When building these I tried to design everything for the best possible sound. They're the biggest, boldest and most uncompromised speakers I've built.

The whole speaker is built to serve as the best possible basis for the Voxativ full-range driver used. They're by far the cleanest, fastest and most resolving drivers I've heard.

It was clear that drivers as lightweight and as delicate as the Voxativs would show every single internal reflection of an enclosure, so the only way was to forgo the enclosure completely.

In order for the sound to be as coherent as possible it was clear from the start that the speaker had to be a mirror image in a MTM configuration and with time-aligned drivers.

It also required the fastest and most transparent sounding woofer. The obvious choice here would be the GPA Altec clones, but none have parameters suitable for OB use and they are still somewhat heavier than the woofer ultimately chosen. It turns out this woofer, although quite affordable, can beat some of the most expensive woofers made specifically for the OB application with some 20dB lower distortion in the subbass region at 90dB!

It is also the most efficient 15" woofer in the region of interest I have come across. Something that is of utmost importance for it to not sound lean. Remember - there is no level pad on the 100db/W Voxativ! Quite a challange to find woofers matching its sensitivity.

The crossover consists of a simple coil and an impedance correction circuit. No crossover parts for the Voxativ driver. The most transparent capacitor is simply no capacitor.

Both the coil and cap uesd here are overkill for this application, normally being used for midrange applications. The resistor is simply the best I could find.

In order to get accurate measurements of such large speakers many hours were spent on finding the most accurate way to measure them. 

Since the floor is an integral part of the lower baffle lifting the speakers up high was not very uesful. In the end a compromise was found that produced accurate results and allowed a full 360° measurement.

During development it becamse clear that a U-frame was needed to get the right amount of bass. However normally U-frames are plagued by resonances that also impact the sound towards the front. Still, this turned out to be preferable to an H-frame, which many objectivists consider superior, at least with the minimalist first order crossover used here.

Thus special care was taken to dampen both the resonances created by the wavefront leaving the back and also the resonances in the frame themselves.

For the baffles the weapon of choice was a massive plate of lead secured to a damping layer, glued with a special elastic and ultra-strong glue. Finally, the plates are then screwed to make it impossible for the heavy plate of lead to come flying down.

This novel approach was able to virtually eliminate a resonance the baffle had, while still keeping the quick character of the natural wood chosen as a baffle material. Combining both subjectivist principles and hard objectivist truths.

Both the components on the crossover board and the board itself are also fastened on a combination of vibration absorbing components. Finally the components are covered by the same mat of natural wool as the whole back of the speaker is.

So while the radiation pattern is still that of a dipole, the frontal lobe is a bit louder than the rear. Imaging was improved this way.

are the only component between the incredibly resolving widebander and the amplifier.

Normally the cable for a widebander has to be somewhat warm sounding as fullrange speakers with such high efficiencies are a bit lean. Essentially the cable becomes what would normally be the baffle-step compensation filter.

But since Amon uses the woofers for this purpose - an approach that also drastically lowers distortion, I was free to chose the most transparent cable I could find.

After some trial and error I found silver-gold foil in natural cotton to be the best sounding option here. Very expensive, but this is what it had to be.

have a very different requirement. Very thick cables are needed here and as such silver is out of the question. Thus the very musical sounding tinned copper in cotton was chosen, as a flat foil-like cable and with some 25mm^2 area. These are truly end-game woofer cables, easily allowing an effortless bass presentation while still allowing for a coherent sound.