Hifi Test Design Edition - GÖBEL HIGH END
Hifi Test Design Edition - GÖBEL HIGH END
Hifi Test Design Edition - GÖBEL HIGH END
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Loudspeakers with bending wave technology<br />
from Gobel Audio.<br />
En detail<br />
Most fresh faced speaker producers<br />
debut with conventional<br />
loudspeakers and concentrate<br />
on engineering with a particular<br />
approach to detail. Not <strong>GÖBEL</strong><br />
Audio - the newcomer presents<br />
a bending wave speaker as their<br />
first product - Respect!<br />
Somewhere in the middle<br />
of southern Germany,<br />
a young, ambitious<br />
manufacturer dares to<br />
create a loudspeaker<br />
using the most demanding<br />
principle of sound<br />
reproduction: the bending<br />
wave loudspeaker.<br />
This makes people with a<br />
knowledge of this technology<br />
hope and fear at the<br />
same time, because this<br />
membrane represents<br />
several challenges that<br />
have to be overcome. For<br />
example, bending wave<br />
speakers are not known<br />
for their high degree of efficiency<br />
or high maximum<br />
load, but <strong>GÖBEL</strong> Audio<br />
is more concerned with<br />
the high quality reproduction<br />
of music at home and<br />
as a result these factors<br />
do not necessarily play a<br />
major role. For the latter<br />
problem, the go-getting<br />
developers came up with<br />
an interesting solution:<br />
what, from a distance,<br />
looks like leather stitching around the<br />
edge of the membrane, are in fact incisions,<br />
cut and sealed by a computer<br />
guided laser. They serve to give the<br />
sound-emitting panels a precisely defined<br />
stiffness, which increases the mechanical<br />
load. These measures seem to<br />
have worked well, as, even in combination<br />
with tube electronics, the pair of<br />
Detaille S speakers could be turned up<br />
to a respectable volume - more volume<br />
is only workable in detached houses.<br />
The use of the advantages of bending<br />
wave technology in the case of the<br />
Detaille S has been just as successful<br />
as the overcoming of its weaknesses.<br />
Thanks to the isocronic and in phase<br />
dispersion characteristics of the bending<br />
wave panel, the Detaille S indulges<br />
you with an accurate impulse performance,<br />
very good fine dynamic as well<br />
as an outstanding resolution. For relaxed<br />
enjoyment of sound, a long-winded<br />
positioning process is not needed,<br />
as the 180 degree sound dispersion in<br />
the listener’s direction is very broad, so<br />
that exact location and tangible spacial<br />
depiction are possible in many different<br />
set-ups - therefore the Detaille S does<br />
not restrict its auditorium to one exact<br />
spot. Use of the optional, but definitely