Janszen model one loudspeakers plus

User Name Stay logged in? Yep, those are the series 2 JansZen tweeters in addition to the gray pvc stator frame the insulated stator wire is wound around each frame and then the two are bonded together with the mylar diaphragm sandwiched between them. In the older series one JansZen panels the stator wire was cut and bonded to the inside only of each black pvc frame. This main design difference was done for the ease of manufacture.

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• Help with Bozak B-302a Century modded with JansZen 65 Electrostats? Thoughts on how to proceed?
• AES E-Library
• Insights from AXPONA 2018 part one
• JansZen zA2.1 Speaker Review
• Janszen 65 brochure
• Best Home Audio: Top Industry Experts
• The Speaker Shop
• Subwoofer Matching Tool
• Best sounding Electrostat?
• JansZen electrostatic

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Help with Bozak B-302a Century modded with JansZen 65 Electrostats? Thoughts on how to proceed?

Do you look forward to being dazzled every evening by an aria or piano concerto? Or is your thing jazz riffs that have you bobbing your head?

Or is bodacious rock the spirit that moves you? If so, you might have found that most loudspeakers truly shine on only one or two genres, or at only one loudness level. It's rare that any loudspeaker can make every genre come to life at any volume level with impeccable nuance, force, and clarity. The absolute immediacy and transparency of electrostatics are the foundation of this versatility.

Whereas conventional loudspeakers deliver music through heavy, complex drivers, sound just flows effortlessly through JansZen's ultra-light, ultra-simple electrostatic drivers. With no voice of their own, they serve as open windows into your recordings, leaving the music exactly as it was recorded.

Musical instruments make sound by vibrating the air in all kinds of wonderful ways. The challenge for loudspeakers is that they're supposed to imitate that whole range of musical expression in just one way, by vibrating diaphragms. Convincing execution of this imitation is only possible when those diaphragms are so light that they essentially disappear. The only loudspeakers with such vanishingly light diaphragms are electrostatics, and the only way to vibrate such light diaphragms is with electrostatic force.

Wispy, virtual air barriers make the sound, rather than heavy, complex, vibrating mechanisms. You can read more here about what makes lightness matter, and here about how conventional loudspeakers distort the sound. In JansZens, electrostatics cover the midrange and treble, which is where the magic is. To that essential magic, we add the satisfaction of deep, clean, punchy bass by way of fast, low distortion, seamlessly integrated woofers.

At this point, you're probably wondering, if electrostatics are so great and cones are not, why do we use cones for the bass? Well, first of all, making deep bass and palpable impacts is not a delicate operation. At least in our case, woofers must execute a tricky combination of grunt work and nuance, and getting it right depends on which woofers we use and how we use them.

The first thing is for the woofers to act as solid pistons, even though they're not made that way. Nowadays, the best woofers can do that, as long as they're not asked to make sound above bass frequencies, where they'd break up, nor pushed beyond their linear excursion limits, where they'd make noticeable distortion.

Our crossovers are set at a very low Hz just above middle A , so not only is all the tricky stuff on our high purity electrostatics, but our woofers are as free of breakup coloration and distortion as those electrostatics are. To attain our famously undetectable transition between the two types of driver, we do employ a few tricks, as well as use the best woofers for this sensitive job. We also have ways of getting deep bass from our compact, sealed enclosures, without employing transient-wrecking ports.

Between the low distortion, the lack of coloration, the seamless integration, and our careful attention to crossover design, the woofers give no clue that the entire loudspeaker isn't electrostatic.

Last but not least, the attractive cabinets suit a wide range of decor, so arbiters of household furnishings tend to welcome them into the home. They're also easy to place, partly because they don't emit the space-demanding back wave that dipolar electrostatics do. These loudspeakers have controlled dispersion, which means the sound projection is narrow enough to cut way down on wall, floor, and ceiling splash, yet wide enough for a few people to sit together and all get about the same sound and imaging,.

Controlled dispersion without "beaming" is rare. It minimizes the amount of sound that would otherwise be bouncing around the room, and does so without making you sit in just one exact spot. This reveals an enveloping sense of the original spaces where recordings were made. This sense of space gives you a convincing you-are-there experience, and you'll probably find the feeling of being transported to the sites of original performances is a new thing for you.

The minimal room interaction also reduces the need to prioritize living space considerations over acoustics. Room treatments and furniture arrangement are thus relatively unimportant, although of course they do matter for optimum performance, as with any speakers. If you're a woman, you may be glad to know that the critical range of frequencies, where conventional speakers tend to sound harsh, is instead as smooth as silk.

This is because that range 1 kHz — 3kHz is on the electrostatics, which are incapable of making peaky sound. With JansZen hybrid electrostatic loudspeakers, you get the best of big electrostatic performance, without the usual drawbacks, plus the deep bass and concussive dynamics of a traditional loudspeaker, all in a deceptively compact, space-saving design.

Audiophiles will especially appreciate the deep, wide soundstage and the realistically sized instruments floating above the speakers. The advent of JansZen hybrid electrostatics means there's basically no reason left on Earth for anyone to live with the drawbacks of conventional loudspeakers or accommodate the space requirements of full range electrostatics. As many satisfied music lovers have discovered, a pair of JansZens can fulfill your quest for musical authenticity and consistent enjoyment, and still satisfy the general preferences of the rest of your household.

Both the Valentina floor-stander and the Carmelita stand-mount are available in passive or active versions. Both models are compact at only about 40" [1m] tall. Both have the sonic hallmarks of much larger speakers. In both cases, the actives feature a high grade, on-board DAC and five independent inputs -- two analog and three digital. The analog inputs are sensitive enough not to need a preamp.

The inputs automatically self-activate, based on which one has a signal, A remote control comes standard for volume and other functions. If you currently own JansZen passives, either model can be upgraded to active for those amounts plus a bit.

You get real-time, remote control selection between directive vs. In the sweet spot, the difference is between a you-are-there vs. In omnidirectional mode, the sound is uniform throughout the room, so you still get great sound when you're not in a listening seat. The SE option can be added to Valentina A8 loudspeakers as a factory mod. The keys are:. JansZen invented and patented the first practical electrostatic speaker in the early 's.

Our modernized electrostatic transducer technology is the basis for delivering incomparably natural midrange and treble, while fast, ultra low-distortion woofers fill the room with deep, commanding bass and concussive drum impulses. These loudspeakers also project a detailed image across a soundstage that's strikingly wider, deeper and taller than the speakers, thanks to controlled dispersion and high phase accuracy. Beyond all that, JansZen loudspeakers create an impressively dynamic sound field that belies their modest size, thus contradicting the supposedly dainty character of electrostatic speakers.

Top to bottom, their exceptionally high clarity, rounded fullness, and silky smoothness carry you to unexpected musical horizons. You've probably noticed that electrostatics aren't common. That's because they're hard to implement, despite being simple in principle. In addition, they've got to meet modern standards of performance and reliability, while also well suiting home environments.

It's a tall order, but JansZen, being the company that invented and brought to market the first practical electrostatics in the 's, has a leg up on all that. Our compact, closed-back non-dipole designs disprove every criticism of electrostatics we've ever heard. These loudspeakers are reliable, solidly built, beautifully finished, easy to set up, require minimal space, and can rock with the big boys, all without losing that natural electrostatic nuance and inner detail on complex, serious music.

Janszen, inventor of the first practical electrostatic transducer in the early 's. For the last 15 years, David has been at the helm, developing new designs and making them available to discerning music lovers worldwide.

JansZen loudspeakers are individually hand crafted to order by attentive artisans in our Columbus, Ohio workshop. The Valentina is our flagship. We build these exceptional electrostatic hybrid speakers to order in both passive P8 and active bi-amplified A8 versions. The front baffle is 2. Painted finishes are also available. At only 38" tall, with two 8" woofers and two electrostatic panels, they fill a room with sound like much larger speakers.

The Carmelita is our stand-mount speaker, with performance that vastly exceeds its diminuitive size. We build pairs to order in both passive and active versions, with or without integral, vibration isolating stands. The 1" thick cabinet is veneered in figured walnut, cherry, or maple shown. Coming by Summer Unlike other electrostatic headphones, the Lotus will go anywhere that you go, thanks to being completely self-contained, and they'll play from just a cell phone or portable player.

There's no interface needed. This is a world's first. Final prototype shown. Click here for Published Reviews. The images had excellent depth, and the presentation was effortless, with no sign of strain. In this position [sweet spot], the image is almost holographic. However, the speaker sounds wonderful no matter where you sit. This seamless integration holds even at a volume high enough to be uncomfortable.

In short, the speakers felt as if they had limitless dynamics coupled with very low distortion. Full review posted to AudioCircle. Slam, bang, these woofers are delivering the goods. Full review posted to the Audiogon Forum. I can now understand why some who listen to Electrostatics won't go back to standard driver designs.

They present the sound in a beautifully layered ethereal form as ethereal as the notes move through the air at a live large concert hall or orchestra pit, all in my little room as long as the recording is good. The Janszen room was my favorite, and the only other room I thought was outstanding was the Genesis Maestro room. It's unbelievable. I listened to many many rooms before coming to that conclusion.

Add in violins playing in a high register at the same time, and the overall presentation is thoroughly realistic. That is the right way to do business, in my view: completely satisfy the customer's need on the first try. Rather, I also mean that I can easily hear the way that sound resonates in and emanates from the bodies of instruments and vocalists.

About 15 seconds after I started playing his first CD, he turned to me and said, with a smile, 'Thanks for ruining my life. Discussion thread about the second professional review of the original Valentina Passive zA2. It has stressed the most important design elements of this speaker, the most notable for me being the perfect flow between the ESL panels and the woofers.

AES E-Library

If you're looking for the most realistic and engaging musical experiences, then you'll appreciate knowing that electrostatic loudspeakers inherently make the clearest sound. In all speakers, a diaphragm vibrates against the air to make sound. Excepting electrostatic diaphragms, however, all are unfortunately too massive or inadequately damped or unevenly stimulated to follow the recorded signal faithfully. This might not be always obvious from the sound, unless you've heard an electrostatic for comparison. The overall effect is as if the air is somehow making itself vibrate. Recorded sounds can't possibly be lost, and phantom sounds can't possibly be created.

Insights from AXPONA 2018 part one

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JansZen zA2.1 Speaker Review

Subscribe Today at Huge Savings! Want to go back in time and hear Coltrane playing live at The Village Vanguard? Or invite your favorite guitarist, unplugged and picking, to perform ten feet in front of you? Creating such illusions is the job of the best loudspeakers.

Janszen 65 brochure

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Best Home Audio: Top Industry Experts

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There are now two system of high fidelity, monophonic monaural and stereophonic. Monophonic is a system that starts from one microphone and is fed through a single high fidelity set. Stereophonic is a double system.

Subwoofer Matching Tool

The plastic diaphragm is stretched across the frame of each panel. On each side of the diaphragm, in each panel, is a network of parallel wires which forms the outer electrodes of the push-pull circuit. This unit is intented to cover the frequency range from cps and up. It is furnished with a high-pass filter for crossover, and a polarizing voltage supply.

Best sounding Electrostat?

Log in or Sign up. Steve Hoffman Music Forums. Best sounding Electrostat? Location: Canada. I recently auditioned many multitudes of speakers for my eventual upgrade to my LS50's, and may of them were leaving me disappointed Most of these speakers had good tonality like the LS50 but tended to smooth over the details that I love to hear, especially in orchestral pieces.

JansZen electrostatic

The Ultimate One Headphones feature an over-ear, open-back design with a 50mm pure beryllium driver. The headband and ear pads feature soft lambskin inner sections for ultimate comfort, with cowhide leather outer sections for lasting durability. Frequency response is rated at 18HzkHz. Features :.