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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver?
Post Subject: About the diaphragms cult.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 7/11/2011
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 zako wrote:
THE ONLY COMPANY THAT HAS ADVANCED THE DESIGN OF A MODERN DRIVER IS JBL,,, GOING FROM THE WESTERN ELECTRIC DESIGN TO THE 375,,376...PRO VERSION 2440,,2441...  TO the 2450 types..USEING COHERIENT PHASE PLUG DESIGN TOPOLIGY that unit was adapted to the new 475..476 ultimate PHASE COHERIENT PLUG DESIGN AND USEING BERYLLIAM DIAPHRAMS...    TAD HAD TO REDESIGN THE 4001 driver to the new 4003 driver,,REDESIGNING there PHASE PLUG (5 slit configuration) TAD BERYLIAM MANUFACTURE IS DONE DIFFERENTLY THAN LANSING,, TO KEEP UP WITH JBL,,,JBL HAS ALSO DONE A SMALLER VERSION,,WITH TAD FOLLOWING,,     BRUSH WELMAN,,TRUEXTANT is now making BERYLIAM diaphrams to be used in earlier older JBL UNITS,,,($700 each)  JBL IS NOW MAKING A MAGNESIUM DIAPHRAM for the 476, YOU CAN ORDER either type of diaphrame,,BUT driver are costly..  I FEEL THE NEW VITAVOX S2 is a none starter in design,,  BUT MAYBE BRUSH WELLMAN WILL MANUFACTURE A Be diaphran to fit...

Yes, the diaphragms are tremendously important in compression drivers and since ordinary people in their basements would hardly be able to make diaphragms many audio people attribute to diaphragms some kind of intrinsic quality.  They feel that “special” quality of diaphragms defines Sound. Unfortunately it is only partially true. The truth is that in the park of existing drivers and the existing diaphragms the selection of diaphragms does defines now the driver will sound. However, the characteristics of diaphragms are very much related to the entire driver design and if the driver is designed from scratch then in the first place come not the selection of exotic material for diaphragms or exotic material for suspension but rather a correspondence of diaphragm design to the driver design. Very few, if any, have luxury to be flexible and creative in those experiments and practice.  

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