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Any mass market speaker with beryllium compression drivers?

Other than JBL’s 10k+ offerings, I can’t seem to find any? The driver is available but seems to be mainly used by the audio integrators?

Beryllium tweeter speakers on the other hand are easy to find (and I have two!)
coli
coli OP
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I was talking about pre-built speakers not the drivers. Quick search yielded  DD67000 and  SK2-3300. Nobody else seems to sell speakers with those kind of compression drivers. Such a shame...
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phusis
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Pre-built Beryllium diaphragm-equipped speakers are also include these:

http://horns.pl/en/speaker-sets/universum-3-way/

The drivers used here are Radian.
melbguy1
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Reference 3a's mid-top level speakers use BE domes & are good value imho. 
audiokinesis
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Sorry I misunderstood you, coli.

You had said "the driver is available but seems to be mainly used by audio integrators", and I thought you were saying that JBL's Beryllium driver could be purchased and used by another manufacturer.

You said that besides JBL,  "Nobody else seems to sell speakers with those kind of compression drivers. Such a shame..."

I know of at least two US companies that build and sell speakers with Beryllium compression drivers.  One is Classic Audio (formerly Classic Audio Reproductions), they've been doing so for many years, before Radian started selling their Beryllium drivers.  Mine is the other company, and I've been offering Beryllium diaphragm compression drivers as an option for about a year now.  

Duke


coli OP
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Interesting, that's good to hear. I hope more active monitors adapt them, especially the 2-way horn/woofer designs, they are the most accurate IMO.
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