[AliG]

Jim, how does this sound compare to the HT3??? I would like to know what the "trade-off's" are.  aa aa

[JoshK]

FWIW, there is a thread on htguide.com that started off about another speaker DIY design and got a bit tangent about this Bagby design....  The poster basically gives his highest praise to this design and says its the best he has ever heard.  Coming from hardcore DIY'ers that is big praise indeed.

link

[fsimms]

Also in the egyptian theme. 

"Aten"

I think it is pronounced Ah-ten.  Akhenaten's sun god.

[jd3]

I'll second WindSongs

[klh]

I'll second WindSongs

+1

[yooper]

I'll toss in Song Monuments or Music Monuments.


Mark

[DMurphy]

"Good catch.  I saw this last evening and wondered how long it would take for someone to notice it.  According to Jeff, the graphs he supplied during the design process were based on anechoic measurements of the raw drivers and are not representative on the real-world response of the finshed speakers in the designed cabinets."  


I'm not sure that's quite the explanation.  Without an anechoic chamber, it isn't possible to capture anechoic measurements below about 200 Hz.  The sample window is too short to get a good read on the wave lengths involved.  My best guess is that Jeff took a nearfield measurement of the woofer and spliced it on to the rest of the driver measurements.   But either way, the woofer measurement will not capture room gain, and the actual - 3db and 6db points will be lower than shown.  And the region above 200 Hz is amazingly flat.  Sure wish I could make it out to beautiful downtonw Livonia to hear these things. 

[DMurphy]

Very cool...

They don't remind me of cathedrals, but they do remind me of the (open) doorways you might find in a cathedral, so how about the Salk Portals.

I second that one.  Brilliant double meaning. 

[sanlanman]

Wow, as always, another example of Jim's fine work.  I'll add Cathedrals to the list of names.  I guess you could go so far as to call them Open Cathedrals.

D@mn, beat me to it. "Cathedrals" was what came to my mind. They look like the outline of arched cathedral windows.

[Big Red Machine]

Let's name them after my HT:  Salk Sanctum

[godawgs5]

Wow, those look....um...really nice.     A couple of my suggestions:

Salk Aperto's - open in Italian
Salk Harbinger's
Salk Zypher's

[ArthurDent]

Borrowing from fsimms - Salk AirWaves

Back to work.....

[rydenfan]

I like Salk Portals

[mateo]

I like staying with the Egyptian theme, or otherwise Salk Portals. Cathedral sounds awkward, and its not like the speakers are giants, either.

[avahifi]

Of course "SongPortal" comes to mind.

Frank

[BobM]

If there's no real consensus you could always call them ... BOB

But truthfully, all of your speakers have gorgeous woodworking. Unfortunately there's nobody up here in NY that has a pair, that I know of at least. I'd love to give ANY of them a listen one of these days. All of the good word of mouth about each and every design makes my mouth water. 

Enjoy,
Bob (the man, not the speaker)

[MaxCast]

Sound Portals

Lots of good suggestions, glad I don't have to pick it.

Can't wait to hear them.  What are you going to run them with?  See you Saturday, Jim & Frank.

[JoshK]

I'll second WindSongs

+1

-1

[Boybees]

Salk Enclave

[jsalk]

Sound Portals

Lots of good suggestions, glad I don't have to pick it.

Can't wait to hear them.  What are you going to run them with?  See you Saturday, Jim & Frank.

MaxCast -

Frank should have some nice, moderately-powered tube gear to drive them.  I think it will be a real nice ombination.

- Jim