This thread will address each element of Chane technology in a separate posting.
The first in this series is on the Chane tweeter. (A similar comment appears in another thread in the Chane forum.)
The Chane tweeter is our evolution of this proven format. It is measured and regarded to be of the more effective tweeters in it's price and output class.
The Chane tweeter uses a high temperature thermoplastic leaf with a diaphragm backing material with a metallic voice coil. The Chane tweeter has a push-pull motor. Strips of Neodymium are aligned under great force in front and behind the diaphragm. This alignment reorients the arc of their force fields parallel to the lines of force set up in the tweeter's voice coil by the amplifier.
The Chane tweeter's push-pull motor and field arrangement eliminates force applied to the diaphragm in any vector other than directly fore and aft, which eliminates the distortion of simpler single-ended planar magnetic designs. The diaphragm is almost all driven and operates more pistonically then a dome driven at its periphery by a glued-on voice coil and former.
The Chane tweeter also has an advantage in area and air cooling. The former gives this tweeter the proportionally lower intermodulation distortion that shows up in measurements - with about four times the radiation area of a dome the planar device has about four times less of this distortion. The balanced push-pull gap motor - like all solid state and many tube amplifier designs - also cuts second order harmonic distortion. Pairing large surface area and the "double" motor simply lowers distortion a number of times.
The doubled, push-pull motor also adds efficiency: The Chane tweeter is used in the speaker with substantial electrical attenuation which translates into added in-product thermal headroom.
The Chane tweeter is a proven design, one that's been on the international market at brand and OEM level for years. Units are reliable and acoustically well matched.
Similar variants of the Chane tweeter are found in "reference" high end loudspeaker models costing thousands of dollars.
The first in this series is on the Chane tweeter. (A similar comment appears in another thread in the Chane forum.)
The Chane tweeter is our evolution of this proven format. It is measured and regarded to be of the more effective tweeters in it's price and output class.
The Chane tweeter uses a high temperature thermoplastic leaf with a diaphragm backing material with a metallic voice coil. The Chane tweeter has a push-pull motor. Strips of Neodymium are aligned under great force in front and behind the diaphragm. This alignment reorients the arc of their force fields parallel to the lines of force set up in the tweeter's voice coil by the amplifier.
The Chane tweeter's push-pull motor and field arrangement eliminates force applied to the diaphragm in any vector other than directly fore and aft, which eliminates the distortion of simpler single-ended planar magnetic designs. The diaphragm is almost all driven and operates more pistonically then a dome driven at its periphery by a glued-on voice coil and former.
The Chane tweeter also has an advantage in area and air cooling. The former gives this tweeter the proportionally lower intermodulation distortion that shows up in measurements - with about four times the radiation area of a dome the planar device has about four times less of this distortion. The balanced push-pull gap motor - like all solid state and many tube amplifier designs - also cuts second order harmonic distortion. Pairing large surface area and the "double" motor simply lowers distortion a number of times.
The doubled, push-pull motor also adds efficiency: The Chane tweeter is used in the speaker with substantial electrical attenuation which translates into added in-product thermal headroom.
The Chane tweeter is a proven design, one that's been on the international market at brand and OEM level for years. Units are reliable and acoustically well matched.
Similar variants of the Chane tweeter are found in "reference" high end loudspeaker models costing thousands of dollars.
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