Thanks for the follow up questions on Tess. Design decisions like this were based on a huge number of factors…all very carefully weighed.
A massive linear power supply to drive a 3.2kW amplifier circuit in each speaker would actually be counter productive since those amplifier circuits are...
All elements in Tesseract are task specific and integral to the design. The powered low frequency section is fully analog with active manipulation of phase, damping, and frequency domain characteristics; no DSP is involved. The amplifiers are a fully push-pull class A/B output stage with...
Robert, I'm responding here to to your questions that were in a different thread where you asked:
"It's great to see the advancement Avalon has made in speaker design,but what can you tell us about the upcoming Sentinel update and the New Saga speaker":
"1.Will it incorporate tesseract...
Including your pair, or not? :)
We're still filling the pipeline. There are a half dozen pairs scattered all over Asia, a pair on display in Russia with our distributor there, I forget where the next pair is going. We build them about as fast as we can (a couple months for each pair) and they...
Hello Peter, some things aren't exactly accurate in the rendering (the drivers are wrong, the bases aren't the correct size, you don't see any braces from the base to the speaker, etc) but it's close enough for this discussion.
The top cabinet has spikes that go into receiver cups that are...
I wish I did. So many different measurements were made in that development process that I'm sure Neil couldn't wait to delete that stuff from the computer (and probably had to, just to make room for other things I'm sure). Can always do something fresh but we don't have anything but other...
Indeed the inspiration for the name was the geometric form. Tesseract indeed is 4D analog of a cube...or more metaphorically, an extra-dimensional object that has been projected into our #D world.
Avalon designs have always considered the sound waves that are coming back at the speakers (a big...
Quite a few different brands of electronics get used in the development and voicing of speakers at Avalon. There is a pretty nice array of gear to use to be sure the speakers play well with all kinds of things.
One technical point I failed to make earlier that I think you guys might find...
Thanks to those of you that have kept this positive. As I stated, going forward i'll try to stick to facts and keep my opinions to myself. Seems silly to me given the name of this forum, but whatever. Peace!
Rob, it was a true pleasure having you visit with Neil and I. Great fun. I may indeed...
Feel free to visit the Avalon Facebook page for some recently posted photos of Tess in a listening room in Taiwan. I'm not sure if it's allowed for me to provide links.
Again, just trying to be helpful here. I'll keep my opinions to myself as much as possible going forward. Would be great if...
Happy to consider the possibility of a special listening session at some point for members of this forum. So far Tess listening sessions at the factory in Boulder have been on an individual invitation basis but I could work on putting something together for a group at some point if there is...
Thanks for the follow up questions and comments guys.
Easy question first...US retail is $325k for a pair. It's probably obvious that it takes quite a bit of time to build a pair of these (two months minimum) so in North America there are no more than two pairs made available per year. The...
In the recent thread where I introduced myself to this forum I was asked by LL21:
"...tell us about the Tesseract please. There is not as much written about it as other SOTA, reference level speakers. In particular, it certainly seems as if Avalon has gone through great lengths above and...
Thanks for all the kind words and the warm welcome, you guys are great. I've read a lot of very informed and helpful comments here on this forum. Great to see a community of people being positive and helpful to each other. My pleasure to contribute here.
A new website is indeed in the works...
Greetings all Avalon Forum followers and participants! I recently joined Avalon as the Director of Business Development for North America. In short I am responsible for sales, support, and development for North America. I'm extremely excited to be contributing to Avalon and hope I can contribute...