Gear Lust: Omnidirectional Speakers and the Duevel in the Blue Dress...
Duevel speakers are not the first, and certainly won't be the last omnidirectional speakers ever designed. But they just may be the prettiest. You can read about them here. The are currently distributed by a Canadian company, Duevel having dropped their US distributor and consolidated in Canada under the umbrella of the very interesting and self described "Zendo" as company Mutine . Look! That's how they do it! Omnidirectional speakers tend to be radially symmetrical - which isn't surprising. And the first popular success was the Ohm Walsh F. Bose (yes that Bose) spent a lot of the 1960's trying to figure out how to do one - and eventually settled on the Bose 901's as a poly-directional speaker - 9 drivers firing to the rear, and 1 towards the listener. I have to say, as an owner of a pair, you will not find a bigger illusion of a soundstage (but diffuse) and a convincing illusion of being at a rock concert when playing live music loudly any...