Exciting times! Steve is considering promoting (?) me to Senior Speaker Designer for Home Theater Products at SMJ! That's of course, contingent on whether I come through on these new HT oriented projects! The only downside seems to be that the exotic two channel audio stuff will all be handled by Evil Twin, Lord and Master of Dark Force Acoustics Labs.
Of course, he may keep me on a tight leash for a while, doing things like overriding tweeter choices, in favor of more consistent esthetics. But as National Sales and Marketing Director, he's gotta make the hard decisions, right?
Now, this project is the Mk2, which basically means that a design was well along the way (around the time of the Ardent D), then due to some considerable supply chain issues and increasing performance requirements plus more aggressive targets for cabinet size, etc, well, not just something had to give, but basically the old design was torn up and we started over.
So this thread will explore more complete driver measurements and a prototype build and evolution/evaluation of that test article.
This is a sort of conventional three way, but it will borrow crossover concepts from the mid priced Ardent, not the Neo D CC, though the driver layout will be quite similar, but with a TTC type cabinet ultimately.
At this point, the driver line up is as follows:
Key design targets:
Of course, he may keep me on a tight leash for a while, doing things like overriding tweeter choices, in favor of more consistent esthetics. But as National Sales and Marketing Director, he's gotta make the hard decisions, right?
Now, this project is the Mk2, which basically means that a design was well along the way (around the time of the Ardent D), then due to some considerable supply chain issues and increasing performance requirements plus more aggressive targets for cabinet size, etc, well, not just something had to give, but basically the old design was torn up and we started over.
So this thread will explore more complete driver measurements and a prototype build and evolution/evaluation of that test article.
This is a sort of conventional three way, but it will borrow crossover concepts from the mid priced Ardent, not the Neo D CC, though the driver layout will be quite similar, but with a TTC type cabinet ultimately.
At this point, the driver line up is as follows:
- Woofers: Esoteric ES180TiA, 2 each 8 ohm
- Midrange: Faital 5FE120, 8 ohm
- Tweeter: BlieSMa T25A-6
Key design targets:
- Compact - expected LF volume for 2-7" woofers is ~15-18L.
- Low intrinsic driver distortion- lower than typical HT products
- High SPL capability within the intended bandwidth - a function of motor linearity and voice coil/cone power handling, and operational bandwidth of the drivers based on crossover frequencies, and power as specified typically by AES standard.
- Fits in the box!!
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