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Manolis Proestakis from Greek have announced his Anima Loudspeakers.

http://www.tuneaudio.gr/

The lead came from Stefano Bertoncello's blog; the picture was taken from there as well.

http://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2009/11/manolis-anima-speakers-at-athens-show.html

The name of the speakers made me to laugh as I in my ultimate phonetic vulnerability have confused it with “enema”. Then I discovered that   Anima is a word from Greek psychology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima

What however I did discovered within myself that the word “enema” is a phenomenal, beyond phenomenal marketing world for audio product.  If I ever produce any commercial audio device then I would LOVE to call it “Audio Enema Reference MK-II”. Please consider the name  Audio Enema™ is trademarked  as my “Audio Demoronizator”

http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Commerce/AD1.aspx

Anyhow, let to be a bit more serious and to look what the Anima Loudspeakers is all about. I have to admit that since the torch of sane sounding horn-loaded loudspeakers nowadays in my hands (among the outspoken people with web presences) I feel sort of an obligation to comment about new interesting species enrolling in my domain.

It is 3-way all-horn loaded. A Titanium 1" compression tweeter in looks like plastic Tractrix 3-5K horn.  Looks like 300Hz wooden Tractrix with 5-inch none-compression driver and 2”-3” throat. Vertical floor-loaded exponential upperbass horn with a 15-inch driver. The upperbass serves as the speaker frame. The crossover is .25K and 1.5K, all first order. The reported sensitively is 107db. Impedance drops to 6.2R.

Anima is an interesting speaker idea but with very many very controversial moments.  When I have time (probably later on this week) I will do a critical write up about some of the Anima’s idea. Meanwhile, feel free to pass your comments about what Anima’s offers, keeping my below linked position about constrictive analyses in perspective:

http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=11790

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