The Oasis Audio 816A is an evolutionary leap in speaker development beyond the “box” cabinet which is so common to the audio industry as we know it. The 816A is capable of true 360º sound radiation when measured from any angle. Omnipolar radiation is derived from a single point source driver. Without crossover or DSP, this speaker achieves the sound radiation patterns of the very instruments used in the original music!
This task was accomplished by using a spherical “live” cabinet, asymmetrically driven and acoustically coupled to the back wave of the driver. Consider the spherical shape of the “live” cabinet as an infinite series of hemispherical slices and you can see how almost any point lies within the outer boundary of one hemisphere and at the point or apex of a hemispherical “slice” taken from another angle. This geometry allows the cabinet to reradiate energy from the driver across the audio spectrum while acting as a sonic “prism”, emitting the sound while avoiding phase inconsistencies and comb filter effects. On AND off axis sound reproduction has never been better! A true single point source speaker with an omnipolar radiation pattern.