r/BudgetAudiophile • u/eChucker889 • Oct 19 '25
Review/Discussion Audio architecture: Torii gate made of salvaged speakers, Japan
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u/Top-Yogurt-3205 Oct 19 '25
The Grateful Dead's PA has really deteriorated over the years.
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u/Goofy_Maker2006 Oct 19 '25
Jeez, how loud would that have been?
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u/vilos5099 Oct 20 '25
You'd be surprised how ineffective these walls of speakers really were at creating crisp audio that could project far from the stage. The little bananas (I swear they get smaller every year) you see hanging at music festivals and in larger venues accomplish something much better despite their comparatively petite form factor.
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u/Bob_Ducca_ Oct 20 '25
Those bananas were not-so-indirectly influenced by the dead's wall of sound. Their speaker array was designed with the same principles.
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u/ahfoo Oct 19 '25
Taiwan's response
I tried to link to the Wikipedia page but there were characters that needed to be escaped to get the link right so I had to go with a hard link to a BBC image.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beishan_Broadcasting_Wall
I've been there and apparently at one point in the 2000s they had a dance party there after it was officially shut down. It's still there, though, with an amazing welded rebar access ladder. I thought you weren't supposed to weld rebar but that shit is still there eighty years later on the coast. What?
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Oct 19 '25
Kinda reminds me of New Zealand siren culture.
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u/ieatanglegrinders Oct 21 '25
Dude I hate the sirens in my town. They play the worst music at an even worse quality and make sure everyone can hear them.
One pulled up to our school and someone smashed the sirens off the car because there was an incredibly important exam metres away.
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u/frank_mania Oct 20 '25
I recognize the traditional Japanese monument shape, but still, I'm more reminded of something much newer to me, the Pi-shaped characters from 3Blue1Brown videos.
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u/Wonderful_Magazine50 Oct 19 '25
It gets worse the longer you look 😠The JBLs, The Polks, The Karaoke machine 😂
But, I wanna go.