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Floorstanding Speakers

The Floorstanding Speaker

The floorstanding speaker is still a basic element of a good hi-fi system, since there is enough volume for the bass driver - a prerequisite for good bass reproduction. And besides, the tweeter is automatically at the right height - ear level. Below are some solutions by all major driver manufacturers.

Alcone by RCM

Alcone/Vifa Pascal XT

Alcone stands for aluminium cone and is a product range by RCM. The drivers feature a rigid cone and show, nevertheless, only a moderate resonance.

Alcone was founded by Ralph Mantel in 1988, offering metal cone drivers at reasonable prices. All drivers feature exceptional signal adherence and excellent decay attenuation. Alcone mids and bass drivers display an aluminium sandwich cone with a surface that has been hardened through anodising. The result is an enormously light and yet rigid cone, producing an airy and lifelike sound.

High recommendable for pop, jazz and classical music are Alcone / Vifa combinations in d'Appolito arrangement like the Pascal (picture left). Pascal is our bestseller in the medium price range with a phantastic price to sound quality relation.
if its too big we have the smaller Dirac XT
Highest dynamics and resolution delivers Nova 3.
The Descartes features higher output and more dynamics.
or still better Descartes II, which got very good test results in journal K+T.
If these speakers are all too big, have look at Laplace XT.
Going for a song is the small Midi, quite suitable for pop and rock, delivering clean bass and mids.

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Accuton

Thiel & Partner knows to produce aluminiumoxyde cones.
A floorstanding with Accuton chassis is Chorda.

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Audaphon

Audaphon tweeter, ribbons and woofer feature an excellent price/performance ratio.

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Ciare

Ciare is an Italian producer of chassis. Ciare produces chassis that satisfy different demands: CH 250 is a fullrange with very high efficiency.

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Eton

Eton produces loudspeakers with Hexacone sandwich cones.

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Excel

Excel is one of the Seas brands (see below), which are produced in Norway. They produce very hard cones made of magnesium. An example for a floorstanding is E-Motion. Due to the low tuning (the bass extends to 20 Hz) the E-Motion is not suited for extreme volumes.

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Focal

Focal is a well known brand. Focal was founded in 1980 in France. Loudspeakes with W-cone and the reversed dome tweeter is a hallmak of Focal.

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Fostex

In DIY Fostex is known for fullrange drivers. Im Selbstbaubereich steht Fostex heute für Breitbänder. Wer diese liebt, sollte einen Blick auf nachfolgende Bauvorschläge werfen.

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Mivoc

Mivoc is well known for DIY kits with very good price performance ratio.

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Mission

Mission speakers are known for more than 30 years.

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Monacor

Monacor International was founded in 1964 in Bremen, Germany, and has since grown to a company group operating worldwide. Their well-known brands offer an extensive range of products which includes 5,000 items from the most varying areas like PA technology, security technology, car HiFi, speaker technology, stage equipment and DJ equipment.

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Newtronics

Many of our customers waited for Newtronics Temperance III (picture right). The review in journal K+T: ... "Soloists stay exactly there where have been assigned to, the precise depiction of depth and width is a piece of cake for the temperance."

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Peerless

Peerless, Tymphany’s world-renowned brand of transducers, was founded in Denmark in 1926. Peerless quickly became known as one of the foremost producers of speakers for the newly emerging radio market. Soon after with the advent of television, Peerless again led the way in sound quality. For over 80 years, Peerless has been designing and producing market leading components for the loudspeaker industry.

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Seas

Seas history starts in 1948. The owner of Radionette, Jan Wessel decided to start making loudspeaker units for his own production of radio sets. Seas is well known for producing speakers of high quality.

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Scan Speak

Founded in 1970, Scan-Speak still resides in Videbaek, Denmark. The acoustic engineers adhere to the legendary policy of "Never compromise". Scan-Speak never compromises on the product quality, sound quality or pursuit of perfection in a given application.

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Tang Band

In 1996, nestled against the foothills of Taipei City, Tang band Ltd. was born. Tang Band was created with one overriding goal in mind; to make innovative, high quality speaker drivers.

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Jim Thiel

THIEL Audio Products Company of Lexington, Kentucky is a privately-held, engineering driven organization that performs research, design, and manufacturing of loudspeakers for the highest quality music and video sound reproduction in the home.

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Vifa

Vifa Loudspeakers is a well known and respected name in the audio industry. Like Peerless, Vifa belongs to Tymphany.

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Visaton

Visaton is a German loudspeaker manufacturer. With 30 years of experience in the field of acoustics and loudspeaker technology and a future oriented engagement in research and development, Visaton is nowadays a specialised and world wide successfully operating loudspeaker manufacturer.

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Wavecor

Wavecor is an innovative force in loudspeaker technology. High quality loudspeaker units for industry and personal customers (DIY) - for Hi-Fi stereo, multi media, home theater, pro, car applications, etc. Tweeters, midranges, fullranges, woofers, subwoofers. Evaluation kits. Complete car component sets. Complete OEM speaker system turnkey solutions for the industry.

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The Magazine Hobby HiFi

Since this magazine is targeted at the DIY market, every edition features loudspeaker kits, indispensable information for the DIY community.

The Magazine Klang+Ton

This loudspeaker DIY publication has a longstanding tradition. For many decades top-quality kits have been featured and off course the extremely popular Cheap Tricks (CT).