In May 2009 we upgraded them to Big Red 2s, building on our learning from the Tikandi loudspeakers. The upper module now uses the same truncated pyramidal shaped cabinet as the Tikandi with its non-parallel sides to minimise internal reflections and triangular front baffle to minimise external diffraction effects - as well as integrating visually better with the lower module whose truncated pyramidal shape has been retained from the original Big Reds.

To tailor the system to only passive crossovers we had to make some changes to the drivers from those used in the Tikandis. The mid-range driver is a superb Seas Nextel 130mm unit which has more gentle cone break-up that does not intrude into the mid-range pass-band even with the gentler slopes of passive crossovers. We have retained the Tikandi's (and original Big Red's) ceramic-coated aluminium 25mm tweeter with its superb accuracy across the frequencies above 2.5 kHz.

Also retained is a side-firing Peerless XLS 250mm bass driver in the lower module but with the matching passive radiator to extend its frequency response to below 30Hz while maintaining an efficiency of 88 dB/W @ 1m and a maximum SPL level of over 110 dB.

                  

For more details on XLS drivers please click here.

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