Innovation - Membranes
. Kompund CGF
Crédit photo: .Kartesian company
CGF is 10 times more rigid than conventional carbon fibre
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Speaker cone engineering is looking for utopia target: light as the air, and infinitely rigid.
With very light and rigid cones cone break-up appears due to lake of damping.
In another hand, the cones using additional damping treatment are heavy, which limits the speaker efficiency, the upper band extension and transient response.
In order to keep the best of both worlds, we have developed a hybrid cone material made of Carbon and Glass fibers.
Our CGF cone is 10 more rigid than conventional Carbon cone, and its inner damping is 2 times more efficient.
The added mass is only +3% which is negligible considering the advantages provided.
On these sonogram, we compare the same 5" woofer using different cone material.
(Left: Ceramic | Right: Carbon)
(Left: Paper | Right: CGF)
Ceramic is fast, but most of the energy is focused around 10kHz
Carbone is a good choice, but the cone break-up located at 5.5kHz isn't convenient for crossover
Paper has very intense break-up at 5kHz, with lagging. It provides the typical sound coloration of paper cone
CGF has a much more homogeneous energy from 200Hz to 8kHz, without specific break-up.
Notes
For this comparison, all the parts of the speakers remains unchanged, only the cone is different.
We choose cones from the best cone vendors specialized in each technology
. monoKore
Crédit photo: .Kartesian company
.monoKore technology push the dome break-up over 25kHz
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Transmit accurately every single voice coil movement to the membrane is a fundamental condition for high fidelity reproduction.
Use exotic and expensive material is useless if this preliminary condition isn't satisfied.
For our high-end speaker range, we use direct coupling between the voice coil and the membrane.
The mechanical energy doesn't go through variable glue point, it is transmitted through unique mechanical piece.
Because mechanical lost means fidelity weakness, we prohibit it in our design.
The frequency response below compare:
- Twt25_vHE using monoKore technology (Blue)
- Same tweeter but dome is glued on voice coil former as usual assembling (Red)
We notice the frequency response is same until ~10kHz, but the upper band is affected by usual assembling. monoKore technology has much more linear response from 10kHz to 20kHe, and it avoids the typical dome break-up close to 20kHz ( as typical ceramic dome).
Furthermore, we notice the monoKore has frequency response extension above 20kHz.
. hexaKone
Crédit photo: .Kartesian company
.hexaKone is lighter and 2 times more rigid than conventional paper cone
Read more about .Kompund CGF
Speaker cone engineering is looking for utopia target: light as the air, and infinitely rigid.
With very light and rigid cones cone break-up appears due to lake of damping.
In another hand, the cones using additional damping treatment are heavy, which limits the speaker efficiency, the upper band extension and transient response.
In order to keep the best of both worlds, we have developed a hybrid cone material made of Carbon and Glass fibers.
Our CGF cone is 10 more rigid than conventional Carbon cone, and its inner damping is 2 times more efficient.
The added mass is only +3% which is negligible considering the advantages provided.
On these sonogram, we compare the same 5" woofer using different cone material.
(Left: Ceramic | Right: Carbon)
(Left: Paper | Right: CGF)
Ceramic is fast, but most of the energy is focused around 10kHz
Carbone is a good choice, but the cone break-up located at 5.5kHz isn't convenient for crossover
Paper has very intense break-up at 5kHz, with lagging. It provides the typical sound coloration of paper cone
CGF has a much more homogeneous energy from 200Hz to 8kHz, without specific break-up.
Notes
For this comparison, all the parts of the speakers remains unchanged, only the cone is different.
We choose cones from the best cone vendors specialized in each technology
