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The Manger drivers look to be one of the more interesting drivers
available and there are both kits and finished speakers available using
their bending wave drivers.

The Zerobox 103 seems like a natural for review in SP.


Stereophile has already reviewed a speaker with the Manger driver. IIRC,
it was somewhat flawed given its high price.


Might it have been a speaker priced around $70,000.00? I beleive that
would have been from a company called Overkill Audio (how appropriate)
called the Encore.
For me, any spekaer in that range has at least one flaw.


Mikey,

This is the speaker I was talking about that was also reviewed by
Stereophile. I don't think SP online has it and I don't know what their
verdict was. The review that found it "flawed" was by Martin Colloms for
HFN&RR.

http://www.immediasound.com/Medea.html

The system pictured at the above link looks very similar to the big Zerobox
system designed by Manger, except the Manger has no powered subwoofer. I
think it very likely that there was a bad impementation of the xover and
drivers, since, if the measurements are to be believed the Manger driver is
very smooth and should provide excellent performance when properly utilized.

Either that or they just aren't nearly as good as they're alleged, which I
find a bit hard to believe since I've seen other reviews that praised it
very highly.

I'd like to see the Zerobox 103 reviewed with measurments as I think that
will tell a better story and the Zerobox is a helluva lot more affordable.