I would like to say something in general on this subject. However, Golum put it very well. The price unfortunately is not simply X times something but it is a well thought out cost calculation.
On the topic of speakers - 18FH has come a long way, it was created over many years, even decades. The 18FH was a complex project as just for the housing alone we need two months of work, as mentioned earlier, everything is done without screws and only natural glue/white glue is used.
As you may already know (or may not know) from our smaller horn loudspeaker models, we use four different types of wood for our housings, similar to the construction of a musical instrument. The result is a sound body that is one of the key points in this construction.
Speakers can be ordered in all variants, whether veneer, lacquer/veneer combination or a super complex piano lacquer finish - as desired by the customer. As a side note with the Piano Lacquer variant, about 3 more weeks of work is needed. The lacquering, polishing and processing takes about two weeks plus one week drying and we determined these numbers on average from the first 5 delivered pairs of 18FH.
Everything is important.
The technical side is just as complex and of course equality is important as the proper housing. Starting with the compression drivers up to the woofer. As you can imagine, we carefully considered the choice of the Axi driver and we had a free choice of everything the market has to offer in terms of drivers.
We bought an entire arsenal of compression drivers and on top were able to benefit from a wealth of stock from my collection that I collected in the last 35 years. This served as a basis for comparisons and during the development process we developed many prototypes for testing before the final driver was selected and which we now use in this form.
We are developing and manufacturing everything by ourselves or we commission certain parts to our trusted vendors here in Switzerland.
Our loudspeakers are constructed as uncompromisingly as our electronics i.e no capacitors and resistors in the signal path and no crossover, no voltage dividers for the mid-high range, level adjustment for everything analog outside the signal path.
The horn itself is made of a finely crafted alloy, handcrafted like a saxophone or a trumpet
Size/weight wise - dimensions are:
1700mm high x 560mm wide x 620mm deep approx. 120Kg per unit. Wooden packaging and delivery on a pallet incl.
I strongly expect that this year we will have a pair of 18FH ready for demonstration in NY at our distributor:
Destination Sound Group
Long Island New York
+1 631 813 89 92
www.dsgdistro.com
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