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OK, thanks. I would leave for others to decide what the “higher resolution image” might mean. It might be some kind of untranslatable Japanese folklore. The more vibrant color palette is definably a valid accomplishment, no one knows through if it is because the Permendur-made “main body of the yoke” as it might be another set of variant that impact the “color palette” of the Feastrex. However, if you inst that the Feastrex was methodologically-kosher in their research and the different between the old (let call them “color palette deficient drivers)” Feastrex driver and the new “color palette extended” drivers is ONLY in the fact that the new drivers use Permendur-made yoke then I would accepts the defeat of my cretinism and it the new drivers do have better color palette then it would prove your point.

However, this brings another interning angle.  The Feastrex is … 5-6-7-8 inch driver, I do not know, I never seen it specification. Let presume that it is 7” then the voice might be I would say 3”. This would make the “main body of the yoke” to be a cylinder of 3” by I would say 4”. This way the difference between the old $1000 driver and new $40.000 is in the 3” by 4” radial cylinder of Permendur. To make the external pole pieces and the electromagnet cores from Permendur the secretive Japanese Permendur-turners were able for $1000 but to add an additional 3”x4” cylinder they would need extra $39.000? Oh, pas do not insult me with stories about the precession of the surface: the Feastrex is soft-suspended driver that might not by design to use a very narrow gap.

Chris, I agree - I mock you and I do it only with one objective – to ridicule your desire to justify the $40.000 price tag with some kind of objective and rational reasons.  In reality those reasons do not exist and the ONLY reasons why you guys went for $50L range is because you know that spicing your driver with right literature you would be able to go away with it. There is no problem with it BTW but it is nothing then the “fuck off” approach that proposed above.

The point is that Robert above was correct suggest the there is an army full-range fanatics, all of those that I call “yellow drivers” users: Fostexs, Lowthers, Jordans, Feastrex and many others. There is nothing wrong with full-range idea if we make speakers for computer or something to build-it into a communication receiver. The question is why the hell we need a full-range driver if we pursue any more or less full-range sound reproduction? Here is where the fanaticism of full-range driver devotee takes over and they absolutely refuse to recognize the facts. And the facts are that there is a certain stop point from below and above where the use of full-range concept become juts to divesting for results. The very same Feastrex driver might be an excellent MF driver and if it high passed it at let say 500Hz then it might be able to care over 90dB sound pressure. I personally think that the recent tendency of full-range fanatics to go does “better” and “expensive” full-range driver is bad thing. I know that there was another 3” full-range driver at the show that was proposed for $65K. I am not saying that it does not worth it – I say that it worth only as a tribute to fanatism not as a tribute to the actual sound.

The full-range drivers are great what they cost $300 and the entire speaker might be built in home-depot for 20 minutes. As the $50K solution the full-range driver is not only unfortunate but also dangers devise in my view. Let me to explain.  When Feastrex stop to sell your literature and publish the actual data on those drivers (I can believe that you market the sale of the raw drivers for years with no technical data– only the idiocy of DIY community can tolerate it) then one of the parameter will be power handling. This would be very interning to see, even those I would not believe in the number you will publish.  What I mend is that take a LOT of balls to connect $40K drive of medium sensitively to power amp without any high-pass filter.  I have seen how the stupid ceramic woofers were flying away from the speaker with any “puff” from amplifiers. I can give you names of the distributors who replaced many many many of those driver for their customer… in your case it will be $40K per pop… Wait until the hoodlums put OTL amps to drive your Feastrex…

Anyhow, I do feel that accept you guys seriously you need to come up with at least a complimentary bass driver of for your Feastrex. Then you might sell a set for those 50K to whomever like it. To promote a full-range driver for $40K is not what I see rational from consumer perspective.

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