Rare field coil driver speaker and innovative amplifier - Songer Speakers and Whammerdyne Amplifier

[@griffincui]

Bar none, the BEST room and speakers in the show. BTW, those speakers sound really real and natural unlike anything of those Hi Fi junkies. The video does not do justice to those speakers. If I have the money, LOL, those are the end game speakers for me.

[@user-od9iz9cv1w]

I like everything I heard in this presentation. The sound clip is awesome and the quality of the design and the execution is really on a different level. These two guys are doing something very special. Reminds me of Aries Cerat. Different tech but similar results from an informed passionate designer.

[@dilshaddealwis6543]

Wow!!! I’m sure this must have sounded spectacular.

[@klepp19]

It was! 😃

[@Marcel-ct9wq]

I like the spider suspension of the driver, beautifull biuld

[@hectoralvarez941]

Best sound of the show ( from your videos) so far

[@ericstefko4852]

wow those sounded amazing with that type of music I wonder how they would sound with other types of music.

[@CarlVanDoren61]

Auditioned Ken's box speaker. For a one speaker does it all, it does very very nice.

[@jasoncool3815]

Thanks 🙏 sooo much for taking us to all those rooms ,it’s super cool ,the prices of the gear / technology,the dudes that push their own gear/rigs Thanks 🙏 it’s cool

[@JingoLoBa57]

Good instrument separation… not quite room filled but still impressive. Must try again with my IEM’s later.

[@dennisryan459]

very good sound ,good choice of music!

[@MichaelAmster]

Nice overall sound for the show - they capture the scale well, the timbre of the drums comes across in your recording. It's a warm sound but not soft or overdone. This is a good sounding room. Wonder how it will rank when you are done.

[@davybloggs1564]

Michael - how can you possibly tell that from listening through your PC or, worse, laptop speakers??? = you can't!

[@klepp19]

@@davybloggs1564 I heard their room in Seattle PAF 2023 and it was my best sound of show! They were using Mola Mola Tambaqui for digital though.

[@buymogate]

Looks very much like the Linkwitz Orion design!

[@MichaelAmster]

Focal had a field coil driver on one of their Utopia models. It used to be more common a long time ago before rare-earth magnets became available (like 60 or more years ago).

[@weatheranddarkness]

The demo I sat in for of that speaker at a show (the big Utopia, I think there was one size down that also had the fc drivers) wasn't super impressive, but I think it was because as a system, including room, it wasn't dialled in, and the selections played were not incredibly difficult to render.

[@rickg8015]

The output transformers of the monoblocks are wound by Monolith Magnetics from Belgium.. One of the best ATM. I wish you could’ve visited with the 2A3 monoblocks hooked up..

[@freeradical431]

Finally. some real speakers!

[@datka3]

Would love to experience these speakers, was it really really good ? Small review of some or the interesting speakers would be nice 👍

[@AudiophileJunkie]

My wrap up and review will come out tomorrow. Stay tuned...

[@gharris2389]

Was there on Friday and this room sounded great. Very tempted by that Whammerdyne amp for $5K.

[@sweetmamma31]

You should demo it. Just call Head Whammer (Pat Hickman). Don't forget your credit card. I own the baby Whammy. It is awesome!

[@jlo8775]

Absolutely beautiful gear!

[@listeningto8371]

Electron charge as opposed to electron spin. As soon as he said that, I knew he didn't have a clue what he was talking about. 11:40

[@sweetmamma31]

Now that's the stuff that dreams are made of! 👌

[@jasoncool3815]

Yea totally 💯

[@weatheranddarkness]

The bass presentation seems blown out on your recording, you'll have to tell us how it was.

[@labalo5]

Damn this so cool. Field coils would make me step away from my horn setup from fleetwood. What are the msrp on these speakers and the hybrid amp?

[@AudiophileJunkie]

I actually don't recall. I might have filmed a sheet with the gear list in a previous attempt to go in this room, but not sure if they had one.

[@labalo5]

Did a quick search. Songers are on the 30K realm (but they are FCs!), and the hybrid is not out of this world and attainable at 5K

[@tomlucindawarnock2713]

List price on the speakers was 37K but the dedicated power supply was another 3K so 40 total. The integrated amp was about 5 K as a show special and the monoblocks were about 12or13k for the pair.

[@GiantRock62]

This is a great concept with success but why does it has to be high end with highly polished costly materials?

[@jas1435254]

What's the title of the track/song played?

[@songeraudio24]

Fanfare for the Common Man, as performed by the Minnesota Orchestra

[@yellowman504]

Who is the artist singing? Dominique?

[@AudiophileJunkie]

Dominique Fils-Aimé

[@DrBroncanuus]

field coil technology ? ....I thought that was old / obsolete tech....

[@chaddraizin6616]

old, but not obsolete. Just more cumbersome because it requires a DC source. The electromagnets are much more powerful than permanent magnets of the same size, so they have much more control over the driver and more effectively dampen the cone.

[@weatheranddarkness]

@@chaddraizin6616 you can't really compare by size. A neodymium motor(or even alnico for that matter) can easily be made higher flux density in the gap than most FC designs, with less motor bulk. The real difference is that it's an active system, there's constant drive on the motor against the push of the voice coil. And then, how much difference that makes is going to depend on a load of factors at differing listening volumes. But it does give a certain something something through some regimes.

[@stefandenic7144]

Field coil or ferrite, it's still a too large of a driver to reproduce high frequencies. It looks like an unfinished product.

[@kenturmon3660]

Lol sure as hell doesnt sound like an unfinished product.

[@rik575]

I prefer speakers/amps, NOT gimmicks!

[@flemingcourt]

Can't here you!!!!!!

[@bullruncrypto1503]

The music choice is not for me....play some Pink Floyd and im in.