Full range rotatable speaker housing with oppositely directed speakers

Claim 1

A speaker housing comprising a plurality of speakers, a mounting board carrying each of said speakers with the axes thereof in general parallel relationship, means for carrying said mounting board for pivotal movement about a vertical axis, said plurality of speakers each having an open mouth sound emitting portion and a sound generating portion, a first sub-plurality and a second sub-plurality of speakers comprising said plurality of speakers, said first sub-plurality of speakers having said open mouth portions thereof disposed on one face of said mounting board, said second sub-plurality of said plurality of speakers having said open mouth portions thereof disposed on the other face of said mounting board, said mounting board being located intermediate said sound generating portion of each of said first plurality of speakers and each of said sound generating portions of said second plurality of speakers whereby the sound emanating from said first plurality of speakers is oppositely directed from the sound eminating from said second plurality of speakers, an audio amplifier, a crossover network, said audio amplifier and said crossover network being disposed within said housing, said mounting board is generally planar and disposed generally vertically, wherein said first sub-plurality comprises a first speaker and a second speaker and a third speaker and a fourth speaker, said first speaker having a different size from said second speaker and said third speaker and said fourth speaker, said second speaker and said third speaker and said fourth speaker having the same size, said first speaker being operated substantially in the 8,000 to 20,000 Hz region, said second speaker and said third speaker being operated substantially in the 500 to 10,000 Hz region, said fourth speaker being operated substantially in the 20 to 800 Hz region, said second sub-plurality comprises a fifth speaker and a sixth speaker, said fifth speaker having the same size as said first speaker, said fifth speaker being operated in the same frequency range as said first speaker, said sixth speaker having the same size as said second speaker, said sixth speaker being operated substantially in the same frequency range as said second speaker, said fourth speaker being driven by said amplifier, wherein said crossover network comprises three outputs, a first output electrically driving said first and said fifth speakers, a second output electrically driving said second speaker and said third speaker and said sixth speaker, a third output electrically driving said amplifier.