you're kidding, right? your cel phone or standing next to a leaky microwave are more likely to cause health issues
Probably from same plant(s) that were assembling the previous several generations of budget series FE / FF drivers . FWIW the last Fostex drivers I recall seeing labelled as "Japan" were Sigmas, F120A and long discontinued FW227 woofers.
OT to this query, while stumbling around the corporate site, I ran across this rather interesting gadget:
New Headphone Amp and DAC - Fostex News
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.
Well from the excessive caution department I'll pose the following question:
Would you get a product labeled "Made in Chernobyl?"
Should this bother me? Well I'm not a parent and have no kids or a wife expecting around here. The best cautionary statement I've heard so far is "there is no safe level of radiation."
Maybe just a Mark Audio instead. I don't raise the issue to be divisive on DIY audio. But when the issue of Japan as a source is concerned, my antennae go up.
Would you get a product labeled "Made in Chernobyl?"
Should this bother me? Well I'm not a parent and have no kids or a wife expecting around here. The best cautionary statement I've heard so far is "there is no safe level of radiation."
Maybe just a Mark Audio instead. I don't raise the issue to be divisive on DIY audio. But when the issue of Japan as a source is concerned, my antennae go up.
Here in Italy in these days ,they're throwing away tons of vegetables just because some people are scared of what happened in Germany ...for the bacteria .
Also to bemoan is the lack of a sleeve in the motor- look at the inductive rise compared to the 85k
Well it surpised me to see a diffrent surround foam of all things?I wonder what happend to the cloth surround? I wonder if fostex is going to replace one day all of there drivers surrounds with foam? Also I would like them to give me a little more for the money. Better fame,magnet,surround,coil,spiders and xmax. I know if I shoped around I could find a better drive. Fostex needs to step up and show us there true colors. I know they are not new at this. I thought they would have by now done some new research and redesigning on the Fe speakers. My fav. of all the fostex is the fe 206e. Amazeing driver in a open baffle. Very peaky and bright but, spooky real with voices a killer.
FExx6En still have cloth. FFxx5K were all foam. The FF85 was UDR (ie from a sigma) all the others an inverted half roll. The new ones all have positive half-roll (sticks out, not something i like to see, byt F120A, FX120 had that), Surround foam, from description, sounds like an advancement.
But:
dave
But:
dave
that must be what got Geoff - probably also suffered from RSI from too much mousing and clicking (hint - trying left hand mousing for a refreshing change - some things are just right-hand work)
now as far as latest FR offerings from Fostex, fairly soon we should start to hear anecdotal reports of their performance - "lackluster" engineering aside, they could pleasantly surprise us, and it's certainly great to have more rather than less choices in this category
Dave: careful with use of the words "lots of small nukes" . There are of course several more "alternative energy" sources (wind, solar, tidal, etc.) but all will have some environmental impact in development of the physical infrastructure or distribution systems.
Last edited:
FF165WK appears to be quite BR friendly, especially compared to the previous "K" version.
jeff
Last edited:
And most resonant free of all family. Should be very good with 1 order LPF and a cheap NEOCD3.5H ribbon above
did you meant this one?
http://www.madisound.com/pdf/fostexcabs/fe126e_encl.pdf
if not already answered, I built a pair of those a few years ago, and to be as polite as possible, they weren't great
...Madisound already sold out of the Fostex FF125WK...the only seemed to last a couple days....what gives?
They were backordered -- none have arrived on these shores. If they got any i'd have some, ordered mine some 3 months ago.
dave
dave
They look very interesting, very modern appearance. I think it is a shame that they cannot use a circular basket 'flange' so they can be recessed easily with a router like the Mark Audio or Visaton B200.
There is a thread on flush mounting non circular frames on DIY here. Use search for
"flush mounting... the whole story." It can be done with a router but a pattern has to be created.
Got my 85wk... will take pics later. Cone & cap are interesting. Still not thrilled about the outie surround. Magnet is smaller.
dave
dave
- Status
- Not open for further replies.