THE COMPLETE PACKAGE

The development of our AX AFTERBURNER for the AXJET has completed the design, giving pressure equalization to both sides of the driver and consequently allowing higher SPLs without the driver moving out of its x-max and into distortion. The clear polycarbonate AFTERBURNER centre ring not only allows the driver to be seen, but acts as a central high frequency horn for the tweeter cone, whilst the exterior works with the spun aluminium section to form an annular exponential mid horn to load the front of the main speaker cone. The rear of the cone is then loaded by the bass horn, which is a folded circular section exponential horn. The horns are half a wavelength out of phase at the crossover frequency so that they work in unison.

We use the best connectors, recently moving on to copper to maintain the copper line throughout, with 2 x Atlas Hyper 2mm to each driver from the connectors, housed in flexible conduit to maintain pressure to the rear chamber. The connectors are VITAVOX 4mm banana plug binding posts mounted on stainless plates and are wired in parallel with stainless body Neutrik Speakon connectors. All the fixings are stainless steel. We supply the AXJETS with an AX WAVESHAPER and 5m Atlas Hyper 3mm cables terminated with Atlas crimped copper Z plugs, plus 10m Klotz 4mm pro cable terminated with Neutrik Speakons for outdoor use. A Speakon to 4mm adaptor is included.

Safely protected by their water-resistant fleece lined jackets, the AXJETS can be lifted by two people, using the cleverly concealed grip ridges on the underside and around the back-plate. They weigh 60Kg each and are easily moved on their castors. We have slimmed them down to go through standard 760mm British doorways, so they now measure 710mm deep. The shipping container for the AXJET is a flight-case, on castors, which weighs nearly 60Kg too and is load strapped for extra security. Foam packaging can be placed in the horn mouth to ship other components such as amplifiers, pre-amp or DAC etc. Because of their huge efficiency the AXJETS will work comfortably with a low output valve amplifier but are just as comfortable with good transistor amplifier or even with a high output pro PA amp. However our personal recommendation is to couple them with the superb Audio Design Linear A, hybrid single ended triode class A design, by Tom Evans.

The AXJETS are not very room dependant and should be “toed in” to point at the listening position. Although they are primarily intended as high-end music monitor speakers, they work wonderfully for super real cinema sound. The AXJETS will also give an absorbing realistic performance at relatively low levels in the listening area with almost no sound emanating from the rear of the enclosure making them less bothersome in other areas of the house. However they can produce enormous sound levels to emulate a live concert and when used outside they have such a coherent wavefront that they can cover a large area easily. When set-up properly they are virtually teenager proof, i.e. unpleasant sounds can be played at uncomfortable levels without destroying the drivers!