Eminence has also introduced several other new products, the HL10 10" subwoofer, the ASD1001 1" compression driver, the LA6 series 6" midrange drivers as well as others. They're even selling a tactile transducer to rattle the walls in a home theater.

Neat new stuff! Watch for announcements - Updates very soon.

Sounds cool. Can't wait to see the midhorn.

About Eminence drivers, I read on another internet forum:

"The entire Pro Series of Eminence has a symmetrical magnetic field, whether by extended core or shorting ring, (Faraday ring).

Be careful not to get the Kappa series mixed up with the Kappa Pro series, or the Delta series mixed up with the Delta Pro series.
Only the Pro Series has the symmetrical magnetic field."

Does this seem right to you? Eminence don't seem to mention it anywhere.

Adrian

I am hoping they incorporate a stabilization ring in the motors of the rest of their line. Their other models are great parts, but I don't think the harmonic distortion level is down as low as designs having motors that use flux stabilization. The earlier models sound very good, but they don't sound like they have the low distortion afforded by the improved motor design.

About the LA drivers, can these be used in a conventional box design? Is there anything special about these drivers, other than their basket shape to allow them to line up?

Gar.

In other words, the magnetic field surrounding the voice coil is uniform when the energy in the voice coil is not considered or not present. This design feature is important to quality, and should be considered an improvement over designs that fail to provide static physical symmetry. It cannot serve to reduce flux modulation and the asymmetry that results, but it does ensure that there is baseline symmetry. Models that also incorporate a flux stabilization ring should be considered to have improved symmetry, because there is compensation for flux modulation as well.

Ah, thats good to know. Thanks for asking them for me. Only the Magnum's have the faraday rings I'm sure?

How is static physical symmetry achieved? I would think that the flux field has to be symmetrical if the voice coil is not present or not considered, because it's the back EMF along with the AC field generated by the drive current in the voice coil that causes modulation of the flux. So if theres no voice coil, then none of these factors exist and the gap field would have to be symmetrical (just like if the driver was not connected to anything, nothing can cause modulation).

It's this sentence that's just confusing me a bit: "This design feature is important to quality, and should be considered an improvement over designs that fail to provide static physical symmetry". What is the design feature considering that neglecting the voice coil must mean the field is symmetrical? Or I might have gone wrong somewhere......

Adrian