All items tagged with dipole (11)

April 15, 2024 by Joao Martins

New Audio Brand Consonus Debuts Tide Speaker System at AXPONA 2024

Inspired by the possibilities to take audio fidelity to unexplored horizons, audio industry professionals Igor Levitsky and Eugene Gribov decided to combine their expertise and passion for audio to create Consonus Inc. The new Englewood, NJ-based company made its effective debut at AXPONA 2024 (April 12-14), with the premier of the Tide speaker system, a unique four-way, fully active design with outboard amplification, combining dipole MF and HF planar ribbons with an open baffle woofer and a sealed subwoofer.

Alta Audio Premieres New Four-way Reference Speaker at AXPONA 2024

April 4, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Alta Audio Premieres New Four-way Reference Speaker at AXPONA 2024

The creation of industry veteran Michael Levy, Alta Audio always offers very unique home audio loudspeakers. For AXPONA 2024, the company is bringing Aphrodite, a new four-way design inspired by the Goddess of Love. Chicago dealer Cinetec will promote a special pre-AXPONA event on April 9 to debut and demo the new reference model in the Alta Audio lineup, and Nexus Audio Technologies, the brand's North-American distributor, will have a dedicate room at AXPONA.

March 13, 2024 by Vance Dickason

Test Bench: The UF295FAS Thin-Profile Dipole 10" Woofer from Neotera

This new 10" thin-profile woofer comes from Neotera, a new company headquartered in Sweden, founded by a diverse group of loudspeaker/electronic design veterans. Maurizio Servadio is the engineer who invented the Neotera Ultraflat technology and is based in Italy where the UF295FAS is manufactured. This thin-profile woofer with a depth of 2.6" and with a low-frequency response down to 29Hz, is specifically designed for dipole system applications. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, November 2023.

Voice Coil November 2023. It's All About the Bass!

October 30, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

Voice Coil November 2023. It's All About the Bass!

From midbass to bass, Voice Coil November 2023 provides the lowdown on some of the loudspeaker industry's most interesting developments. James Croft explores a recently granted "Venturi expander" patent. Mike Klasco explores speaker design and signal processing techniques to achieve more bass, and Vance Dickason characterizes the Wavecor WF152BD09-04 6" midbass driver, and the UF295FAS Ultra Flat Series 10" thin-profile dipole woofer from Neotera.

Radian Audio Introduces LM10n Wide Band Planar Ribbon Transducer at CES 2023

January 4, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

Radian Audio Introduces LM10n Wide Band Planar Ribbon Transducer at CES 2023

Radian Audio Engineering is presenting its latest range of products for the first time at CES 2023, after an intense research and development effort. The company's extended Planar Ribbon range, now offers improved specifications for home audio, home cinema and high end applications. Together with the much improved new-generation Planar Ribbon series, Radian also introduced the largest driver in the family, the wide band LM10n.

Loudspeaker Knowledge Inside and Out in Voice Coil March 2021

February 26, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Loudspeaker Knowledge Inside and Out in Voice Coil March 2021

In this edition of Voice Coil, Steve Temme explains "How to Measure Free-Field Speaker Response without an Anechoic Chamber," Mike Klasco writes about "Plastics and Composites for Audio Products in 2021," and there's an updated Speaker Enclosure Vendor Directory. James Croft provides a fascinating patent review of a speaker assembly design for low-frequency control using an acoustic dipole. And Vance Dickason characterizes two new tweeters: the D2404 Ellipticor Tweeter from Scan-Speak, and the Satori AT60NC-4 AMT Tweeter from SB Acoustics. Now available in print and online!

Resonado Labs Debuts FCS Bidirectional Speaker Driver at CES 2021

January 18, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Resonado Labs Debuts FCS Bidirectional Speaker Driver at CES 2021

Audio technology startup Resonado Labs continues to expand on its patented Flat Core Speaker (FCS) technology, taking on conventional, century-old speaker principles. Evolving on its FCS principles, Resonado debuted a dual-sided speaker driver at CES 2021. FCS Bidirectional allows for a diaphragm to be bonded to both sides of a voice coil. This design offers unique opportunities for very wide sound coverage as well as being particularly well suited for dipole type loudspeaker systems.

Bose Sport Open Earbuds Explore New Truly Wireless Open Transducer Concept

January 6, 2021 by Joao Martins

Bose Sport Open Earbuds Explore New Truly Wireless Open Transducer Concept

Bose announced the new Bose Sport Open Earbuds — truly wireless earbuds that are optimized for sports, fitness and wellness — with a unique design that the Massachusetts company says, feels like "Nothing In Your Ears, Nothing Covering Them." This new "not in-ear" truly wireless design challenges perceptions, in a crowded space mainly competing to be smaller, smarter, and more discreet. But after the Sleepbuds and the Bose Frames, its seems clear that Bose is not afraid of taking risks.

PureAudioProject Announces New Duet15 Prelude Modular Open Baffle Speakers

May 13, 2020 by Joao Martins

PureAudioProject Announces New Duet15 Prelude Modular Open Baffle Speakers

PureAudioProject is a different kind of high-end speaker company taking a modular, semi–DIY approach to open-baffle loudspeakers. Already with a solid reputation after touring high-end audio shows globally, the company offers four basic modular configurations, from which everyone can create their own, personalized system. PureAudioProject speakers are priced very reasonably, but now the company has launched a smaller Duet15 Prelude model, offering an introduction to this fascinating concept.

On Angel’s Wings, Part 2 - A Speaker Design for the Bohlender Graebener RD-75 Planar Magnetic Driver

February 23, 2016 by Thomas Perazella

On Angel’s Wings, Part 2 - A Speaker Design for the Bohlender Graebener RD-75 Planar Magnetic Driver

In January and February 2001, audioXPress included a project from Thomas Perazella, describing in detail the design and construction of a speaker using the Bohlender Graebener RD-75 planar magnetic driver. This is the second part of the project, detailing the final part of the speaker construction, measurements and listening trials.

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