AudioKinesis - sound that moves you

AudioKinesis, my “house brand”, is the label I put on loudspeakers of my own design. I place a lot of emphasis on getting the reverberant field right and minimizing power compression, and try to do so in a package that your wife just might let you put in her living room.

Emphasis is on value and performance rather than a big profit margin. I will try very hard to get you an audition if you’re interested - I’m willing to drive hundreds of miles to give you an in-home audition, and if you live farther away than that give me a holler anyway and maybe I can come up with something.

Models

Dream Maker

The Dream Maker takes an innovative approach to music reproduction that gives greater weight to psychoacoustic considerations than most contemporary designs do.

Jazz Module

The Jazz Modules offer a somewhat unorthodox approach to realistically recreating natural timbre and dynamic contrast over a fairly wide listening area in a reasonably-sized package.

Rhythm Prism

The first thing you notice is the front baffle, angled inward at a 45-degree angle. The Rhythm Prism might be the world’s first 11-inch wide speaker that sports a 12" woofer on the front baffle.

Planetarium Alpha System

The Alpha system is optimized for situations where the main modules must be very placement-flexible.

Planetarium Beta System

The Beta system is optimized for rooms where the main speakers can be placed out from the wall several feet, giving sufficient time delay to the energy from the rear-firing drivers to better approximate the sound fields we experience at a live performance.

Swarm Bass System

The main obstacles to natural-sounding bass reproduction are the inevitable room interactions - which impose large peaks and dips on the bass response. By using multiple subs spread asymmetrically around the room, each sub will produce a unique peak-and-dip pattern at the listening position. The combined average of these unique peak-and-dip patterns is much smoother than any one of them would be, resulting in more natural-sounding bass with excellent pitch definition.

Sealed Swarm Bass System

The less expensive sealed version of the Swarm follows the same basic principles as the vented version

Background

As a long-time amateur speaker builder, over the years I’ve accumulated a few ideas about what goes into a good loudspeaker design. Now these ideas are hardly original, but many of them are still more the exception than the rule.

My design goals are:

Uniform radiation pattern over much of the spectrum. This results in a reverberant field with a correct spectral balance, which contributes to natural timbre and long-term fatigue-free listening.
Freedom from dynamic compression. Musicians use dynamic contrast to convey emotion, so a speaker that is free from dynamic compression at normal in-home volume levels will do a better job of conveying that emotion, all else being equal.
Freedom from coloration, including box internal resonances, panel resonances, driver resonances, and audibly significant frequency response aberrations.
SET and OTL friendly impedance curve. Some of the finest sounding amplifiers out there have a fairly high output impedance, so we try to keep the impedance curve above 8 ohms and as smooth as possible.
A reasonable balance between efficiency, bass extension, and box size (which is closely related to WAF). My speakers can’t possibly be all things to all people, but hopefully they’ll be enough things to enough people for me to make a few sales.
Good value. My parts cost is approximately 60% of the price that I ask, and that doesn’t include the time I put into them (fortunately I don’t build the cabinets, though I do work on the interiors). Of course all that means nothing if the speakers suck, so I’ve worked very hard to put together a good combination of drivers, enclosure, and crossover design.

Any dealer’s house-brand speakers typically get looked at with suspicion, so I expect that. No offense taken. My hope is that, if it looks like my designs might meet your criteria, you’ll contact me about them. If we both conclude that one of my designs looks like a good possibility, we can work on finding a way to get you an audition.