Fu_man is right... (BD-Design)

by JAM , Thursday, November 29, 2007, 15:49 (5986 days ago) @ GC

Probably way out of topic, but still; Coral Beta 8 was also MY first encounter with building a backloaded horn speaker, and the one that got me hooked on high efficiency and horn speakers in general. And they were cheap too, at that time ('78-'83) we paid approx. 100 Euro for this driver, and only about half of that for the cheaper version Flat 8. That driver also had a white membrane, similar to many of the nice Fostex drivers from that era. I also remember building a mother of a bass reflex system with a Fostex 13" (!) edgeless drivers, terrific build quality, white membrane and enormous magnet system. Can't remember the sound anymore, but the concept of an edgeless driver was increased speed/less distortion by making it easier for the speaker to move.

So Bert, you should be thankful to Coral/Fostex and their partner here in Norway/Denmark at that time, Audioscan, who were very much into DIY and horns/tubes etc. They made these things easily available to us young lions...

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