Me, too. Just when speaker design seemed to be a solved problem, with a small set of uniform solutions, up springs the concept of co-designing speakers and musical instruments.
What frequency range/instrument are you working with? And what architecture/horns/boxes/tubes/drivers?
Sorry, I left town right after posting that. I'm a bassist, so it's 40 Hz up into the midrange, with not that much going on in the tweeter zone. So far my designs are just lightweight "pro audio" drivers in ported boxes. Nothing sophisticated, but I just want to be in control of how my speakers work.
Interestingly enough, I think that the electric bass involves a sort of de facto co-design, because the bass acquired its "classic tone" during a time when speakers were relatively low performance, i.e, having -3 dB points far above the lowest fundamental. To this day, speakers with that tone quality tend to be preferred by bassists, which is a fortuitous circumstance because it liberates us from dragging around huge boxes capable of actually reproducing that E fundamental at full strength.
Me, too. Just when speaker design seemed to be a solved problem, with a small set of uniform solutions, up springs the concept of co-designing speakers and musical instruments.
What frequency range/instrument are you working with? And what architecture/horns/boxes/tubes/drivers?