Front and back side view of the finished bass cabinet. Notice the Amplifier and control panel in the right picture.
The lower
frequencies are reproduced by an active sub-woofer that is build with four 25 cm
Kevlar woofers, each of which has its own amplifier.
Each of the speakers has an
acceleration measurement device that provides motional feedback correction.
The complete amplifier - feedback assembly together with the speakers units was provided by Backes & Müller.
Detail showing the
amplifier module. The
double 300 VA transformers are followed by two boards totaling
80.000uF capacitors and also containing the switch on/off circuitry. The first
board contains an extra
transformer (the blue square in the front above the flat cable connector) for the standby modus.
Then follows the board containing the filters. Control of the filters and extra phase circuitry
are on a separate panel.
The last two boards each contain 2 complete amplifiers capable of delivering 180
Watt RMS/4Ohm.
Also including the motional feedback circuitry.
On the left you see the woofer, Each bass cabinet contains four of these.
On the right you can see, once the dust cab is removed, the induction
accelerator sensor in the center of the voice coil.
It is etched on a piece of fiberboard and surrounded by its own set of magnets.
The
Woofers are placed opposite to each other in order to minimize forces exercised
by the cone movements.
Since all woofers move out or in together the forces they
exercise on the cabinet are annihilated.
The
woofer cabinets are made of 13 mm (HPL high pressure laminate) phenolic resin (the same material as used in the Manger top cabinet)
glued directly to 22 mm MDF.
This was done under high pressure using a panel
press capable of delivering 60 tons of pressure.
The complete panels where first
assembled to a sandwich.
Then they where cut on a numerically controlled panel saw.
The
cabinet was reinforced by multiple braces and then extra damping was applied to
the panels using Hawaphon
panels.
These are filled with small steal balls which absorb the vibration energy.
Such panels are also used in the Sculpture and the Elance from the Aachner firm Audiodata.
or Danish Physics. These sandwich is then further damped by a layer of needle felt.
Here you
can see the stack of panels which for the woofer cabinets.
You can clearly see the
sandwich construction.
And here are the cabinets ready to be painted.
