Simplicity in Complexity

I've always cleaved to the principle of Occam's Razor: K.I.S.S in more modern parlance, but sometimes - not often, I admit - an idea breaks the surface, that while on the surface complex in nature, has at its heart a reductive quality that chimes with dear old William's precepts. I offer the above pictured loudspeaker system as an example in point [left channel!]. The concept behind this system is disarmingly simple, unlike its execution, which is alarmingly complex. The basic principle of the system is to use Fast Fourier Transformation in real time to break down the audio source signal and split it into radically smaller and simpler outputs, each assigned to individual loudspeaker units that each only has to deal with a small subset of pure sinusoidal waves, allowing a clean separation of all the components of the original signal, rather than taxing one, two or three more conventional drivers with the entire task, usually an enormous set of compromises. I like the idea immensely from that standpoint: the reductiveness of Occam applied to the actual audio content itself. The downside of it all is the sheer complexity of achieving such simplicity. A conundrum, methinks. And anyway, I do still tend to favour the idea of a mono corner speaker with a single ten-inch driver driven by a valve amplifier, like my old mate Pete's 1930's radiogram: it was very musical if not at all accurate...