NEW ScanSpeak Illuminator Woofer

[nicoch58]

http://www.tymphany.com/

[nicoch58]

http://mms.businesswire.com/bwapps/m...d=5&download=1

[nicoch58]

he all new ScanSpeak Illuminator line is the flagship of Tymphany’s transducer offering, and represents the pinnacle of cost-no-object audio transducer design. The line will initially feature four models; 5¼” and 6½” mid-woofers, and ¾” and 1” tweeters. Additional sizes will also be released in 2008.

“The Illuminator line is the culmination of many years research, and I’m very excited about the performance we have been able to achieve,” said Tymphany CTO Bob True. “I think the combination of best in class performance combined with easily customized cosmetics will prove very compelling to our OEM customers.”

ScanSpeak Illuminator woofers are based on a patent pending “underhung” neodymium ring motor design with an extremely open cast aluminum chassis. The new 5¼” actually moves so much air, its performance exceeds many competitors’ 6½” models. Multiple cone materials and cosmetic finishes will be available.

ScanSpeak Illuminator tweeters build on the heritage of the renowned ScanSpeak D29 “Revelator” tweeter, regarded by many as the best in the world. Also employing high force factor neo ring motors, the Illuminator tweeters have proprietary damping materials within an aluminum back chamber, resulting in great heat dissipation and very low resonance. A variety of dome materials including magnesium, titanium and beryllium can be delivered upon request.

The new Illuminator products will be manufactured exclusively in Tymphany’s transducer factory in Denmark. Samples will be on display at Tymphany’s suite during the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show.

[ShinOBIWAN]

Interesting. With so many of Scans old driver engineers now departed I wondered if these will indeed by a step forward over the well established Revelator and Sliced paper designs.

I'm a sucker for anything like this so I might just have to find out for myself rather waiting for the opinions and tests to come in. Please speak up if anyone has any more info or photo's.

[nicoch58]

the scoop come by troels site ,from CES.....


http://www.businesswire.com/portal/s...44&newsLang=en

back reflactions are solved....new cone.... the 2008 are very interesting

[nicoch58]

tw :
A variety of dome materials including magnesium, titanium and BERYLLIUM can be delivered upon request.

Sound good!!!

[ShinOBIWAN]

Originally posted by nicoch46
tw :
A variety of dome materials including magnesium, titanium and BERYLLIUM can be delivered upon request.

Sound good!!!

Lets hope that's not an option just for OEM customers. I say this because most of driver manufacturers will do production runs of custom drivers but these tend to carry a proviso along the lines of "minimum quantity 100".

Hopefully a DIY'er will have access to the variety of materials and at quantities starting from a single driver. Of course we don't the exact benefit or pitfalls of each material used in a particular driver but at least the option is there and will allow tailoring for bandwidth and crossover specifics.

[ShinOBIWAN]

Taken from Troels Website , hope he doesn't mind:

[nicoch58]

DIYAUDIO is OEM ??

[tc-60guy]

Greetings, The scanspeak woofer looks a lot like the midrange units Vandersteen uses in the three series speakers. I'd like to get my hands on a pair!