Cut and paste from Oakeshott.How about ignorant?
Cut and paste from Oakeshott.How about ignorant?
Not having done any formal study of philosophy, I had never heard of Oakeshott before. But yesterday I googled a couple of sentences from the quote, and the quaint 1933 book (reprinted often by CUP) came up in google books. I read through a few pages, and judging from the fact that I was able to follow the arguments even though Google omits every third page, I would say that the writing is repetitive. Multiple uses of the word "vicious" regarding science points to a slant in the author's thinking. The book looks like a shaky attempt to limit the relevance of science to not just the universe of sensible matter and energy, but to a non-physical mathematical world of measurements that the author defines. This is even more drastic than a rejection of materialism, and "music to the ears" of subjectivists who believe they hear subtle effects that the measurements do not capture, I am sure. The other "modes of experience" in the book probably get into qualia, and related topics that stretch back to Plato's Cave, would be my guess.Cut and paste from Oakeshott.
Not having done any formal study of philosophy, I had never heard of Oakeshott before. But yesterday I googled a couple of sentences from the quote, and the quaint 1933 book (reprinted often by CUP) came up in google books. I read through a few pages, and judging from the fact that I was able to follow the arguments even though Google omits every third page, I would say that the writing is repetitive. Multiple uses of the word "vicious" regarding science points to a slant in the author's thinking. The book looks like a shaky attempt to limit the relevance of science to not just the universe of sensible matter and energy, but to a non-physical mathematical world of measurements that the author defines. This is even more drastic than a rejection of materialism, and "music to the ears" of subjectivists who believe they hear subtle effects that the measurements do not capture, I am sure. The other "modes of experience" in the book probably get into qualia, and related topics that stretch back to Plato's Cave, would be my guess.
Not that big a room.That would take a pretty large room, I'd think. My modification was a rebuild of the frames, which made the front-to-back path significantly longer. Looked horrible the way I did it, but it worked. Someone more skilled with wood could pull it off and have it look decent.
"Only $10,000"?
Apologies if I've missed some sarcasm
I have never seen these and don't know how they could be generated, or sustain themselves, because in order for the mode to exist it needs a parallel wall opposite.Fellow pedant here...
Often overlooked are the oblique modes, which are the 3-D diagonal modes between maximally-opposite corners. These are the lowest frequency room modes.
I'm not sure that they are typically as strong as the three principle modes you cite, so maybe the obliques don't really qualify as principle modes.
Would you distinguish between the "big panel sound" and something like an ESL-63 that radiates more like a point source? Or do they both have common colorations to you?
My last ESLs were 1+1s, which were sort of a pseudo-line-source.
if the human ear would be able to hear the difference between a spherical (point source) or a cylindrical (line source) wavefront.
Was just thinking about this and had to track it down. The notion that Quad copied the design of an earlier loudspeaker patented in the United States by an MIT student is summarized here by the late Charles Hansen.By some accounts, the reason the Quad ESL 63 took so long to "develop" is that Peter Walker was waiting for the expiration of someone else's patent on the electrostatic panel with concentric rings to mitigate beaming.
This does describe different sections of conducting rods which are fed different signals. It describes that the area of the diaphragm vibrating will vary with frequency and that the outer and inner conducting rods will not be in phase with each other. So it would bear some resemblance to what the ESL-63 did.Was just thinking about this and had to track it down. The notion that Quad copied the design of an earlier loudspeaker patented in the United States by an MIT student is summarized here by the late Charles Hansen.
Here is the referenced patent, which expired on December 19, 1978. I've not read the whole thing, but a quick skim does not indicate much resemblance to the ESL 63. There is no mention of delay lines or concentric rings.
Indeed.[...] I've seen some papers from Walker with different ideas in mind. One was to have a strip across the end of the entire listening room. That strip would be made of thin sections each section part of a delay line. Sending signal into the left end would propagate across the strip to the right. Sending signals to the right would do the reverse. He had in mind feeding the left and right signals into this wide ESL strip for stereo. Which would cause the signal to travel across the room as if it had originated in each corner of the room. If I remember rightly this paper predated 1960. So Walker was already thinking in that direction.
Well that is just another manifestation of the standard problem with cats!Another issue with electrostatics lolView attachment 108067
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Though the download speed feels like 1955.
"Science is the attempt to conceive of the world under the category of quantity. ..."overly verbose" or "dry and succinct"?
How about ignorant?
Cut and paste from Oakeshott.
And you would be unlikely to have heard of Oakeshott even if you had done formal study of philosophy.Not having done any formal study of philosophy, I had never heard of Oakeshott before.