Andrew Jones - New Company, New Speaker - Field Coil Concentric

Interesting.  Hopefully his speaker company is better run and sticks around longer than Clayton Shaw’s. 🙄  Low bar there. 

They have decided to name the model:

BABS...Big Ass Bookshelf Speaker

From a 'rigidity' perspective, maybe you're thinking what i'm thinking... I don't think a driver exists until now at any price, where part of the radiating surface didn't get out of phase and smeared things out...Maybe, he was able to model/ optimize something with the field coil...

Since i am officially retired now with a lotta time in my hands, I am planning to take a relaxed li'l road trip, not fly this time.

I hope this remains a lower volume manufacturer direct item.....for many a reason..

@tomic601  wrote

Absolutely love my small TAD hopefully he remembers driver rigidity is more important than the motor… anxious to hear your thoughts as I can’t do the show. Wishing him all the best as more than a great hired gun !!

thanks for sharing 

There are very pistonic drivers and German laser tools to measure cone movement vs input signal and output a very visual indication of that … my point is while I am hopeful duplicating the imo stellar Sonics of the Jones designed but made in Japan magic concentric driver will be no mean feat.., 

it looks like the two brothers / partners are interesting cats - I’m hopeful 

This looks promising except 1 thing, the Xover is the ♥️ or 🧠 of all loudspeakers ,I have over 25 years in Xover upgrades in helping friends as well as myself 

Andrew always uses Chinese Xover parts in the past with Elac,and Mofi 

he is a Brit. Why not use Clarity CMR capacitors ,Jantzen inductors and 1% quaility resistors his cost maybe $400  markup on speakers is rougly 4x  from R&D build and packaging before it gets to the dealers in truthno need to mark up Xover parts more then 25%  peciablly when they are getting at least 50% off retail.

having owned a Audio store I know 1st hand , Hopefully he will use quality,if they don’t show you then it’s nothing to brag about , Chinese  caps average at best !