Hey speedbump6,
Congrats! I think you are in for a treat. How big is your acoustic space and what is your upstream gear?
Congrats! I think you are in for a treat. How big is your acoustic space and what is your upstream gear?
If you love big electrostatic panels, but have a small acoustic space-a speaker for you!
My review on the Shinjitsu Audio Carbon Diasho speaker just went up on the Stereo Times website. As stated in the title of this thread, if you have always loved the sound of big electrostatic panels, but your listening space is small, this speaker will deliver that sonic perspective even though it’s quite minute in size. Beautifully built with an ESS Laboratories AMT and a horn loaded bass driver it does extremely well with both low wattage tube amps, think SET designs, along with sounding excellent with higher powered Solid State amplifiers.
Take a look at the review for all the details and you might be interested in auditioning this speaker with the comfort that you get a 30 day return policy if is not to your personal taste.
Take a look at the review for all the details and you might be interested in auditioning this speaker with the comfort that you get a 30 day return policy if is not to your personal taste.
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Hello! Thanks for the cool reference. The name means "Truth Audio". I wanted to build a speaker brand that reproduced the transient attack and speed of the original music while keeping costs reasonably affordable. It may seem a bit odd to marry a 4 inch driver with a Heil AMT but the speed and light weight of the Fostex driver at under 4 Grams matches the diaphragm speed of the Heil. They hand off to each other at 2 K which maximizes dispersion and widens the listening window. Full range drivers in general tend to beam as the frequency advances beyond say 2 Khz. |
Nice. Great to see it! 40 years building with the Great Heil AMT. I worked at ESS building them on the assembly line. Built several custom versions since. Prefer crossing over at 1,200hz vs 2k to retain Heil midrange magic. Listening to my custom DEC-AMT28 speakers right now with QS Mono 120 Tube amps. :) And, former low watt triode and strapped triode tube amps too. May retest other lower-watt MOSFET SS amps again with Great Heil. FYI, other custom AMT builds by members on AudioKarma, here: https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/custom-built-ess-amt-heil-based-speaker-thread.57722... |
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