Heart Pine Speakers Designed by Fern & Roby

Fern & Roby, from Richmond, Virginia, designs audio speakers using heart pine timber, sourced locally, resulting in beautiful and unique products. The company currently sells The Beam full range tower speakers and the compact bookshelves, The Cube. Both are designed and engineered with vast attention to detail and result in extremely attractive products.

Yorba Acoustics (YA) from Riverside, California, will be introducing the new Model G1 Guitar Speaker at the 2015 NAMM Show. The G1 uses a new patent pending reflector technology with a unique geometrical device for correcting the frequency response of the two opposing drivers as well as improving dispersion for better on and off-axis listening positions. As YA says, “The Astonishing Look Is Where Form Follows Function”.

An excellent article from the audioXpress archive, published originally in February 2003, James Moriyasu offers a complete study examining speaker cabinet edge diffraction and what we can do to reduce it. The author attempts to measure the extent of acoustic edge diffraction and test possible solutions for reducing its levels

Audio test and measurement specialist Prism Sound and audio electronics specialist Power Physics have joined forces to promote a free webinar on “How to Choose & Test Audio Power Amplifiers”, as part of its series of web based seminars. The webinar explains how to select a power supply or amplifier for OEM speaker design.

In this Q&A, Charlie Hughes credits his success to knowledge, contacts, friendships, and his wife. He earned a physics degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in1988. After graduation he worked for Peavey Electronics in Meridian, MS as a loudspeaker design engineer where he remained for 14 years. In late 2004, he started his own company, Excelsior Audio, located near Charlotte, NC. Excelsior Audio primarily provides consultation and design services to loudspeaker manufacturers. This article was originally published in audioXpress, February 2013.