Voxativ Drivers

[Devonian]

Has anyone any experience of these drivers. I have read reviews but can't find anyone who has ever used them.

Web link Voxativ Loudspeakers

[barackuda]

Reminds me of FERTIN,FEASTREX and all the other full rangers...like a mix of it.
It looks very nice and expensive Why is it that the chassis have the mounting points like that? it makes them really hard to flush mount.Does it have any sonic preferences?

BTW, very nice driver, can you post links to reviews?

Danny

[Scottmoose]

I believe Voxativ arose from the ashes of the company that lost in the AER debacle. If you haven't heard about that one, you don't want to know. Either way, new name, new products, so clearly moved on, which is good. YMMV though -I'd be wanting to see some response graphs before coughing up this kind of money though, although they're hardly alone on this score.

[kevinkr]

They do look interesting..

I'm wondering how much you can trust any published response graph for a FR driver, a lot of them seem to be heavily smoothed. Nearfield measurements I made of my unmodified Fostex FE-167 loosely resembled the manufacturer's FR response graphs when I applied 1/3 octave smoothing to them. (Oddly enough the modified driver response looks worse above 1kHz, but sounds a lot better in my recently built HCC boxes.)

[Defo]

106,5 db/w sensitivity on the AC3 10 ohm version...? daaamn

[Scottmoose]

As a rule, you can't trust them except for assessing broad trends / general balance.

[InclinedPlane]

As soon as I saw the site I knew it was AER/fullrange-speakers. Almost everything matches the older sites. Some of the driver materials and design have changed a bit. I know what they are. They are some of the highest resolution drivers in the world, but are only acceptable for low to moderate volume use with only some program material (Lowther). I'll pass. I can get 85% the resolution, 5% the cost and 500% more fun with the Audio Nirvana drivers.

But if you want to hear things you didn't even know were on your music and cost is no object, get those Voxativ. Shipping to the US will be high.

(Why are the letters V and X so popular)?

[trd1587]

Yeah tell us if you get a quotation..

[planet10]

Originally Posted by Scottmoose

I believe Voxativ arose from the ashes of the company that lost in the AER debacle.

Yes, that is the case. Given their penchant for stealing others IP i wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole (even if i could come anywhere near to affording them).

dave

[Scottmoose]

I think we should just stress that AER are still in business & cheerfully doing their thing. Judging from the name on their legal page (how ironic) Voxativ appear to be from the people who tried to swipe the AER name, got taken to court in Germany a little while back & lost.

Either way, I'm afraid I take a very short view with driver manufacturers these days. If they don't even supply a basic FR & impedance plot, then I don't want to know. It's not like they aren't able to. So assuming that it's not a case that they simply can't be bothered, we have to ask 'what are they trying to hide?' Are they a/ rubbish, or b/ catastrophically bad?

In fairness to Voxativ, at least they supply some T/S parameters, which is more than some do. But it's still not good enough.