AX HORN LOUDSPEAKERS RELEASE THE NEW AXJET PRO WITH ADDED BASS

Welsh HiFi brand AX Horn Loudspeakers has spent many years perfecting their design of a compound, front and rear loaded, horn speaker driven by a single full range driver, they have now launched their AXJET Pro.

AX HORN LOUDSPEAKERS AXJET PRO

AX Horn has made continued developments with the AXSUPERJET, using AER drivers from Stuttgart, Germany, producing efficient speakers with a very flat response. However, AX Horn designer Fred Davies was looking for more bass.

Read our behind the Brands interview with Fred Davies here.

AX Horn Loudspeakers AXJET Pro

HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?

AX Horn Marketing Director Arwen Lehmann-Davies told us: “Although the AXSUPERJET is superb in a domestic environment with sub-woofer for the bottom octave below 70hz, the elusive lowest frequencies have been beyond the ability of the single driver”.

Short of making separate huge PA style bass horns, Fred and Arwen say that it has always proved difficult to achieve very low frequencies at the same dynamic levels as the AXJET.

The full range and the additional bass driver in the AX Horn Loudspeakers AXJET Pro

TAPPED HORN

Now they have achieved it by building a tapped horn into the AXSUPERJET with an aluminium bass driver powered by its own integral sub amplifier, thus creating the new AX Horn Loudspeakers This is the new “holy grail”. Welcome to the AXJET Pro.

AXJET PRO SPECIFICATIONS

Acoustic design: AXsuperjet full range compound horn with integrated tapped horn injected into main rear horn. SB bass powered by integral sub class D plate amplifier

Drive unit: AER BD4B(AX) full range.

Power: nominal 50W… actual requirement 10-20W

SPL: better than 106dB/W/m

Impedance: 6 ohms

Bass driver: SB shallow magnet, aluminium cone 250mm

Power: nominal 300W …actual requirement under 150W

SPL: 88dB/W/m

Impedance: 6 ohms

Bass amplifier: Monocor Sam-300D

Frequency range: 30hz-20khz

Connections: Internally: Atlas Hyper 3.5mm OFC speaker cable in pressure tight flexible conduit.

Externally: Mundorf M-Connect Evo gold-plated pure copper 4mm binding posts.

Supplied with: 5m x 3.5mm OFC speaker cables terminated in copper 4mm plugs or spades. 2 sets of 10M x 4.0mm Kelsey OFC speaker cables terminated in Neutrik Speakons 4 core 4mm bass link terminated in Neutrik Speakons. Neutrik Speakon splitter adaptor 4mm banana plug to Neutrik Speakon adaptor. 5m Kelsey power lead with Neutrik Powercon line socket and appropriate plug. Fleece lined, breathable weather resistant “jacket”.Pack-down, stackable, full flight-case.

Construction: Glass reinforced (GRC) in fibreglass (GRP) shell with PU foams. Marine grade 316 stainless steel backplate, castor spigots, bushes and fixings throughout. Spun aluminium “afterburner” with carbon fibre backing in GRP cone with machined polycarbonate annular centre. Shepherd chrome ball castors.

Finish: Aerospace super-gloss scratch-resistant lacquer in any RAL colour.

Weight: 75kg

Depth: 710mm

Width: 930mm

Height: 1320mm

Position: Not critical, indoor or outdoor, just maintain line of sight to centre of “afterburner”.

Shipping weight: 135kg in pro flight case.

Flight-case depth: 780mm

Flight-case width: 1000mm

Flight-case height:1500mm

AXJET PRO PRICE

RRP:  £90,000 plus shipping and taxes. (Free delivery and install in UK and near Europe)

HiFi Pig Says: Fantastic to see this truly family-run British HiFi Brand achieving their goal and creating their ‘Holy Grail’ loudspeaker.