For Hawaiians Mobile....The FlipTone v.25

[basilh]

This MAY be better than the "MiniCube"
http://www.fane-acoustics.com/Downloads/36/FlipTone.v25.598kb.pdf


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<SMALL>Steel players do it without fretting</SMALL>

http://www.waikiki-islanders.com

[basilh]

Anyone even seen one of these ?
Baz

[Donny Hinson]

No Baz, I've never seen one. I can, however, give you some info on the flat-panel (planar) speaker they use. (It's not a new technology.) I bought a planar speaker back in the early '60s to use in a practice amp. Fidelity and clarity were wonderful, and it weighed next to nothing. They were originally designed to just hang on the wall and replace the bulky hi-fi speakers. Well, they wouldn't work if you mounted them on a wall, and the best sound came from suspending it in free air, or putting it in a shallow (open-back) frame. It didn't work well at high powers because there's a lot of radiating area, but not a lot of travel available for the diaphragm. Bass response was good as long as you kept the volume down.

I'd say it might make a real nice practice amp, but any real gigging may reveal the shortcomings of that speaker design.

[David L. Donald]

The Micor Pro speakeronly has a low end of 200 hz.
Functionaly to 120hz, but I imaging it is rolled off a lot there.
100hz high pass filter inline too.

No C6 PSG for this baby.

101db at 1 meter.
107 peak at 1 meter.
No one is going deaf with this either.

If they had used the Mini pro it would have gone down to 60 hz

OK for an acoustic guitar gig etc. or a drummer playing with pencils ( good jazz technique)

Here is info on the speaker.
http://www.fane-acoustics.com/public_html/pages/products2/ProdListings.asp?ProductID=35 <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 28 January 2005 at 01:53 AM.]</p></FONT>

[David L. Donald]

I got an email back from them
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR><SMALL>The frequency range is 120 Hz - 21 kHz - that's the range at which can at
operate at its' full output level.
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Seems reasonably accetable