Kinda interesting, let me know what you guys think.

http://www.vibeaudio.co.uk/products/...ackdeath-qb69/

 

That's an ugly speaker.

 

I'd avoid it like the plague.









get it?

 

 

not really a square if it's a 6x9

 

*Square* 6x9

My bad

 

 

^x2

 

Wow are you foreal? if it measures 6" x 9" then thats what it is.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck,ods are it's a 6x9

 

I loled a bit when i read that

 

Yeah it's ugly but I would prefer a rectangle 6x9 over the oval shape.

Wonder if it would affect sound quality?

 

yes!

It took years worth of research and laser interferometry before KEF bothered to make an "oval" (more of a racetrack actually) speaker. And they only did it for a short while.


sound quality suffers!

 

 

I think what gavintomas1 meant was that if it's 6x9, then it's not a square. It's a rectangle.

 

I would think that it would be louder though

 

It probably would due to more cone area

It'll sound like ass tho

 

I would trust this brand with their better amps (because they are Zeff / Nikola Engineering buildhouse amps) but these speakers look like typical Chinese junk.

Fellas, the DIY audio market can get you much further for much less. www.meniscusaudio.com, www.partsexpress.com, www.madisound.com

 

How do you figure it will sound like ass?

I've heard their 3D line up and it sounded pretty good to me but I'm still fairly new to this

 

I'll answer that because I already did.

Its the speaker shape. When the speaker is moving, distortion occurs when the shape of the speaker changes, even slightly. Thus a cone shape being one of the geometrically strongest, stiffest shapes available makes sense. As I explained, KEF worked for years with very limited success on what they called the "racetrack" driver, which looked like an oval race track. Changing to a non-round speaker may be acceptable for low frequency drivers like subwoofers, because the frequencies those speakers experience are not usually high enough to cause cone breakup, and other distortion nodes due to cone mis-shaping. It actually is still better to have a round speaker due to reduced linear and non-linear distortion profiles, BUT it is debatable if you'd hear it in a sub, given ~10% distortion is near the threshold of audibility in a subwoofer frequency range. In the mid-range however, its quite different. Our ears can pick up on it.


Thus, unless that speaker had millions of R&D dollars into it, it probably sounds like "ass"