A little surprised you chose the 4ohm model tweeer considering the discrepancy in sensitivity between the midrange. I am designing my own DIY texteme system and wondering if you would provide thoughts on this? No worries if you want to keep the secret sauce secretFrom my experience in designing loudspeakers, I personally believe there is a very strong correlation between the IMD performance and some subjective feelings like "Transparency" and "smoothness". It makes sense as IMD is noise and it's inharmonic to the original content.
When comparing the Cadentia 3 and the Fidelia side by side, the first thing that others and I notice is that, although their tonality is very similar, the Cadentia 3 simply sounds cleaner and smoother, and this becomes more obvious at higher SPLs. Back in my time at KEF, I felt the same when comparing the 2-way and the 3-way models too.
By the way, I have made really good progress on producing the first batch (10 sets) of Cadentia 3 orders! They will be shipped this week! And sorry for my delay in email reply recently, I am just completely overwhelmed!
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Thank you very much!
Hi Harry, for those like me who think that an extra woofer is better than a speaker stand, are you planning a tower version (in kit) as well?
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de nada! I look forward to veneering the panels in walnut and doing a careful glue-up.
Already with the Fidelia you hinted a quality that very few competitors grasped - good polars but with a very gradual directivity rise w. frequency. Kudos! Due to size constraints that still had a minor compromise in the slope of the DI, but now you have what can be described as textbook response from this speaker paradigm (the classic rising directivity monopole) that rivals anything in the industry e.g. Revel Ultima series. Just add multisubs for the modal region and you are done.Spinorama:
Wondering if you have already acquired IEC 60268 and/or AES75 linear maxSPL data?
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Kit ordered! Pretty excited to start the project, and will have the time to think about what finish I will do. Also, my plan is to build speaker stands over the next few weeks. Can anyone provide the recommended stand height for the Cadentia 3s?
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Congratulations!
Perhaps measure the height of your ears in your favorite listening position
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Sure - makes sense. Do you or anybody know the tweeter height from the base of the speaker?Congratulations!
Perhaps measure the height of your ears in your favorite listening position
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i compute 15”-16” as a good height for a stand.
It's the normal response of the tweeter (https://sbacoustics.com/product/satori-tw29txn-b-textreme/)
It's quite big and not made of a very hard material, so it's expected to not stay flat very high in frequency
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I'm sure we've all seen by now, but it looks like Erin's targeting EOW for the Cadentia 3 review!
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It’s nice to hear a badass passive speaker that hits all the right notes for me (pun intended). Audio First Cadentia 3 review should be out sometime late nex...
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Squarewave is a highly regarded Hi-Fi dealership in Hong Kong, which I visited quite often back in my audiophile days more than 10 years ago.
I never imagined that one day I would hold my own product launch event here, which happened just yesterday. Everything came full circle. I am gonna be honest that I felt a little bit emotional.
40 people came, and we had to split them into three sessions for the brand introduction and product demo. Although it was a little exhausting, it was such a joy to share the Cadentia 3 and the music I love with them.
We had some in-depth conversations about loudspeaker design in the Q&A session, especially with some customers who are from a professional audio background. I was simply overwhelmed by the positive feedback and their enthusiasm.
It is at this moment that I deeply feel that not only am I doing what I love, but people around the world also love what I am doing.
Now it is time for a little break. I wish everyone a wonderful Christmas holiday. Cheers!
I never imagined that one day I would hold my own product launch event here, which happened just yesterday. Everything came full circle. I am gonna be honest that I felt a little bit emotional.
40 people came, and we had to split them into three sessions for the brand introduction and product demo. Although it was a little exhausting, it was such a joy to share the Cadentia 3 and the music I love with them.
We had some in-depth conversations about loudspeaker design in the Q&A session, especially with some customers who are from a professional audio background. I was simply overwhelmed by the positive feedback and their enthusiasm.
It is at this moment that I deeply feel that not only am I doing what I love, but people around the world also love what I am doing.
Now it is time for a little break. I wish everyone a wonderful Christmas holiday. Cheers!
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Here is the video of the presentation. It is overdubbed in English (though I think a little was lost in translation...)
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Erin's data is now live on Patreon for those who are subscribers. It'll be interesting to see how well his results corroborate Harry's own!
Can't wait to hear Erin's full thoughts, though. Unfortunately, the video publish date is still TBD.
Can't wait to hear Erin's full thoughts, though. Unfortunately, the video publish date is still TBD.
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I'd say you know your skill level best.
I am nothing above an average garage hack woodworker and making the box any size I want would be easy for me.
If you have even minimal skills you should be okay, just take your time and measure 3 or 4 times and cut once so to speak.
I have speakers I made that have ports on the top, bottom even sides, fitting it should be no issue.
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