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" We are the first people to produce resonance controlled cable systems in the world. "
Friday 17 November 2006
By Shabir Bhatti (Exclusive)
AC / Part 2 of 3
Are our products that expensive?
Well the Cabinet! Hardware is easy - manufacture your design components from a clean sheet approach so you have exactly what you require? What you cannot do to total perfection yourself, you give to the worlds finest craftsmen to make for you. Exactly to nigh on nil tolerances, and you throw out the ones that fail to meet perfection. Parts are made in England, USA, Sweden and Germany only. Design and produce specific materials, then ship to various people who are skilled throughout the world who can manufacture absolute components with absolute expertise.
Now execute the cabinet design and machining to a new level of compromise. Re-evaluate how basic principles of air compliance, de-fraction, energy transfer and work from reproduction of "point source" as all noise is generated as opposed to time alignment only on a limited plane.
Time wise the list below gives an idea ONLY of some of the labor involved:
140 hours + Finishing process - 16 gel coat’s and base coat preparation process, then very extensive sanding down to a fine finish prior to polishing.
80-hour actual unit construction assembly time.
68 hours in the actual membrane panel’s construction and time in the Sapphire SE model
Extensive CNC time. The elaborate cabinet structure involves substantial times on each individual panel part and complexity of cabinet.
30 hours in the application of membranes to various components, drivers and cables etc.
Testing at each stage to build to our nigh on zero tolerance standard on all components
4 hours testing time
12 hours detailing time for finished item
Totaling between 370-380! Man hours a pair
The above does not include the work involved in bringing this level of product's component together or its extensive production times or cost's involved in the manufacture of compromise free components.
Oh and not forgetting the first sapphire and diamond diaphragms with a purely pistonic motion coupled with the first titanium voice coils and materials that have resonance frequency break up points above the audible bandwidth mounted on a substantial and independent unique baffle system.
As compared to an elaborate passive box with generous drivers array and a cross over network can be produced by us in 4 hours for the pair!
We introduced the world first unique resonance controlling cable systems-what is so special about them?
Well again, the cable system has been much misunderstood and is very much considered still by almost all as an accessory only to connect their ancillaries. Secondary only to substantial ancillary components, there clear fundamental importance is often misunderstood.
My finding to the contra is that a cable system is a "connecting system" as a whole - from source component's actual components within to the transducer voice coil. These form an important and internal part of the chain as say an amplifier.
We are the first people to produce resonance controlled cable systems in the world; and are a fundamental extension developed from the needs of the transducer system, initially to keep the integrity of the signal within the loudspeaker system. Now we are applying this technology throughout the chain.
At this point, we offer the transducer, the cable system, and to limit the damage of resonance's on your ancillaries function by implementing the nano pucks and Nano on rack system. Ideally, we would also remove the effects within your amplifiers and source components. At this point a handful of the finest CD Transport Manufactures are starting to apply effort on stopping this effect on their transport with limited results. These have been achieved by mechanical over engineering methods though not the most scientific and a very convoluted way of a far more basic problem.
We offer a modification service for CD Players where we apply some of our membranes to the various parts - resulting in a far more precious and distortion free sound. Cost tends to be about £500+shipping from the factory direct.
I have managed to give comparisons to show our mains cable doing as much to a CD Player to the extent that a great 5k dac would do with the Resonance mains and the Wow Resonance mains. Aim of the cable is to not have any presence, just move our signal onwards without change and paramount distortion.
A lot of my findings to date are that cable offered actually only partly addresses basics, that being its electrical and physical construction properties. Another whole half a world exists above this. So Audio Acoustics is doubtful to produce a sub £200 piece of cable as anyone with half a understanding of soldering 4 joints can run along to RS Components, Maplins or an electrical store and buy a £5-40 a meter of OFC to Silver Bullion at best and produce an ok cable
What we offer is that the electron flow from the signals view point across the full relevant frequency bandwidth are addressed i.e. obvious basic's done already in terms of starting with the finest diamond drawn out silver litzs strand-age of the highest purest quality than Teflon coating. Then we utilise star earth 4 nines silver plugs with high temperature pure silver brazing all very basic, as a staring point for the raw material's part. Then we apply by hand various types of resonance controlling membranes in a particulate format that I have to be vague about to remove the cable system from being interfered with by any inception of resonances.
A good analogy that works for all our products is: if one imagines the signal flowing from source component to loudspeaker, and its being incited by resonance's on its journey (imagine an artist painting and that" resonance's" is someone jarring him repeatedly) this adds a lot of distortion by the time it gets to the end. While most people are concentrating on getting even more signal generated (finding a better artist who can paint better) - a futile and inefficient thought. I am more preoccupied in letting the system actually start functioning better by removing the problem and letting everything work fundamentally far more productively; leaving us with a phenomenal amount more to start with already! (Stop the guy who is pushing the artist! - he's probably a pretty ok painter already!)
Part 3 continues in a seperate article...
(AC / Part 3 of 3)
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