Cogent Field Coil Bass Compression Driver

• Cogent Field Coil Bass Compression Drivers

During the Stereophile /Primedia-sponsored Home Entertainment Show in Los Angeles June 1st- 4th, 2006 we visited a couple of local installations, one ofthemthe home of one of the Cogent True-to-Life team members, SteveSchell and Rich Drysdale. There theyhad set up a modest system, modest that is except for the factthat it featured the latest version of the Cogent True-to-Lifehorn speakers.Hereyou see the heavily damped room in which the system is set up. Thehorns and subwoofer unit are using the same physical enclosures asthat seen at CES 2006 in Las Vegas. System source equipment,speaker crossover, and the Cogent compression drivers are alldifferent from that used in Las Vegas. Contrasting this with the, this system had a seriousdisadvantage with respect to the source components andamplification. The room here also seemed slightly narrower thanthat at CES - although both rooms were quite small rooms,considering the rather large and verrrry efficient loudspeakers.Our primary goal during the listeningsession was to answer a number of questions we have had sincehearing these speakers at CES; primarily 'Were we crazy?' Were wejust imagining the high-quality of the sound - the purity, thedynamics and ease with which it handled mini-, micro- and macrodynamics, and a number of other key properties of music that itseems that other loudspeaker technologies must struggle to getright?Well, no.

Cogent Field Coil Bass Compression Drivers

Weweren't crazy. Get to avoid the therapist's couch for a fewmore weeks anyway.The Cogent development team has been working on getting their highfrequency driver to handle high enough frequencies in order tosatisfy the requirement that no additional tweeter should berequired in order for the loudspeaker to reach the standard 20K Hzhigh frequency mark. They seem to be getting very close, eventhough in this system, it wasn't all that evident except inperhaps a little more solidity of the imaging and perhaps moreevenness in the frequency response, especially in the midrange andupper-midrange.