Speaker system and amplifier
Assignee3rd Power Amplication
InventorCharles Edward Moomey
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Abstract
A system and methods for implementing substantially triangular or trapezoidal speaker enclosures and related components. A speaker enclosure may be shaped substantially as an equilateral triangle, loaded with three speakers mounted radially equidistant from the planar center of the triangular enclosure. The speaker enclosure may comprise a triangular port with a detachable lid. A speaker enclosure also may be shaped substantially as a box with an interior triangular subchamber. The speaker enclosures may further include an amplifier system having a novel input gain stage or a novel tone stack, or both. An amplifier system also may comprise parallel audio input processing through input gain modules and tone stack modules, with the separate audio signals summed by a novel mixdown module.
Claims26
A speaker enclosure, comprising:
- a speaker enclosure frame forming comprising three sides arranged in an isosceles or equilateral triangle shape in cross-section, wherein:
- two or more of interior intersection angles where the three sides would intersect of the triangle shape are acute angles, and
- two or more of the three sides of the speaker enclosure frame have a same height where they would intersect so as to form an isosceles triangle in cross-section;
- a front baffle panel at least partially closing a front end of the speaker enclosure frame;
- a back baffle panel at least partially closing a back end of the speaker enclosure frame;
- one or more openings in the front and/or back panels;
- one or more loudspeakers mounted to the one or more openings;
- one or more handles attached to the speaker enclosure;
- a sound-deadening material covering some or all of the internal surface of the speaker enclosure frame;
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- one or more locking members to fasten or lock the speaker enclosure to another speaker enclosure such that sides of the speaker enclosure frame of the same height mate together to releasably-hold multiple speaker enclosures together in a repeating geometric pattern.
A speaker enclosure, comprising:
- a speaker enclosure frame comprising a first side aligned with a first plane, a second side aligned with a second plane and a third side aligned with a third plan, the first, second and third planes forming a triangular shape in cross-section, wherein:
- two or more of the interior angles of the triangular shape are acute angles, and
- two or more sides of the triangular shape have a same height so as to form an isosceles triangle in cross-section;
- a front baffle panel at least partially closing a front end of the speaker enclosure frame;
- a back baffle panel at least partially closing a back end of the speaker enclosure frame;
- one or more openings in the front and/or back panels;
- one or more ports in the back baffle panel and/or the front baffle panel;
- one or more loudspeakers mounted to the one or more openings;
- a sound-deadening material covering some or all of the internal surface of the speaker enclosure frame;
- and
- one or more locking members to fasten or lock the speaker enclosure to another speaker enclosure such that sides of the speaker enclosure frame of the same height mate together to releasably-hold multiple speaker enclosures together in a repeating geometric pattern.
A speaker enclosure, comprising:
- a speaker enclosure frame comprising a first side aligned with a first plane, a second side aligned with a second plane and a third side aligned with a third plan, the first, second and third planes forming a triangular shape in cross-section, wherein:
- two or more of the interior angles of the triangular shape are acute angles, and
- two or more sides of the triangular shape have a same height so as to form an isosceles triangle in cross-section;
- a front baffle panel at least partially closing a front end of the speaker enclosure frame;
- a back baffle panel at least partially closing a back end of the speaker enclosure frame;
- one or more openings in the front and/or back panels;
- one or more ports in the back baffle panel and/or the front baffle panel;
- a sound-deadening material covering some or all of the internal surface of the speaker enclosure frame;
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- one or more engagement members of the speaker enclosure configured to engage the speaker enclosure to another speaker enclosure such that the one or more sides of the speaker enclosure mate together to releasable-hold multiple speaker enclosures together in a repeating geometric pattern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.