Years ago–don’t know exactly when–Bruce Thigpen and his Eminent Technology company designed, made, and sold a model LFT-6.. It was and is a full-range mag-planar speaker with separate bass, midrange, and treble drivers, all on a ‘solid’, hardwood panel that is 6-1/2 feet tall and 18 inches wide..
Bruce told me that they didn’t sell well because they had not enough bottom-octave energy and were a tad expensive–like maybe $15K per pair in current dollars.. This thread…
…caught my eye, and after many e-mail conversations, Bruce agreed to build a pair for me.
They’re only a foot taller and 5 inches wider than the LFT-8Cs so will fit VERY well in my room, even with the ET LFT-8Cs rotated out of the way.. Things I love about the design are:
- Physically, all drivers are in the same vertical plane and electrically in the same polarity and therefore are in phase;
- All the x-over filters are single-order, therefore keeping the signals in phase, at least for much of their filter slopes; and
- There are only FOUR filtering devices in the entire x-over network.
They’ll require at least three months to build, etc., which fits well with my fall project to remodel my musicroom. THIS is exciting. 
I might have these by Thanksgiving!
