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Gobel and the Bending Wave

An article at Stereophile regarding the Gobel Divin Noblesse speaker caught my eye recently:

https://www.stereophile.com/content/g%C3%B6bel-loudspeakers-cables-engstr%C3%B6m-pre-and-power-wadax...


Jason Victor Serinus made a simple mistake and listed the AMT tweeter as a "bending wave" transducer. He's corrected the error, but the "fix" was just as curious. According to the Gobel website, and JVS's correction, the midrange drivers, which for all the world look like FaitalPro 8" mids to me are "bending wave" transducers in this model.


http://www.goebel-highend.de/products/divin-noblesse.html


These midranges look nothing like the bending wave planar transducers used in the Epoque line, or described by their technology page here:

http://www.goebel-highend.de/technology.html

So, without being able to order and disassemble these $190K speakers, I'm really skeptical that this description of the midrange drivers is accurate.


That is all,

Erik
erik_squires
erik_squires OP
16,676 posts
 
Hey bdp24

This is staring to sound familiar. Honestly, I'm more than a little surprised that this tweeter design didn't last well into the late 20th and early 21st century. I don't remember hearing it, but it's' innovative design should have made it a long lived classic.


Best,

E
jwpstayman
408 posts
 
HI Erik- the bending wave driver IS alive and well.  The original designer of the Lineaum tweeter and later the Impact speakers (Paul Paddock) has designed a HUGELY impressive new speaker called the Forty 10 for a company named MCAudiotech (http://mcaudiotech.com) which I have heard several times and it is VERY impressive indeed.
erik_squires OP
16,676 posts
 
Hello @jwpstayman


Very cool. :) I met the folks from Impact I had no idea there was a connection to the Lineaum.
I like the look of it too, I wonder if you could project images on that screen?

Best,

E
erik_squires OP
16,676 posts
 
Just as I thought we had covered the bending wave speaker in all its commercial forms another vendor, Audionec (yes, NEC, not NET) popped up on my radar.


Pretty impressive designs, especially the modular version.

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews2/audionec/1.html 

File these under #Unaffordable but #Cool and #I_have_not_heard_them

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