Hi guys/gals, another possible immediate buy-upon-lottery win component. This appears to be an assault on the bleeding edge of the SOTA - ALL drivers field coil driven w/Kilimanjaro drivers which emulate the field coils of old, but w/current levels of neutrality and reliability, each driver needing a field coil generator (8 in total in the configuration being shown at the Munich show), open baffle dipole, modularity meaning can add extra driver pairs I guess for in depth bass response.
From what I gather, field coils were the tech of choice back in the day, along w/horns, superseded by conventionally-driven cones as audio became less extreme and had to fit into a domestic environment more easily.
I believe field coils bring a horn-like immediacy, jump factor, neutrality and transparency unmatched by regular cones, esp. in the area of deep bass (I think the Focal Grande Utopia EM is a pace setter w/field coil bass?).
Hence is this going to be the SOTA cone based spkr that matches what the best of horns have to offer, while providing things horns will struggle/fail to match - linearity, continuousness btwn disparate drivers etc.
Being driven by a quartet of 211 SET amps (2 monoblocks/2 heater amps).
One little problem, the price - 350,000 Euros!!! as currently configured.
From what I gather, field coils were the tech of choice back in the day, along w/horns, superseded by conventionally-driven cones as audio became less extreme and had to fit into a domestic environment more easily.
I believe field coils bring a horn-like immediacy, jump factor, neutrality and transparency unmatched by regular cones, esp. in the area of deep bass (I think the Focal Grande Utopia EM is a pace setter w/field coil bass?).
Hence is this going to be the SOTA cone based spkr that matches what the best of horns have to offer, while providing things horns will struggle/fail to match - linearity, continuousness btwn disparate drivers etc.
Being driven by a quartet of 211 SET amps (2 monoblocks/2 heater amps).
One little problem, the price - 350,000 Euros!!! as currently configured.
