Mad Genius or Dumbass Design?

You're traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's a signpost up ahead: your next stop: the Audio Twilight Zone!


A friend that runs a local antique mall said he had something weird. Well the something weird is really weird. This was the creation of a local engineer who designed and built this speaker. It doesn't look like a speaker but that is whats alleged. The base of the cabinet holds a very specific JBL driver which fires up into these tubes. It is said that he tested and measured each tube on test equipment and that it took a long time to build.

I hope some engineers and speaker builders will chime in and give some sort of a clue as to what this is and how they may think it works. Is this the work of a mad genius or a dumbass? I used to know a guy who thought he would become famous for his crossbreed animal farm with critters like the goaticken or the turkduck. Could this be the same kind of misdirection or sheer genius? Please let us know your opinion.

These are speakers I would expect Moondog to have owned.

This post originated at retro vintage modern hi-fi http://itishifi.blogspot.com