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Hi,Is Cain and Cain still in business as I can't find a link on Google?Does anyone have any links?Thanks!
Cardersound was involved in there somewhere…with his Madison model…a cain and cain design I believe,….a friend has a pair with fostex 207 drivers…great sound … need a sub and a large room required…
It would've been flattering if Terry had built any of my designs, but he didn't need any help on that front -he basically set the idea off (although there was precedent going back to Olson's studio horns of the '40s, which mine are probably closer to in terms of internal geometry -not saying x is 'better' or 'worse', they're just different other than the over-under termini, and from my POV, I wanted that to be the case so we weren't doing the same thing). A few custom-builds of Sachiko, its still-current Kirishima successor, their commercial sister Madison V2 and my pay-for Vulcan planset have used FE208ESigma & the hyper-rare FE208ES-R; they were the nearest thing to 'default' upgrades, although FE208ESigma is designed to be used with one of the contemporary or current Fostex supertweeters. Nice units both and a step up from the standard E / En range the cabinets were designed for (they also work fine in practice with the new NV/NV2 units). For reference, the Cain & Cain double-horn range had three production models, all using the Fostex FExx8Sigma and later the FExx8ESigma drive units. In ascending order of size, they were:IM-BEN (Fostex FE108ESigma)I-BEN (Fostex FE168Sigma, and latterly the FE168ESigma when the original Sigma range was replaced by the ESigmas)BEN-ES (Fostx FE208ESigma)BEN [nominally] stood for Big ENough. The first of them in prototype / production terms was actually the I-BEN, followed by the BEN-ES and finally the IM-BEN; that's why the earliest of the I-BEN units had the original whizzer-cone FE168Sigma drive unit, & the other two always ran (in production terms) with the ESigma series, as Fostex were in the process of updating their model lineup more or less as Terry was developing his range. Single BEN production models AFAIK always had the FE208ESigma. As I recall, the handful of Walla Walla Wall o' Sounds (a wide-baffle, side-firing design) built all ran the FE168ESigma. Abby always had the FE166E, with the Nearfield Abby and Super Abby running the contemporary FF165k, to which the latter added a rear-firing T96a supertweeter with a variable volume control. The Bailey sub (named after Terry's dog) ran a Seas L26 aluminium cone woofer. Goodness knows what prototypes he knocked up & kept relatively quiet about though. I know his prototype Voigt (which was what got him going) used the evergreen 40-1354, & he did at least one prototype pair of Abbys which he modified to run the limited edition FE166ES-R. And of course there was his BIB, also with the 40-1354, which was essentially a design from the old Fostex craft manuals, converted to Imperial & with that unit dropped in rather than the FF125k of the original.You still might see a few of his (stunning) skeleton plinths for the Garrard 401, which was about then starting to garner its cult following, & a few of his custom amplifier bases too.