Re: Kartesian - The "ported" tweeters are an interesting concept. The idea here is that the tuned chamber is providing a high impedance in the 1-2kHz range which is improving power handling and reducing tweeter excursion in the low end through the crossover region, ie improved low end performance.
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Dang, that coax is a nifty looking unit!
Annoying that it pops up to subscribe to their newsletter everytime you click on something👎🏼
Hmm, I’m subscribed to the newsletter and don’t get the pop up’s. Problem solved I guess..
There’s lots of attractive Kartesian products. They’re expensive but not absurd, nice to see another high end option in the DIY market.
The popup has a "do not show this message again" button.
The first page shows every item "Out of Stock"
Coming soon..
Are those drivers really good? I didn't know about them before this thread.
Yes, very good. You can watch a Kartesian engineer explain loudspeaker design to a simpleton for 1.5 hours in this youtube video
They seem to have fixed the slow loading problem the last version had - that's kind of nice.
Yeah, it's a slightly more functional site than previous. Still sort of meh, but at least it's very snappy to navigate through.
Re: Kartesian - The "ported" tweeters are an interesting concept. The idea here is that the tuned chamber is providing a high impedance in the 1-2kHz range which is improving power handling and reducing tweeter excursion in the low end through the crossover region, ie improved low end performance.
That would be one tiny port.
Yep, well they describe it as a helmholtz resonator, so I would expect that the tweeter housing is still isolated from the speaker cabinet as well.
This guy looks interesting.....
https://solen.ca/en/products/sub120_vhp-8
A subwoofer for ants ?
Would be decent enough for a small 2-way speaker, but like many small systems, will need to throw some power at it.