Theory, ingenuity, and wishful wizardry in loudspeaker design—A half-century of progress?
George L. Augspurger · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1985
During the past 50 years the course of professional loudspeaker design has been well documented. The history of high fidelity consumer products is less familiar and more erratic. Loudspeaker designers seem to have embodied three archetypes in varying proportions: the elegant theoretician, the inspired tinkerer, and the wishful wizard. A brief examination of some of their enduring successes, ephemeral favorites, and resounding failures is presented.