{"id":1745,"date":"2014-02-08T15:39:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T13:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2020-05-24T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T12:20:09","slug":"bo-tech-the-naked-truth-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/08\/bo-tech-the-naked-truth-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"B&#038;O Tech: The Naked Truth II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#12 in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/category\/bang-olufsen\/\">a series of articles<\/a>\u00a0about the technology behind\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bang-olufsen.com\">Bang &amp; Olufsen<\/a>\u00a0loudspeakers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned in an early posting about two months ago, if I didn&#8217;t have time to write enough, I&#8217;d cop out and post some photos of development models of some of our loudspeakers. It&#8217;s been a busy week. So, here are some photos of the BeoLab 18 and BeoLab 14.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1747\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1747\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl18_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1747\" alt=\"Early BeoLab 18 prototype.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl18_01-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl18_01-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl18_01.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early BeoLab 18 prototype. This photo was taken on the floor of the Cube.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1748\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1748\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl18_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1748\" alt=\"Early BeoLab 18 prototype  - acoustic lens closeup \" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl18_02-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl18_02-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl18_02.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early BeoLab 18 prototype &#8211; acoustic lens closeup. The lens itself is an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stereolithography\">SLA<\/a> prototype and is attached to the top of the milled plastic cabinet using modelling putty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1749\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1749\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl18_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1749\" alt=\"Early BeoLab 18 prototype showing a closeup of the port. Putty was added to the bottom of the port opening to smooth the curve as part of an investigation about reduction of turbulence noise.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl18_03-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl18_03-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl18_03.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early BeoLab 18 prototype showing a closeup of the port. More modelling putty was added to the bottom of the port opening to smooth the curve as part of an investigation about reduction of turbulence noise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1751\" style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl14_v1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1751\" alt=\"The first BeoLab 14 prototype - subwoofer and satellite. Note that the DSP and amplifiers would be external for this prototype.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl14_v1-171x300.jpg\" width=\"171\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl14_v1-171x300.jpg 171w, http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl14_v1.jpg 584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first BeoLab 14 prototype &#8211; subwoofer and satellite. Note that the DSP and amplifiers would be external for this prototype. The white modelling putty at the top of the pipe used to port the cabinet was put there to reduce turbulence noise. It is not a prototype of the final geometry of the port flare &#8211; it was just a quick-and-dirty solution for the initial demos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1746\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1746\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl14_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1746\" alt=\"BeoLab 14 subwoofer innards.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl14_01-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl14_01-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl14_01.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BeoLab 14 subwoofer innards.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1752\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1752\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl14_innards_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1752\" alt=\"The business end of a BeoLab 14 subwoofer.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl14_innards_01-243x300.jpg\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl14_innards_01-243x300.jpg 243w, http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/bl14_innards_01.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The business end of a BeoLab 14 subwoofer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#12 in\u00a0a series of articles\u00a0about the technology behind\u00a0Bang &amp; Olufsen\u00a0loudspeakers &nbsp; As I mentioned in an early posting about two months ago, if I didn&#8217;t have time to write enough, I&#8217;d cop out and post some photos of development models of some of our loudspeakers. It&#8217;s been a busy week. So, here are some photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,32,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-bang-olufsen","category-loudspeakers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48hIM-s9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}