AlsyVox Botticelli with external crossovers

[matthias]

This year AlsyVox will display at MOC event centre.

Do you know if they have plans to demo the speakers with the Taiko Extreme server?
Thanks

Matt

 

[Marcus]

Don’t know but I’m sure we’ll get information about that soon.

 

[Taiko Audio]

Do you know if they have plans to demo the speakers with the Taiko Extreme server?
Thanks

Matt

We can now confirm we will be joining Alsyvox in their room on the ground floor of Hall 1 at the MOC Munich this year.

 

[christoph]

We can now confirm we will be joining Alsyvox in their room on the ground floor of Hall 1 at the MOC Munich this year.

Nice. Congrats
Can you already spill the beans on the driving amps?
Those funky looking italian ones again?
I would love to hear excellent SETs on the AlsyVoxes

 

[Taiko Audio]

Nice. Congrats
Can you already spill the beans on the driving amps?
Those funky looking italian ones again?
I would love to hear excellent SETs on the AlsyVoxes

Jadis!

 

[howiebrou]

Jadis!

Nice amps!

 

[Taiko Audio]

Nice amps!

I think it's a good call on behalf of Alsyvox to showcase them with tubes this time. Daniele uses 300B amps himself. Most of the Jadis line up does not fall in the low tube power category of course.

 

[howiebrou]

I think it's a good call on behalf of Alsyvox to showcase them with tubes this time. Daniele uses 300B amps himself. Most of the Jadis line up does not fall in the low tube power category of course.

I have heard the JA80 amps drive MBL 101e speakers remarkably well and those are notoriously difficult speakers.

 

[Taiko Audio]

I have heard the JA80 amps drive MBL 101e speakers remarkably well and those are notoriously difficult speakers.

Did these have the KT-150 tubes? I do have to admit I like the more powerful and transparent KT-150 presentation while retaining a certain "sweetness". I do care less about the KT-120, in fact prefer the KT-88 over those.

 

[howiebrou]

Did these have the KT-150 tubes? I do have to admit I like the more powerful and transparent KT-150 presentation while retaining a certain "sweetness". I do care less about the KT-120, in fact prefer the KT-88 over those.

I think they were KT88 tubes.

 

[Taiko Audio]

I think they were KT88 tubes.

Slightly surprised that went so well then

 

[christoph]

I think it's a good call on behalf of Alsyvox to showcase them with tubes this time. Daniele uses 300B amps himself. Most of the Jadis line up does not fall in the low tube power category of course.

I agree. I HAS to be tubes
Do you know which model?

 

[christoph]

Did these have the KT-150 tubes? I do have to admit I like the more powerful and transparent KT-150 presentation while retaining a certain "sweetness". I do care less about the KT-120, in fact prefer the KT-88 over those.

I agree again with your ranking

 

[Taiko Audio]

I agree. I HAS to be tubes
Do you know which model?

Will ask and revert back.

 

[Taiko Audio]

Will ask and revert back.

JA80 mkII and JS2.

 

[christoph]

JA80 mkII and JS2.

And there you have your KT150

 

[howiebrou]

Slightly surprised that went so well then

So was I! It was a great match surprisingly.

 

[BillK]

A big plus with planars is you can get rid of all those ugly dust collectors:

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Indeed, though a lot depends; if you have corner traps as above, you may still need them to prevent buildup in that corner if it's because you have an asymmetric room.

 

[Apogeelover]

A cone woofer can manage +/- 7.5 cm displacement in some cases. The Alsyvox +/- 1cm and at that displacement will hit the frame.

So no, not really.

A Duetta panel is about the equivalent of 3 12 inch woofers and can manage about 7mm towards the magnets.

For both the Alysyvox and any all ribbon Apogee, dynamic drivers will play louder. Considerably so.

The actual driven area of the Duetta is equivalent to 6 12 inch bass drivers.Having replaced the bass ribbons on my Duettas myself I don`t recall the distance between the ribbon and magnets as being 7mm;more like 3mm unless your Interstellas are built differently than standard.BTW what type of MRT do the Interstellas have?
I installed the lightweight XLM2 versions,both these and the bass ribbons still going strong after 14 years,which is a testament to Grazs quality.

 

[LL21]

To equal the Botticellis air displacement you would need 4 long stroke 15” woofers each side (9000 cm3).

Hi...was just wondering how one calc this. I was looking at surface area x back and forth movement of the cones/panels. So in the case of the Alsyvox Caravaggio Bass panel which is 1m2 or 1550 inches2 of surface area x say 0.5 inches of excursion , that is 725 cubic inches of displacement.

In the case of 4 x 15" subs (2" excursion), that is 1400 cubic inches of displacement. To get the displacement of the panel to equate to the 4 x 15" subs, the panel would have to move a total of 1 inch from back to front (+/- 0.5 inches).

Is that the right math? I am doing this because I am looking at 4 x 18" subs (3" excursion) which is 3000 cubic inches of dispersion.