Yes, exactly. Two pieces, one stacking on top of the other (think of the older Wilson Watt Puppy arrangement). The side panels attach easily.
This arrangement is much better for moving them around. One of the problems we were trying to solve is how to get these beasts up and down stairs without having to hire a moving company or coerce the neighbor kids to help. By splitting them up
it now becomes possible for one person to do that. Further, it allows us to put the passive crossover in the more acoustically isolated passive midrange and tweeter cabinet offering even better isolation.
Technically, nothing. They don’t go much above 500Hz with any authority, and are essentially gone by 2kHz. They are then there for protection and aesthetics.
The midrange and tweeter have similar patterns that are essential to their operation, and so we wanted to simply carry on the aesthetics and not have to worry about a grille.
By integrating the grille as part of the design of the waveguide in the tweeter and midrange we improve performance.
Looks amazing. As much as I am tempted to order these when they arrive, I will hold off for the AN2. Hopefully at that point those will be the last speakers I’ll ever need!.. want!
No. We’re not planning on a fabric cover though we’re open to suggestions.
One of the reasons we went this route is we’ve eliminated the need for any fabric grille from a protection standpoint.
That’s a functional decision. If aesthetically it would benefit from one then we’d be open to adding it, though it would slightly detract from the sound.
Do you think it would benefit from a fabric grille?
I really like the design and protection also the tweeter waveguide. They are more sleek too. An improvement.
Just one question, How do you prevent kids poking / touching the tweeter ribbon? I like the Sonus Faber sharp pin in front of the tweeter opening, they claim it also helps diverting the heigh frequencies.
Yes, I think that would be a positive change, especially if the plinth doesn’t serve a structural purpose. The speaker should look “lighter on its feet” if you remove the big “blob” on the bottom. If you leave the plinth on the speaker, it also creates additional challenges with interfacing the speaker with the floor. You don’t want users to have to add an additional set of legs/spikes/pads under the plinth.
Don’t get me wrong…although I don’t like every detail of the AN3 design, I do like their new look (except some minor design elements).
And the speakers I like, mostly have no higher WAF than the AN3, most probably even lower, as I like industrial designs.
But there are some, which have a design I like throughout, so here some examples…I think I like a very pure design language, where something like the bent (over the top) front wall of the AN3 is already a bit too much ornament :
But as you can see, the AN3 is quite close to my taste…
Yes, excellent advice. Thanks. Chet’s working on modeling it right now and I have to agree it already looks lighter. It will change (again) the tweeter height so we might have to (again) flip the midrange/tweeter back but that’s no big deal.
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