Hi everyone,
I’ve published a new 2-way design for those who are interested in a small form factor stand-mount loudspeaker.
The Kensho Two – M2
“Kensho” is Japanese for “seeing nature.” It means seeing one’s true nature; perceiving the self, but can also in Zen Buddhism mean “a brief experience of enlightenment”.
This loudspeaker is a small 2-way using a 5” mid-woofer and a horn-loaded ribbon tweeter in an 8 liter enclosure. As an option the loudspeaker can be built using an 11 liter enclosure.
The horn-loaded ribbon tweeter has its own very unique sound character and it blends nicely with the mineral filled Polypropylene cone mid-woofer.
This moderate priced loudspeaker performs very well and it delivers a very generous soundstage with a large height, width and depth perception.
I love using it with my 35W tube amp, which can play it strong with authority and without problems.
If you hate ribbon tweeter sound – don’t read any further – This loudspeaker will give you plenty of “ribbon” sound.
For details see:
Kensho Two – M2
Regards
/Göran
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Very nice looking! I'm always on the lookout for a 5" or so woofer with low enough bass to use in a home theater, but that minimum impedance is a challenge to use.
Also, very nice phase matching at and above the crossover section!
What did you end up using for acoustic offsets?
Also, very nice phase matching at and above the crossover section!
What did you end up using for acoustic offsets?
That's a measurement secret...🙂
Kidding!
The drivers relative acoustical center off-set is -18mm @ 2.5m for the mid-woofer at tweeter hight with a center to center distance of 130mm.
With other words the ribbon tweeter is 18mm behind the mid-woofer.
In order to partly compensate for that I use an electrical fourth-order cross-over section for the mid-woofer.
The horn mounting of the ribbon tweeter is the reason for the deep acoustical center of the tweeter and a 6 or 8" woofer would perhaps be a perfect match considering this, but then you would have a problem with the high cross-over frequency requirement of the ribbon tweeter.
This ribbon tweeter requires an acoustical fourth order cross-over with a cross-over frequency of 3kHz or higher in order to work properly considering the distortion profile.
/Göran
Interesting! I have often wondered about using a ribbon or tweeter with a waveguide and whether that could be used as a lazy person's way of getting time-coherent step response.
Seems like it's still challenging. 🙂
Thanks for that!
Erik
Seems like it's still challenging. 🙂
Thanks for that!
Erik
Hi everyone,
I’ve published a new 2-way design for those who are interested in a small form factor stand-mount loudspeaker.
The Kensho Two – M2
“Kensho” is Japanese for “seeing nature.” It means seeing one’s true nature; perceiving the self, but can also in Zen Buddhism mean “a brief experience of enlightenment”.
This loudspeaker is a small 2-way using a 5” mid-woofer and a horn-loaded ribbon tweeter in an 8 liter enclosure. As an option the loudspeaker can be built using an 11 liter enclosure.
The horn-loaded ribbon tweeter has its own very unique sound character and it blends nicely with the mineral filled Polypropylene cone mid-woofer.
This moderate priced loudspeaker performs very well and it delivers a very generous soundstage with a large height, width and depth perception.
I love using it with my 35W tube amp, which can play it strong with authority and without problems.
If you hate ribbon tweeter sound – don’t read any further – This loudspeaker will give you plenty of “ribbon” sound.
For details see:
Kensho Two – M2
Regards
/Göran
Hi Göran, I this is an old thread, I'm curious which do you prefer the Kensho Two -M3 or M3?
Both seem like they would make great candidates to convert to a 3 way with Jeff Bagby's SB acoustics woofer module, what do you think?
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