Ze’ev who is one of the owners of PAP came to visit our factory a few months back. Unfortunately, I was out of town at the time but Richard and Mino gabe him a tour and then they all spent some time in the reference room listening to the Quintet. At this time we were using the Constellation kit to power them. We had already started some mod experiments so we demonstrated them to him. The first, obviously, was using our VTX, hollow tube, wiring to cable the speakers. We used 12 gauge to the woofers and a 16VTX-FEP to the Horn1. Then, we demonstrated the mod to the crossover PCB. We had modified one PCB and left the other stock. This is the Leonidas crossover BTW. We played a mono signal and switched from one speaker to the other. The difference in clarity and transparency was OBVIOUS to everyone. Ze’ev has a bit startled by the result and was certain that we had made some other change so Mino had him examine the speakers and the crossovers. Easy to do since the PAP open baffle design leaves everything exposed.
Ze’ev apparently is or has already developed different baffles for the speaker. I think he said something about using wood normally used in a piano. Of course I would love to give those a try. But we are doing something a bit different as we have our own ideas that we want to play around with. We are making a single, monolithic baffle for all the drivers from layered bamboo stock. And with it a support frame and platform made from the same material. We intend to make a hole in the support platform for the crossover and suspend it (float it) with some of the polymer isolation straps we use for the DF-SS cable support product.[/QUOTE
Thanks. Amazing quest. Do look forward to the compares when you get round to it.
