CES - Day 3 - David Grabner, Wisdom Audio and Max Fidelity

Morning visitors to the Genesis room included David Graebener, of Bohlender Graebner fame, along with his buddy Ed Jager. I noticed his badge listed Wisdom Audio on it, Tom Bohlender's current company...hmm... Plus a little birdie told me David has some new planar ribbons in the works, but I'll deny it if you ask me! Yes, I was still half asleep hence the, "Where the heck am I" look. Did I mention this is Vegas?


Looking absolutely thrilled to be photographed is Thomas Irons from The Canadian Loudspeaker Corporation, makers of the Max Fidelity brand drivers sold through Solen in Canada. He is shown holding a sample of their latest textile dome tweeter which has an over-sized cast aluminum faceplate, can be easily crossed over at frequencies below 2kHz, and is said to have a frequency response that is +/- 1.3dB from 2kHz to 20kHz.

This is a very solidly built driver and the velvety (is that even a word?) cast faceplate gives it a real quality look and feel. Thomas also pulled a sample of their new 5.25" woofer out of his bag of tricks. This too used a cast frame and featured their 3" voice coil motor structure vented above and below the spider, instead of through the pole piece, and a proprietary one-piece cone/dust-cap using a proprietary crimping technique to secure the cone to the voice coil.

Cheers,

Mike