New Speaker, Headphone, and Earphone Perspectives with Voice Coil January 2022

We're off to a great start in 2022. Starting with details about the promise of Iron Nitride (FeN) magnets, followed by an article about Liquid Injection Molding Silicon for Next-Generation Headphone Surrounds. Next up, James Croft reviews a surround speaker patent granted to Klipsch, and Vance Dickason characterizes the Satori MW13TX-4 TPCD-cone woofer from SB Acoustics and the high-power WF275BD01 10.75" woofer from Wavecor. All articles now available to read online, PDF and print.

Perlisten Audio, the audio company founded by an all-star team of audio industry professionals in direct cooperation with THX Ltd., the audio and video certification and technology company, announced the seventh model in its cutting-edge lineup. With the new S7i (SRP: $7,495 each), Perlisten introduces the world's first in-wall speaker to achieve THX Certified Dominus status. The new speaker, scheduled to ship November 2021, features the same advanced technologies as the company's flagship S7t tower speaker.

This Test Bench article characterizes the SB Acoustics Satori MW16TX-8 TeXtreme Cone 6.5” Woofer, the third diaphragm transducer in Test Bench using this material, following the Eminence N314X-8 compression driver, and the SB Acoustics TW29TXN-B-4 dome tweeter. TeXtreme diaphragms are definitely finding acceptance among loudspeaker manufacturers. The MW16TX-8 is part of the SB Satori line of high-end transducers and has a substantial feature set. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, June 2021.