The Roberts Reunion was an exercise in taking a lateral approach to achieve a truly fantastic performing and looking product. It has a superb tonal balance, achieves a huge SPL with low distortion and has some really fantastic features, including a broadcast mode, Bluetooth 5.3… and it’s waterproof too! Continue reading “Roberts Reunion – Turning it around!”
Roberts Zen Plus – Innovation in Bedside Radio
The Zen Plus concept was to create a small and attractive clock radio with some distinctive features: Continue reading “Roberts Zen Plus – Innovation in Bedside Radio”
Making the UK’s #1 soundbar: The Orbitsound T12v3
A 10-year retrospective
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Inspired by Blumlein
The year was 1993. I was 17 years old, and helping my father prepare for a recording we were to do on location of a choir. At the time I recall we had some of the first available low cost large condenser microphones available, and one of these had a pattern switch that allowed cardioid, figure 8 and omni directional recording. In my own work recording bands, I’d only ever used the cardioid setting, and didn’t give a thought to the ‘figure 8’ option.