Robert Koprowski, at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, has designed an interesting speaker which has won several design awards in Poland. He sent us some information on it and we would like to pass it on to you all so 1) you can all see where new designs, and potentially new manufacturers, come from and 2) besides Silbatone, we haven’t seen any other horn speakers using the Manger drivers [although I believe theirs was more efficient)

Robert has applied for/received patents on the industrial design and seems to be eager to take the project further. If you want further information, please contact him at the email address below.

Transducer – 1.2 W05 MANGER MSW- MANGER MTC0803-8 ”
Impedance – 4 Ω
Operating Frequency – 25 Hz-20 kHz (+/-3 dB)
Efficiency – 86 dB 1W/1m Power – 100W
External Crossover division at – 150 Hz
Column weight – 40 kg and 21 kg crossover
Dimensions – 1.3 x 0.5 x 0.5 m
Skeleton enclosure – wood
Thickness of casing – 10-20mm

Anechoic chamber measurements: Accuracy: ± 1 dB 20 Hz to 10 kHz ± 2 dB from 10 to 20kHz Max SPL: 130 dB.

Robert Koprowski
Uniwersytet Slaski
Instytut Informatyki

e-mail : koprow (at) us.edu.pl
www: http://robert.frk.pl

Updated the website last night.

The old website is and will remain available at the link in the lower right-hand corner of most pages on the new site.

Still quite a bit to do, but after borrowing from some of the best luxury and shopping sites , we are hopefully more fully representing the quality and wonderfulness of the few extreme high-fidelity products in the world [obviously there is more to come].

Now YOU have a friend in the high-end audio porn business. 🙂

This new design requires a lot of photos. Although we have over 100K photos of audio equipment, finding the best ones, and showing them in this no-holds-barred bald manner, is laborious and really somewhat intimidating.

The deep dark secret is that although I work really hard long hours compared with most, and I have a passion for the subject :-), I know almost nothing about photography and just a wee bit more about Photoshop [though I am learning more each day]. Though sheer quantity of the photos I can find nuggets with quality.

But this has got to change, and I need to step it up a notch or two in the ‘get cool photos but with quality lighting, perspective, and detail’ department. I would just so LOVE to really present awesome visual eye-candy for this equipment that were commensurate with how awesome the equipment is.

Somehow I just just need to channel Danny Kaey AND Albert Porter … and myself… and At The Same Time [can you IMAGINE the type of person that would then be me? :-)]

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Anyway, lot of products are missing from the Components menu, and a lot in the menu have no pages yet, and no Galleries except the home page is up yet,… and Systems? We got plans for that category that should be pretty cool….