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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker
Post Subject: I like it.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 5/15/2013
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Hm, I like the Cessaro thinking a few years back and I love it now. A very good move with this “Liszt” loudspeakers, even I am against the idiotic tendency to grand to the audio element the composers names.  Take a look what Cessaro did.

A tweeter, probably TAD 10K range in some kind of fast opening horn. A Midrange driver, probably at 350Hz TAD with La-Horn. Instead of upperbass channel then went for some kind of 11“ direct radiator, probably in sealed enclosure. The Midbass and lower bass is handled by active twin of 12” drivers. It is unknown if it is ported bass, some kind of horn-loaded bass or Cessaro slightly tweaked the enclosure and bass drivers operation toward to the tapped horn situation.  The holes are too large to be tapped horns or bass reflexes and too small to be horns.  If they are horns then I see no more than 80-90Hz from top and bottom horn. I do not see on the picture clearly if the surface above is exit similar to the bottom. If it is just bottom horn then the have 140 Hz of horn lading and the rest is just the sewer pipe sound. Perhaps they play somehow with resonances and made second mouth opening in the back as the volume of the box is too big to be wasted for pure sewer pipe type of horn. If they have two openings up and down, the bottom act as port and the top with smaller opening as taped horn then it very cool idea. To make that all to sound balance, to hide the problem of the underdeveloped horn, ports, not so perfect drivers and so on… is complicated task and I hope that Cessaro did something in this direction. I like what they are trying to build but I do not know what would make the home signature Cessaro sound. So, it would be very hard to comment about it.

Anyhow, at 100dB sensitively it might be a very silk define and  look forward to hear what they implemented under the hood.

The Cat

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