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Legendary Laurence Dickie - Bowers & Wilkins | The Iconic Nautilus | Vivid Audio | Loudspeaker Engineering

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This week, host Jorden Guth is joined by legendary speaker designer Laurence Dickie to discuss his history with Bowers & Wilkins, the design of the iconic Nautilus, how his thinking on speaker design has evolved over to years, whether or not he draws inspiration from nature, and why his speakers are an exercise in engineering, not industrial design.

Sources:

"From the Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus to Vivid Audio Speakers - Laurence Dickie’s Tapered Tubes (Ep:58)" by SoundStage!: https://youtu.be/dcef8tuxezU?si=6BDD7fWbYLp4ypiG

"A Family of Linear-Phase Crossover Networks of High Slope Derived by Time Delay" by Lipshitz, Stanley P.; Vanderkooy, John: https://secure.aes.org/forum/pubs/journal/?elib=4598

https://vividaudio.com/

https://www.blastloudspeakers.com/

Chapters:
00:00:00 Announcement
00:00:20 Introductions
00:01:05 The road to Bower & Wilkins and beyond
00:25:40 Music Break: "The Magnetic Buzz" by Moon Walk
00:26:33 Convergent evolution vs. convergent design
01:02:23 The soundtrack to Laurence’s life
01:04:45 "Golden Diamond" by Shahead Mostafafar

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This week, host Jorden Guth is joined by legendary speaker designer Laurence Dickie to discuss his history with Bowers & Wilkins, the design of the iconic Nautilus, how his thinking on speaker design has evolved over to years, whether or not he draws inspiration from nature, and why his speakers are an exercise in engineering, not industrial design.

Sources:

"From the Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus to Vivid Audio Speakers - Laurence Dickie’s Tapered Tubes (Ep:58)" by SoundStage!: https://youtu.be/dcef8tuxezU?si=6BDD7fWbYLp4ypiG

"A Family of Linear-Phase Crossover Networks of High Slope Derived by Time Delay" by Lipshitz, Stanley P.; Vanderkooy, John: https://secure.aes.org/forum/pubs/journal/?elib=4598

https://vividaudio.com/

https://www.blastloudspeakers.com/

Chapters:
00:00:00 Announcement
00:00:20 Introductions
00:01:05 The road to Bower & Wilkins and beyond
00:25:40 Music Break: "The Magnetic Buzz" by Moon Walk
00:26:33 Convergent evolution vs. convergent design
01:02:23 The soundtrack to Laurence’s life
01:04:45 "Golden Diamond" by Shahead Mostafafar

  continue reading

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