I am rather surprised that there’s basically no coverage of this. I think, something of this magnitude is as big as the invention of the speaker itself! :ahh:ahh:ahh
Acapella, a Germany based company has released a tweeter(which is built into their most recent 300+ pound per speaker system costing $85,000 per pair). This is nothing like anyone has ever seen or heard of before. The tweeter is actually a constant electronic arc! If you ever saw a tazer, it’s basically like that. The music signal modulates the arc and it produces sound. The idea behind this was lowering mass of a driver, and what’s lower mass than 0, right? This produces are HIGHLY efficent tweeter, that requires a mere 15 watt to operate and one that produces 0 distortion. The system mentioned above looks like so
This looks absolutely gorgeous, to start with. The ionic plasma tweeter looks like so
Why am I so excited about this? Well, party because of what it is in itself. It’s a driverless “speaker”, thats just simply astonishing and I still cant wrap my head around this. Another thing that attracts me to this like a black hole pulling everything in its vicinity is the fact that the definition on that tweeter must be absolutely astonishing. I am a HUGE fan of titanium drivers for tweeters because of the definition they provide and how nice and bright they get. Having 0 distortion and ridiculously high efficency is stunning. Now, if only I could come up with the cash to get a pair of those Acapella High Violoncello II’s, I’d be one happy man.
