3 WAY SPEAKER ENCLOSURE DESIGN DRIVER
Having a driver in between would simply make the sound less coherent, less seamless. A good vintage woofer can easily cross over to a horn at 800 or 1200 Hz. The vintage woofer is more efficient (99 dB for example) and super-fast it can blend seamlessly with a lightning fast horn/compression driver. These woofers have little in common with a modern era 15” woofer with a heavy synthetic cone. The key is the “vintage paper cone” part. There are many, myself included, who consider a 2-way or 3-way with 15” vintage paper cone woofer to be more musical than a 2-way bookshelf or slim modern speaker.
3 WAY SPEAKER ENCLOSURE DESIGN MANUAL
To learn more about the F208 and F206 floorstanding loudspeakers, please read the Owner's Manual located in the downloads section.Your premise is flawed. The magnetic grille attachment method completely eliminates ugly hardware on the loudspeaker baffle, so if you decide to use the loudspeakers without grilles they will look like they were designed to be used without grilles. The loudspeaker grilles are designed to minimize sonic diffraction or veiling and provide a clean, subtle appearance. These beautiful, modern enclosures are finished in high-gloss piano black or genuine American walnut in a process (developed and overseen by Italian luxury cabinet makers) that exceeds automotive finish quality. They feature strategically-oriented bracing that eliminates the possibility of enclosure-induced coloration. These fully-curved enclosures are inherently stiffer than conventional box shapes and are formed with contiguous wood layers that prevent splitting. The F206 is housed in enclosures that are similar to our flagship Ultima2 Series. In fact, this new waveguide actually increases the tweeter’s dispersion at higher frequencies. This gives the loudspeaker very smooth sound far off-axis – an important contributor to overall sound quality, providing consistent sound over an exceptionally wide listening area.
The tweeter’s integrated acoustic lens waveguide is based on a breakthrough mathematical approach that accurately matches the tweeter’s dispersion to that of the midrange transducer in the crossover region. The F208 and F206 tweeter has been created around a newly-designed motor and dome assembly that sets a new standard of transparency for speakers anywhere near the Performa3’s class. The front-firing port location expands the speakers’ installation options.
This greatly minimizes dynamic compression and port-generated noise, assuring low-distortion low-frequency performance. These loudspeakers employ a sophisticated fluid-model designed low-frequency port with identical flares on both ends. Their cast aluminum frames eliminate another source of resonances that is common in many lesser-quality loudspeakers. These precision transducers utilize ribbed aluminum cones for ideal piston-like behavior that eliminates a major source of resonances that are clearly audible in most other loudspeakers. Revel F206's low-frequency and midrange transducers feature distortion reduction mechanisms that stabilize the flux field during operation, assuring low distortion even at high listening volumes. They deliver an impressive combination of wide frequency range, uncompressed dynamic range and low distortion across the entire audible spectrum. Revel Performa3 floorstanding loudspeakers are true full-range loudspeakers that feature small footprints and sleek designs, allowing them to blend-in easily with your existing décor.