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ESS has shown one off and on at audio shows for 15 years

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In Reply to: RE: An Almost Full Range Heil Speaker posted by hahax@verizon.net on May 15, 2024 at 20:57:53

They used to have one at the headquarters in their show/listening room.

I don't think it was an orderable product. Its performance was rough in the beginning and got refined in sound and looks. Last time I heard it ( at least 7 years) it still had an edgyness to it like a speaker without baffle step loss.
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RE: ESS has shown one off and on at audio shows for 15 years - hahax@verizon.net 09:49:28 05/16/24 (5)
Apples and oranges. The Arion has no crossover from 150 Hz up and unique dipole woofers below. And it works. The woofers on the ESS are not really Heils. And like you said it doesn't really exist. The Arion speaker is real.
- Been 10 years it seems but sure the units were Air Squezers top to bottom - Edp 22:32:55 05/16/24 (1)
  Rusty memory but at lest their pitch was air motion transfer tech bottom to top but with different methods and materials. Didn't spend great deal of effort to fully understand all the mechanisms, but observed clearly an unconventional approach to reproduce lower octaves. It was a promising approach, but rough with a longer road to a fully refined offering.
  - RE: Been 10 years it seems but sure the units were Air Squezers top to bottom - hahax@verizon.net 05:41:15 05/17/24 (0)
    The bass is sort of a squeezer but it's mechanically different than a Heil. They did it to relate to the Heil but couldn't do it the same way. It isn't a folded diaphragm like a Heil as I recall but separate diaphragms pushed together.
- No Crossover? - Inmate51 16:48:10 05/16/24 (2)
  "The Arion has no crossover from 150 Hz up"
  
  So, you're saying that the LF driver is allowed to roll off naturally, and the tweeter does the same?
  
  That I've got to hear.
  
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  - RE: No Crossover? - hahax@verizon.net 19:08:16 05/16/24 (1)
    No, the Heild drivers are mounted as a tall line source and are crossed from the woofers there and run til they roll off supersonically. It's a 2 way system.
    - RE: No Crossover? - Inmate51 08:28:42 05/17/24 (0)
      Ok, I've looked at them (the Apollo). If I haven't missed something, they're basically a wide-range line array with a separate woofer. It looks like an interesting system.
      
      "they roll off supersonically."
      
      Ha, that's funny.
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