Cabasse Speaker Drivers

There’s an aesthetic issue with three-way standmount speakers. Because they need a tall front baffle to house the tweeter, midrange and woofer, they look bulky by today’s slimline standards. We can stomach multi-way floorstanders (or almost floorstanders, like models in the ATC range), but we like our standmounts proportioned like a scaled-up mini-monitor, it seems. The Cabasse Bora solves that problem at a stroke. It’s a three-way that looks like a two-way. The secret’s in the top driver, that people automatically mistake for a tweeter. The white surround in that drive unit is, in fact, a toroidal (or annular) midrange driver in its own right; this coaxial driver is Cabasse’s own BC13 drive unit.

Accessories - Antenna Cables: QED Broadcasting Series *BNC 1m* This high quality cable is designed for use with high quality TV receivers, FM and DAB tuners, etc. The company's Duocell based drivers were launched in '86 and in '92 Cabasse opened their factory in Troncais where they combined production of cabinets and drivers with the assembly and control of the speaker systems themselves. This year also saw the company premiere its SCS technology based. How To Install Vlc Codecs Ubuntu.

Aside from making the speaker more pleasingly proportioned to a wider audience, a coaxial tweeter and midrange effectively makes a point source for the mids and above and coaxial units are typically less fussy in installation. A more conventional 210mm bass unit, made from Duocell, sits below the coaxial driver. Duocell is an ideal material for bass units, as it’s very light, very rigid and very well-damped. It’s also easy to drive, a key requirement in Cabasse designs, and the Bora is a very easy 90dB sensitive, eight ohm impedance load that makes it ideal for anything from a low-powered tube or gainclone amp on up (the Bora’s ability to handle 840W peaks means you’d have to be driving it well past comfort levels at the other end of the scale). Looking like a two-way with an eight-inch bass driver gives the speaker the proportions of a classic BBC-derived design, but Cabasse has been canny with the front-firing port. Instead of the typical round port below the bass driver, Cabasse uses a flattened letterbox shaped port, built into what looks like the loudspeaker’s base. It’s discreet enough that most people miss it, and mistake the speaker for a sealed box design.

With a slightly boat-backed design and gently curved front baffle, the whole speaker looks elegant and understated, even in the slightly bling, but very well-finished piano black gloss option. The grille sits on the speaker with a series of magnets, although these are push-fits onto the wooden surround of the grille and are apt to go missing. The speaker looks and sounds better with the grilles off anyway.

Well-made, single wire speaker terminals on the rear panel complete the package. Linear Program Polynomial Interpolation Examples. The speakers are best on a stand approximately 18” (46cm) tall, but are comfortable on anything between 17” (43cm) and 24” (61cm) tall. Boras were happiest on mid-to-high-mass stands rather than light, open frame designs, but there was no strong preference either way many speakers sound like someone’s filled the enclosure with treacle, disconnected the bass driver or added a boomy, waffly subwoofer when used with inappropriate stands, but here the speaker just sounded a trifle ‘flubby’ (a burbling deep-to-mid bass) on a light stand.