Æquo Audio Ensis
6moons audioreviews: Æquo Audio Ensis
(Don't read too seriously as it's sprinkled with Srajan's mumbo-jumbo technical mish-mosh.)
Summary:
Narrow and short cabinet made from curved inert materials
1 inch special SB29RDC ring tweeter and 6 inch cone in sealed cabinet, passively crossed-over w 100Hz high pass, easy load for your amp
10 inch woofer (with 50mm! xmax p-p?) in sealed cabinet, with built-in active xo, 500W class D nCore (Bruno Putzeys) amp and analog bass control
Small is in...
6moons audioreviews: Æquo Audio Ensis
(Don't read too seriously as it's sprinkled with Srajan's mumbo-jumbo technical mish-mosh.)
Summary:
Narrow and short cabinet made from curved inert materials
1 inch special SB29RDC ring tweeter and 6 inch cone in sealed cabinet, passively crossed-over w 100Hz high pass, easy load for your amp
10 inch woofer (with 50mm! xmax p-p?) in sealed cabinet, with built-in active xo, 500W class D nCore (Bruno Putzeys) amp and analog bass control
Small is in...
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I was offered a restoration job infinity RS-1b set back in 1997. I turned it down when I realised that, as soon as I moved back to UK I would never have a big enough room for them. shame as they really did look the biz and were cheap as the previous owner had been an idiot and modified them with no understanding.
It's just so damn hard to clone a top shelf speaker system. How do you get the drivers for starters?
Where do you get the infomation to exactly replicate the crossovers?
Then there is the cabinet work. I have a pair of Everest DD6700 cabinets and there are very few shops that would be capable of truly recreating them. They are very very complex.
I am a DIY guy through and through but at some point one must realize there is only so far one can really go because if you can't exactly clone them, you don't really have them.
I have several DIY speaker systems but, none do so much as well as my real SH50's or my 4365's.
Don't think I am trying to rain on DIY, I am not but I would bet there is only a small fraction of a percent of the most serious enthusiasts capable of approaching the work of the big guys. As an example it would take an new engineer years at a facility like Harman working full time to just catch up to the likes of Timbers, Olive and Morro and longer before he/she were to advance the state of the art.
I thought I was getting somewhere and then I brought home the 1400 Arrays and I realized where I really was. Even the 4365's are not top shelf but they are way out in front of my abilities and I susspect the DD6700's are going to drive the education fully home. I have much to learn.
I get a laugh when I see the posts saying "I can beat the big guys at a fraction of the price! Sorry, no you can't, not their top teir work. You might get close, maybe.
Barry.
Where do you get the infomation to exactly replicate the crossovers?
Then there is the cabinet work. I have a pair of Everest DD6700 cabinets and there are very few shops that would be capable of truly recreating them. They are very very complex.
I am a DIY guy through and through but at some point one must realize there is only so far one can really go because if you can't exactly clone them, you don't really have them.
I have several DIY speaker systems but, none do so much as well as my real SH50's or my 4365's.
Don't think I am trying to rain on DIY, I am not but I would bet there is only a small fraction of a percent of the most serious enthusiasts capable of approaching the work of the big guys. As an example it would take an new engineer years at a facility like Harman working full time to just catch up to the likes of Timbers, Olive and Morro and longer before he/she were to advance the state of the art.
I thought I was getting somewhere and then I brought home the 1400 Arrays and I realized where I really was. Even the 4365's are not top shelf but they are way out in front of my abilities and I susspect the DD6700's are going to drive the education fully home. I have much to learn.
I get a laugh when I see the posts saying "I can beat the big guys at a fraction of the price! Sorry, no you can't, not their top teir work. You might get close, maybe.
Barry.
Yep, I agree with everything you say.
The best thing a diyer can do Is to compare their design to a good quality commercial design. It can be a bit depressing but It does bring you back down to reality.
bass to mids to highs is 16<160<1600<16000 Hz
so much for importance od exotic 160 000 Hz tweeters
I agree that an average DIYer can't beat the craftmanship of a multi million dollar company that employs dozens of people but there is far greater chance of beating them sound wise. Remember, companies make their own drive units not because these are better than off the shelf ones, it's simple economics, and secondly companies really fancy not the idea that DIY market niche has the potential to significantly reduce their income. Proof, Dynaudio stopped selling drive units to DIYers (8 ohm) in year 2000, after that Focal did the same.
@ Erik: Thanks for the kind words.
It is not DIY but if you are in the UK its not so expensive to buy a broken set on ebay and send them to quad for a refurb.
Apart from the step up transformers, making electrostatics is not too hard.
But go to this forum www.diyaudio.com/forums/planars-exotics/ to get started.
Dunno list on the Danley's (BTW kudos for heaving them into the living room). but the 4365s are in the region of what I would call affordable. You can probably by the parts and build your own active 4365s if you were good at the woodwork, but if you had to pay a cabinet maker the $15k a pair is probably good value for the performance. Certainly compared to shiny shiny at 10x that price. Likewise the M2.
Would agree most of us (one or two on here are exceptions) cannot design a horn that would work as well as JBL can.
But if you can get to 90% of SOTA with $1000 investment you will still cream anything commercial in the 5-7k range if you know what you are going. its that last bit that is the killer!
Going by the 'super high end' (pricewise) speakers that are stuck in my mind and what is on offer at higherfi I have to say that there are hardly any i would want to replicate for a variety of reasons.
I wouldn't bet that you could buy any of the parts used in the 4365, and if you could, they would run you a lot more than $1000.
Uhmm...why would one want to replicate a JBL 4365 !?
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For 5000$ you can have a brand new pair with genuine italian drivers
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For 5000$ you can have a brand new pair with genuine italian drivers
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Max 1 - Unison Research - Official Website
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