Cube Audio Nenuphar Single Driver Speaker (10 inch) TQWT Enclosure


Cube Audio (Poland) designs single drivers and single driver speakers. 

Principals are Grzegorz Rulka and Marek Kostrzyński.

Link to the Cube Audio Nenuphar (with F10 Neo driver) speaker page: 

https://www.cubeaudio.eu/cube-audio-nenuphar

Link to 6Moons review by Srajan Ebaen (August 2018):

https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/cubeaudio2/

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Parameters (from Cube Audio):

Power: 40 W

Efficiency: 92 dB

Frequency response: 30Hz - 18kHz ( 6db)*

Dimensions: 30 x 50 x 105 cm

Weight: 40 Kg


* Frequency response may vary and depends on room size and accompanying electronic equipment.
david_ten
cal,
I suspect that the F4s would quite likely work out well with the Nenuphar. I'm somewhat surprised you preferred them over the Atma-sphere M60s and the Pass Labs XA 25 with your speakers.  I get that the Frankenstein's 8 watts isn't enough for your PRE. The Frankenstein would very likely be an excellent match with the Nenuphar. 
Charles 
Me too Charles, me too. I would never have believed it if I hadn’t heard it with my own ears. I blame it on the transparency of the f4 paired with a second harmonic distortion character (w almost no 3rd and vanishing amounts of higher order harmonics)...

And, totally agree that the Franks should be just spectacular on the cube audio drivers. Wish I could have afforded to store mine for just such an occasion. As you know, I absolutely adored my pair...

(Incidentally, I just bought some .9999 solid core silver speaker cables based on an old comment of yours that had been rattling around in my head... Just as you said, putting in silver added beautiful, natural refinement to the system with no drawbacks over my previous duelund tinned copper. So happy I remembered reading the suggestion from years ago. I already had Occelia silver interconnects based on your recommendations, but am planning to rewire my amp, pre, and speakers to take it all the way through.)
@cal3713 Thanks for the offer, unfortunately I’m in S. CA.
I am confident that my current amp will sound wonderful with the Nenuphar... may not be match made in heaven, but at probably heaven on earth none the less.

From Cube Audio website, there’s mention that most solid state amp will match well, so I’m going to go with that for now until I can listen for myself:

" The Nenuphars are dedicated for rooms of 20 - 40 square meters (my living room is 30 sq meters). They are a perfect match for a tube amp with at least 3 Watts per channel. Our personal preference is somewhere around 2A3, Px4, 45 tube-based amps. Nonetheless, most solid-state amps (especially those working in A-class) are also an amazing match for the Nenuphars. When it comes to placement, they can be placed both forward and placed right against the back wall. They like about 5-10 degrees of toe-in. "
@nitewulf   Yes, I moved to the Nenuphars being driven by Scott Shaeffer's Found-Music 2A3 monoblocks a year ago.

I still have my T+A PA 3100 HV and the Tekton DI SEs.
@khragon Both of your amps will work. As Charles, @cal3713 and @toetapaudio mention, it will be interesting which of the two you prefer. If you bring in other amps to audition it should get very interesting. : )

I have driven the Nenuphars with the T+A PA 3100 HV and the sound is very good but not to the level of where it is with the 2A3s. Of course, my personal tastes need to be factored in. Given my system changes since, I need to audition it again and I plan to once a soon to be delivered component is fully run in.

As an example, I believe @toetapaudio is very happy with the Nenuphars and Nenuphar Minis being driven by his Bakoon amp (Dawid had the same amp on hand but doesn’t mention trying it in his review...which may have been a mistake... based on Robert’s findings).