Recent content by Steve Huntley -Avalon

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    Avalon Tesseract

    Thanks for the follow up questions on Tess. Design decisions like this were based on a huge number of factors…all very carefully weighed. A massive linear power supply to drive a 3.2kW amplifier circuit in each speaker would actually be counter productive since those amplifier circuits are...
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    Avalon Tesseract

    All elements in Tesseract are task specific and integral to the design. The powered low frequency section is fully analog with active manipulation of phase, damping, and frequency domain characteristics; no DSP is involved. The amplifiers are a fully push-pull class A/B output stage with...
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    Tesseract, an overview from an Avalon insider's perspective

    There is a top cabinet (Mid-bass, midrange, tweeter) and the sub cabinet on the bottom. They ship separately. A pair of Tesseracts come in 4 crates.
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    Tesseract, an overview from an Avalon insider's perspective

    I guess you are right about that. :o:o Bad choice of words in making the point. Wont be the last time I step in it here I suppose:b
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    Avalon Saga & new Sentinel

    Robert, I'm responding here to to your questions that were in a different thread where you asked: "It's great to see the advancement Avalon has made in speaker design,but what can you tell us about the upcoming Sentinel update and the New Saga speaker": "1.Will it incorporate tesseract...
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    Introducing myself...the "new guy" at Avalon. Happy to be helpful if I can.

    Hi Robert, if you don't mind I'll post my response to this shortly in the thread on Sentinel and Saga. Probably most helpful for it to be there.
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    Tesseract, an overview from an Avalon insider's perspective

    Including your pair, or not? :) We're still filling the pipeline. There are a half dozen pairs scattered all over Asia, a pair on display in Russia with our distributor there, I forget where the next pair is going. We build them about as fast as we can (a couple months for each pair) and they...
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    Tesseract, an overview from an Avalon insider's perspective

    Hello Peter, some things aren't exactly accurate in the rendering (the drivers are wrong, the bases aren't the correct size, you don't see any braces from the base to the speaker, etc) but it's close enough for this discussion. The top cabinet has spikes that go into receiver cups that are...
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    Tesseract, an overview from an Avalon insider's perspective

    I wish I did. So many different measurements were made in that development process that I'm sure Neil couldn't wait to delete that stuff from the computer (and probably had to, just to make room for other things I'm sure). Can always do something fresh but we don't have anything but other...
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    Tesseract, an overview from an Avalon insider's perspective

    Meant "3D" world :-)
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    Tesseract, an overview from an Avalon insider's perspective

    Indeed the inspiration for the name was the geometric form. Tesseract indeed is 4D analog of a cube...or more metaphorically, an extra-dimensional object that has been projected into our #D world. Avalon designs have always considered the sound waves that are coming back at the speakers (a big...
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    Tesseract, an overview from an Avalon insider's perspective

    Quite a few different brands of electronics get used in the development and voicing of speakers at Avalon. There is a pretty nice array of gear to use to be sure the speakers play well with all kinds of things. One technical point I failed to make earlier that I think you guys might find...
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    Tesseract, an overview from an Avalon insider's perspective

    Thanks to those of you that have kept this positive. As I stated, going forward i'll try to stick to facts and keep my opinions to myself. Seems silly to me given the name of this forum, but whatever. Peace! Rob, it was a true pleasure having you visit with Neil and I. Great fun. I may indeed...
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    Tesseract, an overview from an Avalon insider's perspective

    Feel free to visit the Avalon Facebook page for some recently posted photos of Tess in a listening room in Taiwan. I'm not sure if it's allowed for me to provide links. Again, just trying to be helpful here. I'll keep my opinions to myself as much as possible going forward. Would be great if...
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    Tesseract, an overview from an Avalon insider's perspective

    Happy to consider the possibility of a special listening session at some point for members of this forum. So far Tess listening sessions at the factory in Boulder have been on an individual invitation basis but I could work on putting something together for a group at some point if there is...
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