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I am on Xmas holidays at the moment, we take it seriously in Australia and we get around 2-3 weeks off work (unfortunately I have visited the factory 2 times in 4 days of holiday!).
Oh, FYI we are virtually COVID19 free in Australia with a minor outbreak in one state that should be clamped back to zero in a few weeks, so its all busy and huggie our there at the moment. Lockdowns do work if they are not half arsed, so does extensive contract tracing, masks are bullshit and are just an attempt by government to appear to be doing something....just sayin.
Back to audio, I have been chatting with my old mate (and frequent foe....we abuse each other a lot, its a tradition) Zel, and he reminded me of a report we had to have commissioned way back in June 2006 by an independent technical audio authority in order to satisfy investors that the work and technology we had developed on electrostatic speakers was in fact different and better than the opposition. Our Investors commissioned Professor Greg Cambrell of Monash University. Well here it is, it really is a fascinating read for all those interested in speaker technology and Electrostatics in general as it includes a great deal of good theory and a wonderful calculation of the maximum possible SPL of an electrostatic speaker of 117 dB!! We are approaching 112 dB at the moment- yay us.
Back then we created a company Immersion PLC and managed to get funding to develop a new electrostatic speaker for Nakamichi.....The Nakamichi Dragon electrostatic in honour of the 25th anniversary of the Naka dragon cassette deck in an attempt to resurrect the brand. Back then and now Naka along with Sansui, Akai and Emmersion were owned by the Grande group of China who continue to ride all of these great names into the ground with rebranding of cheap Chinese shit.
So based on the technology we created in Immersion PLC we created this for NAKA:
Initially it was called the Phoenix (Naka raising up from the ashes) but after Kobayashi's approval it was renamed the Dragon.
So, sad story, the Grande Group had financial issues, our management were exceedingly stupid and the product died......only 140 sets in captivity around the world. The collapse of Immersion lead me to start Involve audio as we needed a life boat!
Anyway have a look at the attached PDF it also had some very interesting independent testing of our electrostatic speakers back then in 2006, we have actually come a long way since with some new wiz bang technology. It is currently used in our Y4 system and we are designing a stand alone desktop electrostatic speaker at the moment for release next year....more soon.
I am on Xmas holidays at the moment, we take it seriously in Australia and we get around 2-3 weeks off work (unfortunately I have visited the factory 2 times in 4 days of holiday!).
Oh, FYI we are virtually COVID19 free in Australia with a minor outbreak in one state that should be clamped back to zero in a few weeks, so its all busy and huggie our there at the moment. Lockdowns do work if they are not half arsed, so does extensive contract tracing, masks are bullshit and are just an attempt by government to appear to be doing something....just sayin.
Back to audio, I have been chatting with my old mate (and frequent foe....we abuse each other a lot, its a tradition) Zel, and he reminded me of a report we had to have commissioned way back in June 2006 by an independent technical audio authority in order to satisfy investors that the work and technology we had developed on electrostatic speakers was in fact different and better than the opposition. Our Investors commissioned Professor Greg Cambrell of Monash University. Well here it is, it really is a fascinating read for all those interested in speaker technology and Electrostatics in general as it includes a great deal of good theory and a wonderful calculation of the maximum possible SPL of an electrostatic speaker of 117 dB!! We are approaching 112 dB at the moment- yay us.
Back then we created a company Immersion PLC and managed to get funding to develop a new electrostatic speaker for Nakamichi.....The Nakamichi Dragon electrostatic in honour of the 25th anniversary of the Naka dragon cassette deck in an attempt to resurrect the brand. Back then and now Naka along with Sansui, Akai and Emmersion were owned by the Grande group of China who continue to ride all of these great names into the ground with rebranding of cheap Chinese shit.
So based on the technology we created in Immersion PLC we created this for NAKA:
Initially it was called the Phoenix (Naka raising up from the ashes) but after Kobayashi's approval it was renamed the Dragon.
So, sad story, the Grande Group had financial issues, our management were exceedingly stupid and the product died......only 140 sets in captivity around the world. The collapse of Immersion lead me to start Involve audio as we needed a life boat!
Anyway have a look at the attached PDF it also had some very interesting independent testing of our electrostatic speakers back then in 2006, we have actually come a long way since with some new wiz bang technology. It is currently used in our Y4 system and we are designing a stand alone desktop electrostatic speaker at the moment for release next year....more soon.
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