by Mika Isotalo
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28 September 2024
It was a rainy night in Glasgow, early 2018. Two years prior we had applied for a patent for Passive End Fire Technology. First applied to subwoofers by this time it was apparent that the passive cardioid solution we had invented was even better suited to upper bass or low mids depending on how you look at it. Going from 5m average wavelengths to 2m wavelengths, approx 160Hz band-pass complies well with 50cm cube enclosures which again are the most common compact touring "top" speaker cabinet size. This all made sense. When combining the Passive End Fire philosophy to a coaxial multiway loudspeaker the virtual size of the enclosure can be expanded almost three times the actual size, in other words the real size reduced to a third. Reason being the radiating surface consisting not just the front baffle but sides and in some cases, like with S1, the rear side too radically expand the wavefront created at the low frequencies and hence creating an uniform radiating surface large enough to control the wave front much larger than the single driver could.