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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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
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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