ScanSpeak's Ellipticor-A50 Gallery
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After 5 months of crossover fine-tuning, I took the speakers to the ScanSpeak factory in Videbaek:
"Well, heard worse". I think they liked it!
From here the cabs would be dismantled and shipped to a professional painter for front, top and rear.

Almost one year later I could finally assemble the speakers seen in the intro picture above and set them up in the ScanSpeak demo room. A newly acquired Gryphon Diablo 300 had been installed and the speakers were tested at disco+ levels - so much I got worried from the 3½-way configuration. Would the 21WE takes the heat? It very much did so without loosing grip of the 80-350 Hz range. This driver has dynamic headroom way above what I would ever have thought possible.

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Workshop images

Below the prototype cabinets built for ScanSpeak. Goto A50-mkII cabinet.

 
Building the cabinets. 

Testing rebate of prototype 38WE drivers and to the right prototype crossover, which often looks like birds' nests.

Above testing prototype 38WE and D8404 drivers in cabinet.
To lift the cabinets I made a stretcher and a friend helped whenever needed.
These cabs were seriously heavy!

Left: Preparing the front grill frame. Right: Mockup with side panels and front grill.

Oak fillet inserted into front grill panel.

Later I made new base support for the speakers.

ScanSpeak exhibiton, Axpona 2023

ScanSpeak exhibition Aarhus Denmark, 2023

ScanSpeak exhibition Munich HighEnd 2022

ScanSpeak at hifi show in Guangzhou, China, November 2023,

- where the happy marketing boss, Jann Evers of ScanSpeak, presented the Ellipticor-A50 speaker.
Now these speakers have pretty much been around the world, from Munich to Chicago - and now China.

Having been introduced to the drivers to come, I made the above suggestions to the ScanSpeak folks for introduction of the new drivers.
They decided on the classic version, which should turn out to be fortunate. We never know how drivers will perform on a given baffle before we have made one - and done the measurements and simulations. Much too often design dictates and the consequence may be elaborate crossovers to provide the necessary equalisation.

Please, no future plans for any of the of the above speakers, except the Classic. I'd love to - but time.. Well, maybe the Studio Monitor-C, who knows.