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wrote:
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.

I haven't been impressed with speakers using the Manger driver at
Shows,
mainly due to its chronic lack of sensitivity. Also, the only
commercial
design available in the US was an Audio Physic design that did not
impress
me sufficiently to make it worth devoting the resources for a review.
Martin
Colloms reviewed this speaker in HFN a few years back..

Are there any speakers using the bending wave driver that have been reviewed
by SP?

Not the Manger. But we did review the Ohm Walsh 5 in April 1987, which
uses a
different kind of bending-wave driver. Again, I was not very impressed
nor by
the more recent German Physics designs that use a similar driver to the
Walsh.
Again, it would seem the lack of sensitivity is too big a hurdle to
overcome.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile