Test Bench: Scan-Speak Discovery D2604/833000 1″ Wide Surround Silk Dome Tweeter

This Test Bench carachterizes Scan-Speak’s 1″ wide surround silk dome tweeter, the D2604/833000, a high-end home audio driver from their Discovery lineup. The D2604/833000 features a large surround 1″ diameter silk dome, a low 475Hz resonance, CRT shielding, a separate rear chamber, a ferrite magnet motor, an injection-molded faceplate with a five-point mounting configuration, voice coil wound with copper-clad aluminum wire, and gold-plated terminals. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, February 2011.

Audioengine, from Austin, Texas, could very well be called “the sensible audio company” because their products always make sense: they have great design, sound great, are reasonably priced and they match today’s consumer profiles perfectly. Audioengine knows wireless and computer audio well and knows how, increasingly, people listen to music on a desktop or in close proximity to speakers. For that market, Audioengine released a passive version of their HD6 powered speakers.

Introduced at recent shows in US and Europe, the new Denon DN-304SAM high performance monitoring system will be available in Spring 2015 for $149.99. A very affordable price for a powered stereo speaker system able to produce pro-grade sound in a compact footprint.