[Boatanchors] speaker advise wanted

J. Forster [email protected]
Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:12:34 -0400


Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:

> Wasn't there a movie called "Cheaper By The Dozen"?

Yes. It as based on a book of the same name by the Gilbreths. They invented a unit
ot time (?) called the Thurblig (read backwards). They were efficiency experts. PBS
Nova did a show about them.

> Do any of you...  remember reading the article in Popular Electronics? (might have
> been Electronics Illustrated) in the late sixties about the wall of small speakers
> concept? This guy had perhaps a dozen ofour inch speakers wired up to present
> quite an impressive sound and nice dispersion pattern.

It was a 4 x 4 array, and was called the Sweet Sixteen

-John