Cube Audio Nenuphar Single Driver Speaker (10 inch) TQWT Enclosure


Cube Audio (Poland) designs single drivers and single driver speakers. 

Principals are Grzegorz Rulka and Marek Kostrzyński.

Link to the Cube Audio Nenuphar (with F10 Neo driver) speaker page: 

https://www.cubeaudio.eu/cube-audio-nenuphar

Link to 6Moons review by Srajan Ebaen (August 2018):

https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/cubeaudio2/

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Parameters (from Cube Audio):

Power: 40 W

Efficiency: 92 dB

Frequency response: 30Hz - 18kHz ( 6db)*

Dimensions: 30 x 50 x 105 cm

Weight: 40 Kg


* Frequency response may vary and depends on room size and accompanying electronic equipment.
david_ten
I love single-driver and coaxial speakers and have owned several.  IMO whizzer cones are a compromise and cause as many problems as they try to solve.  Ex: (again IMO) the Omega 3 series sounds much better than the larger drivers.  But they won't play as loud or as low.  The Coherent line from Canada uses a different approach with it's Radian coaxial works great and doesn't suffer any "whizzer tizz." 

Admittedly I have not yet had a chance to hear a pair of Cube Audio speakers but will at the first possible opportunity.

@br3098 
You absolutely  right, whizzer is anachronistic part from  cinema era  and 
I don't now why is came to  High End. How you compare the high quality 
tweeters to whizzer cone ?
I wouldn’t make the assumption that the Cube Audio Nenuphar suffers from some "common" whizzer limitation. Based on all accounts I’ve have been exposed to the Nenuphar is in a completely different category of performance/design success. Generalizations don’t apply here.
Charles
All speaker designers know what their speakers are and are not capable of, and all speakers are a collection of compromises.  There is no perfect speaker - that's why there are so many speaker types on the market.

Whizzer cones are a useful tool to help redirect and disperse the high frequency energy from a single driver speaker.  That's fine, but ALL whizzer cones change the response from the driver and add coloration.  Maybe these guys have achieved a design and methodology that works better - I don't know because as I have stated I haven't heard these speakers yet.  But based on what I have owned and heard up to this point, I will say that I prefer my single drivers to be whizzer-less.  That's all.