Towers Of Power
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I’ve seen some big towers in my day, but this system is utilizing multiple towers in which many weigh over 1,000lbs each and the total weight is nearly 8,000lbs. For use in a home that borders on complete insanity and instantly evokes a sensation of awe and bewilderment. We love it.
* Each of the three 9′4″ front channels consists of:
- Twenty-four Scan Speak 7″ Kevlar cone mid bass drivers each in their own sealed baffle.
- Four Bohlander Graebner RD-50 planar mid range drivers operating in a dipolar configuration.
- Forty Panasonic EAS 10 Th-400a leaf tweeters, thirty facing to the front and ten facing rearward, and wired out of phase for dipolar radiation.
* Each of the four 7′4″ surround towers consist of:
- Six scan speak 8″ Kevlar cone bass drivers operating from 60 to 500Hz thru a Krell KBX crossover at 12dB per octave.
- Six Scan Speak 5″ Kevlar cone mid drivers operating from 500 to 3500Hz at 12dB per octave. – Six Scan Speak Revelator tweeters from 3500Hz and up at 12dB per octave with a passive crossover between the mids and tweeters.
* 8′ Center Channel:
This horizontal D’Appolito array speaker is identical to the four surround line arrays with the exception that it is in a horizontal configuration at the rear of the room 8 feet above the floor.
* Pair of subwoofer towers:
The two identical subwoofer towers each contain eight 15″ high-excursion, metal cone drivers made by TC Sounds. A pair of Krell FPB 600’s are utilized to drive the towers (one each) with four woofers driven by each side of the amplifiers. The subwoofer towers handle everything below 60Hz for the 3 front and 4 surround towers, and a Krell HTS 7.1 processor provides a 24dB slope.
The creator of these behemoths states, “I feel the possibility still exists to build what you cannot buy, at least in the field of loudspeakers.”
[Cue James Earl Jones voice]If you build it they will come.[/cue]
The creator worked more than 5400 hours over a period of three years from start to finish for construction of the loudspeakers only. That would be 7.5 months if he were work non-stop 24 hour days.
possibly if i had the money and time and space for such a system i’d probaly do it also