Hi All,
I am the individual behind the EnABL mask. konut thrust an e mic in front of my face and I find myself compelled to type......
Looking at the drivers in question. Appears that 104 dB is an effective maximum radiated power from the 100 watts continuous shown. I will assume that the drivers and cabinet are beginning to show signs of strain at these levels. That further transient excursions, utilizing the 350 watt max are increasingly strained, flattened in sound stage, compressed and smushed together into a less well understood sonic presentation, than what is found at more reasonable, and typical, listening levels.
Were they to be EnABL'd this warning of eminent driver death would no longer be available. so the manufacturer is very correct in pointing out that the warranty would be void. Not because EnABL will in any way damage the drivers by applying it, or listening at the same reasonable levels as before. But, with 9 to 15 dB more uncompromisable headroom available from the drivers emitter surfaces, it is quite likely you will burn out the voice coils, before you realize that, just because it sounds so good when played ever louder, that does not mean that the original thermal and movement limits, were also removed when the dynamic headroom was raised.
As a saving grace, the EnABL process will also supply you with an additional 50 to 70 dB down coherent signal sources, that are no longer lost in the tumult and resonance of same frequency signals, in a "hall of mirrors sense" that all pseudo pistonic drivers, not treated to proper termination as a bending wave device exhibit. The EnABL process does provide this termination, without altering, THD, frequency response, or sensitivity in any appreciable amount. So, the "character" that attracted you so much in the first place, will not be trifled with. Instead, the previous boundaries of coherent information, at both ends and in the middle of the dynamic scale, will be drastically extended and remain constant, regardless of the average level of playback.
This ridiculous set of statements will be found to be true across the frequency spectrum, in all types, sizes and formats of drivers. Except for the superlative EV TH350 tweeters. Multi way systems are just as amenable as are single driver systems. Applying it to a bass speaker provides a dramatic increase in texture, musician applied emphasis, correct decay of notes, spatial definition, tonality and a lack of room resonance excitation.
All of this stuff has always been there, just covered by the lack of proper termination, since almost everyone thinks of drivers as pistons. This causes them to use mass load damping schemes, with abrupt changes in surfaces, mass, and wave prorogation speed. All of these mass damping schemes actually just make the reflections and diffractions worse, everywhere but the one tiny area in the frequency spectrum where they actually do provide benefit. Even Baraneck, the "father" of the modern first approximation analysis of speakers, as pistons, knew this was an erroneous presentation and pointed it out in a mid chapter of his pivotal work "Acoustics". Unfortunately, he did not have Lincoln Walsh's work to refer to and left the solution to the problem up in the air.
Best thing to do is get someone to treat a set of "other" drivers for you, perhaps as a second system. I can point you to an extremely good source if you wish, but hesitate to do so in this forum, for this manufacturer.An alternative is to learn how to apply EnABL to your computer speakers, or car speakers or to the egregious boom box residing in your home. Tools needed are cheap, under $30, time to learn proper procedures, about an hour of practice. Time to treat two simple cone, full range drivers, after you can get to their emitter surface, about two hours, total time, spread over three days. The results will astonish you, and they will come from no longer hearing something you were not really conscious of, except as a loss of "quality" of reproduction. EnABL doesn't "add" audiophile qualities, it removes impediments to hearing music and it's inherent qualities.
All for now, my two typing digits are fed up with this abuse.
Bud
