the intro of the CDWG, and the Website finally coming together.

While B, and I have been trying to get the website up for a while, some of the people involved simply caused us to waste too much time.

Recently we started fresh, and have an excellent designer who was poised to build the site and wouldn't you know it, Dubravko updates his site to pretty much (minus just a couple small things) exactly what we have been after.

So we will be running a site and sharing many of the same pages simply adjusted for US measurments and such.

The CES page, as well as the CDWG newsletter, is already in place and those visiting can use the VMPS Europe site (which is remarkable) until we have the rest of our pages up.

I have also been planning several new things to make the site all it can be. Hope to slowly implement them over the next few months.

I'd like to thank Scott Harper, of s h a r p e r s o f t w a r e d e s i g n, and Dubravko, of VMPS Europe, for all their assistance and help in accelerating what seemed to be an endless process.

CES/THE Show page is up with all the show info, and more is to come.

Look Here: http://www.VMPSaudio.com

warnerwh · « **Reply #1 on:** 3 Jan 2006, 05:03 am »

The opening page is very Nice! I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of it. Dubravko also did an excellent job updating his site.

lkosova · « **Reply #2 on:** 3 Jan 2006, 01:41 pm »

As you said.....FINALLY!!!!

See ya at the show.

Larry

ctviggen · « **Reply #3 on:** 4 Jan 2006, 09:17 am »

You might want to tone down (or add some background to) the constant directivity part of the website a tad. For instance, "FR" is not defined and comes out of the blue to someone who's not that familiar with CD. As another example, I'm not sure I understand what this means: "If you want to hear 20kHz well off axis, that means a speaker no more than 2/3” wide down to as low as possible, where it can mate with larger diameter woofers which are already working into 2 pi (180 degree) space and are about to transition to omnidirectional or 4 pi space." Does this mean that you want to hear all 20kHz, i.e., 20Hz-20kHz, well off axis (I think so) or that you want to be able to hear a 20kHz tone off axis (doesn't make sense, but maybe)? Why are the woofers going from 2pi to 4pi space? Are these angles relative to the front (i.e., centerline) of the speaker? If so, how could a woofer transition to 4pi (360 degrees) space? Wouldn't that mean the woofer radiates behind the speaker at 4pi? Is that even possible? Or is this a function of our hearing (i.e., we can't locate low bass sounds that well and the woofer appears to be omnidirectional)? I think a little more background in the right places would help those of us like me who aren't speaker designers figure out the problem and the benefits of VMPS's solution.

On the other hand, it sets out the problems and solution very well, for someone who can understand all that stuff.

John Casler · « **Reply #4 on:** 4 Jan 2006, 10:14 pm »

Quote from: ctviggen

Are these angles relative to the front (i.e., centerline) of the speaker? If so, how could a woofer transition to 4pi (360 degrees) space? Wouldn't that mean the woofer radiates behind the speaker at 4pi? Is that even possible? Or is this a function of our hearing (i.e., we can't locate low bass sounds that well and the woofer appears to be omnidirectional)? I think a little more background in the right places would help those of us like me who aren't speaker designers figure out the problem and the benefits of VMPS's solution. ...

Hi Bob,

Brian is (as we speak) setting up the VMPS CDWG RM30 Room at the St Tropez, so likely he won't be able to answer.

However regarding the LF radiation; That is a function of LF radiation in general. As a frequency goes lower the "firing" plane is less important to the dispersion/radiation of the sound.

As the frequency goes lower the directionality of the sound moves into greater radiation, until at the lowest frequencies, it is actually "Spherical" to the driver attitude.

warnerwh · « **Reply #5 on:** 4 Jan 2006, 10:59 pm »

I must agree with Bob that not getting too technical and using terminology most of us can understand would be a good idea. I didn't understand the Pi stuff either. With all the new customers that will be visiting the site that aren't aware of audiocircle simple terminology would be best. Also for people like myself who can only remember basic algebra. If you have more than one x or y or Pi I start getting more lost than I already am.
I think I got it now, Pi an abbreviation for Pie.