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Today Iain showed me a photograph of Tom Danley standing next to the new ILE speakers ( pictured above) they are taller than he is and he is not short ,they are massive!
Quad 15” by the looks of it. Those are then probably coaxial compression drivers with a series of layered combiners (aka paralines), otherwise they will not go this low. They’ll probably need to go down to 300 Hz or so.There are three in the Hyperions HF/Mid/upper bass and then the twin 15” bass drivers,
Ah, it’s coaxials again. That makes it even more interesting! An X-ray view like for the Hyperion would be coolSo it is a 3-way. I wonder how the 5” woofers are fed into the layered combiner?
So it is a 3-way. I wonder how the 5” woofers are fed into the layered combiner?
Aren't those the same?It's not a layered combiner, it's a Paraline.
Any idea how these things look with the coaxial mounted on them?Both of the "Signature" speakers are based on existing DSL speakers.
Here's a video I recorded of the DSL SBH speakers, which use a series of Paralines loaded by a prosound coax. The ILE speakers use a series of Paralines loaded by a prosound coax.
Apologies for the crummy quality, YouTube bitrate is 128kbps:
Yeah, I know about that one, but that patent does not seem to cover coaxial drivers though.If it's using the existing Paraline design, it looks like what's in the patent:
US8259981B2 - Horn-loaded acoustic line source - Google Patents
A sound reproduction system is disclosed in which a sound enclosure defines a soundwave path having a first end, a second open end and at least one bend therebetween. At least one driver is provided at the first end for producing a driver soundwave that is confined by the sound enclosure for...patents.google.com