12 inch woofer + 6 inch midrange  + dome tweeter + RIBBON tweeter Curved cabinets. Expensive "High End" Piano finish with many layers of lacquer.

One of the "Hi Fi Myth" is that you need "different" speakers for Home theatre, "different" speakers for Classical music, "different" speakers for Loud Rock music. This is not true !  All of these different "types" have similar requirements. You need brute force to reproduce 22 inch Kick Bass drums or the largest 32 inch timpani or loud explosions and gunfire. Domestic loudspeakers with 5 inch or 6 inch cones are not powerful enough to do this job. Please consider the "Hi Fi Myth" that some 5 inch speakers are better suited for Classical music. If the 5 inch speakers cannot reproduce "22 inch Kick Bass drums" used in "Rock music", how can the 5 inch speaker reproduce the largest "32 inch "Kettle Drums" used in "Classical Music" ?  If the 5 inch speakers cannot reproduce "22 inch Kick Bass drums" used in "Rock music", how can the 5 inch speaker reproduce loud explosion or Gunfire ? It does not matter, if you paid GBP £100 or GBP 3000 for domestic speakers with 5 inch cone or 6 inch cones, they are still too small to "imitate" / accurately reproduce loud explosions and gunfire or 22 inch Kick Bass drums or the largest 32 inch timpani at a "realistic life size" volume in a large room (15 feet or more)

Money back guarantee (less considerable shipping cost, with 30 days) that most people (including experienced valve enthusiast + big ribbon tweeter owners) will prefer this combination of speakers and amplifier to GBP 10000000000 systems hyped up in Hi Fi magazines.

This auction is for the speakers AND our famous "KT88 Triode Connection - High End" that most experienced valve enthusiast will agree sound better than GBP 3000 "Ultra Linear valve amplifiers".

I think that these speakers are TOO REVEALING for "Class B" or "Class A" transistor amplifiers or "Ultra Linear" valve / tube amplifiers.
These VERY REVEALING speakers will expose the inadequate bass slam of the "typical" "Single Ended" valve /tube amplifiers

If you are the ORIGINAL owner of one of our valve amplifiers, and you are definitely going to buy the speakers on 1 month home trial, please tell us, and we can relist the speakers without the amplifier.
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Anybody who has spoken to me will know that I am VERY fussy about speakers.

Anybody talking to me and claiming to own ?high?end? "2 way" speakers with 6 inch woofer + tweeter
will get an explanation of

"If expensive high end 6 inch speakers are so good,
why do the manufacturers make bigger, MORE expensive, speakers ?"

"Are the manufacturers saying that their expensive 6 inch speakers
are better than their MORE expensive speakers with 10 inch or 12 inch woofers ?"
 

MONEY BACK GUARANTEE (LESS SUBSTANTIAL SHIPPING COST, WITHIN 30 DAY) that This combination of speaker and amplifier sounds 1000 times better than the most expensive "2 way" or "2 and half way" 6 inch speakers, hyped up in Hi Fi magazines.

MONEY BACK GUARANTEE (LESS SUBSTANTIAL SHIPPING COST, WITHIN 30 DAY) that This combination of speaker and amplifier sounds 100 times better than the most expensive up "2 way" or "2 and half way" 6 inch speakers + the most expensive "hyped up" subwoofer(s) , hyped up in Hi Fi magazines.

If anybody want me to describe the difference in sound between this combination of speaker and amp versus "2 way " 6 inch speakers + subwoofer, please ask me, but it will be like comparing a 50 c.c. moped with a high performance "no compromise" sports car.
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I auditioned these speakers with our WELL DESIGNED "Triode Connected" amplifiers
I WANT TO STRESS THAT MY COMMENTS ONLY APPLY TO  OUR WELL DESIGNED "TRIODE CONNECTED" VALVE / TUBE AMPLIFIERS OR "300B TRIODE PUSH PULL" VALVE / TUBE AMPLIFIER WITH VERY SWEET TREBLE, WITHOUT LOSING THE TREBLE DETAILS.
My "Golden Ears" think that these speakers are TOO REVEALING for "Class B" or "Class A" transistor amplifiers or "Ultra Linear" valve / tube amplifiers.
These VERY REVEALING speakers will expose the inadequate bass slam of the "typical" "Single Ended" valve /tube amplifiers
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What I am going to write will sound unbelievable, so I better describe the specialized "dedicated" 6 inch midrange speakers. Please forget about the nonsensical hype that you have to make cone out of modern material like carbon fibre or glass fibre or polypropylene or Kevlar®.  When you look at the "Young Modulus" AND density, beryllium (e.g. 3 inch dome in Yamaha NS-1000M) is the best material, and paper is usually the 2nd best.  I do not have the information for all of the modern material , but based on my incomplete information Beryllium and paper are superior to modern materials (that I have data on).

Ignoring some "fashionable" Hi Fi magazines sensationalizing any thing that is new, why do think that modern materials are better than paper ?

Ignoring some "fashionable" Hi Fi magazines sensationalizing any thing that is new, why do think that loudspeaker manufactures have been using paper cones for the last 50 years ?

Ignoring some "fashionable" Hi Fi magazines sensationalizing any thing that is new, why do think that most speaker manufacturer do NOT use carbon fibre, for their EXPENSIVE SERIOUS (over GBP 5000) "High End" speakers ?
 

The 6 inch midrange speakers seem to made of paper.  The rear of the cone is very rough (looks like the very rough sandpaper). This implies that the paper has NOT be pressed very hard, which should produce a thicker cone, which is structurally better (for the same weight) with better damping. The front of the cone is very smooth, and coated with shiny transparent "plastic ky" material , probably to strengthen and dampen the paper.  The "cone surround" looks like a rubber material, which should be very good at absorbing / damping unwanted vibrations. (This is 100 times more sensible than leaving out the cone surround, and forcing the cone to "break up" when producing sound). The cone does not have a dust cap. The pole piece is extended to look like the tip of a 29 millimetre bullet. Presumable this is to help to correct the phase of the sound. Although I like a dust cap to keep out the dust, I can see the advantage if you are designing an "ultimate" midrange. The "typical" dust cap is a different shape / strength to the rest of the cone, so "cone break up" and the :"break up" of the dust cap will be different.  Do away with the dust cap, and you do away with the problem of the "break up" of the dust cap, and you can concentrate on reducing / damping the "cone break up"

I apologize for going on and on this 6 inch "Midrange cone", but if I need to convince you that the midrange is a very complicated design, and explain how the designer is trying to reduce / dampen "cone break up" and achieve "position motion" with a strong and rigid cone, but also low in weight and well dampen  with the "plastic" coating and "rubbery " cone surround and lightly pressed "paper".
, .  This is a stark contrast to OTHER designers who leave out the "rubbery" cone surround, and produce a EXPENSIVE midrange that can only produce sound by "breaking up" the cone !  I strongly recommend that you audition this midrange against EXPENSIVE midrange without "rubbery" cone surround.

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If you can understand what I said about the complicated , sophisticated design of the midrange, you might believe the unbelievable thing that I am about the say ......
Human voice on this sophisticated midrange is 5 times more believable than human voices on my electrostatic spacers (which many people consider to be the best electrostatic speaker) ! Human voice on my electrostatic speakers are good, but it is not 100% believable because my "best" electrostatic speakers are not powerful to reproduce the louder part of a "life size" human voice. The louder part of human voice on my "best" electrostatic speakers just stop getting louder, but does not seem to distort viciously.   Electrostatic speakers are easily damaged by powerful amplifiers. You will notice this AUDIBLE "compression" if you are used to "Studio Monitors".  You will NOT notice this AUDIBLE "compression" if you are used to the "typical" "2 way" 6 inch speakers.
Our 6 inch midranges can EASILY produce "life size" voices at 8 feet WITHOUT ANY AUDIBLE DISTORTION , WITHOUT ANY COMPRESSION.
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The crossover tries to keep bass notes below 150 Hertz away from the 6 inch midrange, so the same proportion of voice coil should stay in the magnetic gap, and keep the distortion low.
The electrostatic field in an electrostatic speakers changes by the square of the distances the moment the diaphragm move, the force changes , so you get a fair amount of distortion.
Subjectively, the specialized 6 inch speakers sound like it has 10 times less distortion than my "best" electrostatic speakers
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Decay (the ending of a musical note).
 One advantage of our "best" electrostatic speakers
 is that sound dies away quickly, But I can still hear the colouration of the diaphragm material, If you take a VERY thin sheet of plastic, and shake it, you get a "Plastic ky sound". I can hear this "plastic ky sound" on my electrostatic speakers.  This "plastic ky" sound" make my "best" electrostatic sound dies away SLOWER than the 6 inch midrange.  The "felted paper" does NOT have an audible "signature". I CANNOT hear the "felted paper' sound of the 6 inch cone.
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Attack, ( the start of a musical note) --- As expected, the attack of my exotic 3 and half inch BERYLLIUM metal cone on my Yamaha NS-1000M m with 3 and half inch voice coil and magnets big enough for a 12 inch woofer  is better than the 6 inch midrange,  But the "attack" of the 6 inch midrange is more than adequate, and produce realistic lifelike sound.
What is surprising is that the attack of the 6 inch midrange is far superior to my "best" electrostatic. In order to get good "attack" the cone must be able to move quickly. this means a light , strong , rigid cone driven by a powerful motor (voice coil). It is true that the diaphragm of my electrostatic speakers are light, but the "motor" of the electrostatic field is rather weak. (Please remember that Acceleration =  Force divided by Mass.)   If you rub a plastic comb though your hair, you can generate sparks, and thousand of volts, and pick up TINY pieces of paper.  The magnet of the 6 inch speakers is powerful enough to pick heavy pliers, small hammer, etc.   Paper is probably the 2nd strongest / most rigid material WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE WEIGHT. ( Beryllium is better.) So the paper cone of the 6 inch cone is more rigid than most of modern materials.  This also helps the attack.
If the cone is too soft, the voice coil could move (by a tiny amount) , and compress / bend the cone material (near the voice coil), so the REST of the cone does
NOT move, so there is no sound.  If the cone is too soft, the voice coil have to move by a reasonable amount, to overcome this "compression/bending" problem, before the cone move to produce a sound. So, you do NOT hear the "start" of the sound from "soft" plastic cones,
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Please forget about the fancy prose of "timing" , "speed" and "depth of imaging"

The most important sound on the CD of your favourite singer is the voice of your favourite singer.

MONEY BACK GUARANTEE (LESS CONSIDERABLE SHIPPING COST, WITHIN 30 DAYS ) THAT THIS COMBINATION OF SPEAKERS AND AMPLIFIER WILL PRODUCE THE MOST BELIEVE HUMAN VOICES THAT YOU HAVE EVER HEARD.

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Hooray, our SMALL ribbon tweeter sound much better than BIG ribbon tweeter !

Most people use tiny 1 inch dome tweeter for the high frequency.
Most people will agree that 5 inch cones are too big for a tweeter.

Like wise, 5 inch ribbon are too big for a tweeter, to reach 20 kilohertz (and beyond, to please some DVD Audio enthusiast), with good dispersion.  (Does the cymbals disappear, if you move your head 3 feet to the left or right or stand up ?) (Is the cymbals too quiet, and should be louder ?)

Please consider the difference between
1. The treble is not irritating, because there is NO treble.
2. The treble is not irritating, because the treble is sweet, without losing the treble detail.

The SMALL 8 millimetres wide by about 2 inch long ribbon sound very good when used with our "Triode Connected" amplifier. But, I suspect that the SMALL ribbon tweeter are "too revealing" for transistor amplifiers or GBP 3000 "ultra Linear" valve / tube amplifiers.
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Bass from the 12 inch woofer is a huge box is very good. Like ALL serious (over GBP 5000) speakers, with extended deep bass, you have to use them far away from the walls. Absolutely no boom, if you pull them far away from the wall. Some speakers with 2 pieces of 6 inch woofer , will boom, to try and impress you with "false" bass. The bas from these 12 inch woofer in huge boxes are very well controlled, absolute no boom, deep, powerful, detailed and you can hear the bass guitar playing a tune, and going up and down the scales. With 6 inch speaker and subwoofer, you have problem telling the difference between a kick bass drum and an electric guitar.  This 12 inch woofer in the huge box makes the difference blatantly obvious.

If you look at the "bass reflex port" you will find a mesh covering the port. The mesh act as a resistance to the air flow, and "dampens the port.  This is not a new idea,  Many years ago, and English manufacturer packed "drinking straw" into the "bass reflex port" to act as "resistor" and dampen the port.  I applause both the speaker designer of both the companies, for taking steps to control any bass boom, with a PRECISE amount of "resistance".  I am less impressed with speaker designer who give you a "foam bung" to ?fix? their boomy bass.
 Unlike some Hi Fi magazines, I am not impressed with loudspeaker manufacturer charging me hundreds of pound for "boomy" speakers, and giving me 20 pence worth of "foam bungs" to TRY and cure design faults, that causes the boomy bass !   I have tried these "foam bungs", and I can assure that 20 pence of "foam bungs" cannot cure the lousy bass !
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I am pleased
If you have heard BIG ribbon tweeter before, and you might like the "not irritating" treble, but

I have to take back some of my rude remarks about 6 inch speakers + tweeter, and say that 6 inch speaker + tweeter is fine JUST AS LONG AS YOU ONLY YOU USE THE 6 INCH SPEAKER FOR UPPER BASS ABOVE 150 HERTZ (and use a 12 inch speakers below 150 Hertz), AND USE A B-I-G-G-E-R 34 MILLIMETRE (instead of the "typical" 24 millimetre) TWEETER TO WORK DOWN TO 2200 HERTZ (because 6 inch speakers have problems in achieving a FLAT frequency response to 7000 Hertz , which about twice the "typical" crossover frequency)
 

I auditioned these speakers with our WELL DESIGNED "Triode Connected" amplifiers
I WANT TO STRESS THAT MY COMMENTS ONLY APPLY TO  OUR WELL DESIGNED "TRIODE CONNECTED" VALVE / TUBE AMPLIFIERS OR "300B TRIODE PUSH PULL" VALVE / TUBE AMPLIFIER WITH VERY SWEET TREBLE, WITHOUT LOSING THE TREBLE DETAILS.
I think that these speakers are TOO REVEALING for "Class B" or "Class A" transistor amplifiers or "Ultra Linear" valve / tube amplifiers.
These VERY REVEALING speakers will expose the inadequate bass slam of the "typical" "Single Ended" valve /tube amplifiers