With the Triga Neo Pro Bernd Timmermanns designed an excellent, well balanced loudspeaker with high power handling.

The harmonic distortion of the reference loudspeaker is extremely low; the decay is excellent and the frequency response on axis hardly deviates from an ideal flat curve (ca. +/-1 dB at 35-16000 Hz, only marginally ascending above). Considering the lab results the Triga Neo Pro is a real masterpiece.

Drivers:

for high frequencies Bernd Timmermanns chose the Audaphon Neo Pro 5i ribbon tweeter.

The magazine Hobby HiFi had the following to say:
"In the uppermost high frequencies the ribbon concept shows qualities that cannot be matched by any other radiator design: up to 40 Kilohertz the sound reproduction is well balanced. Using an appropriately large design the ribbon is capable of extending these qualities to the lower high frequencies. The Audaphon Neo Pro 5i ribbon accomplishes this task currently better than all other tweeter models known to us. Moreover, the ribbon shows almost unbelievable omni-directional radiation properties: even at an angle of 30 degrees the frequency response far above 20 Kilohertz is still well balanced."

For midrange and bass Focal drivers are employed. For midrange the Focal 6W 4361 with W-diaphragm and for bass the Focal 11 W 7670, with W-diaphragm that is coated with glass fibre laminate for optimum rigidity. The Hobby HiFi article also shows that by using a bass reflex design of 5th order (capacitor in the path to the woofer) the woofer decays quicker than by using a standard bass reflex design. As a result this design shows considerable advantages: enormous power handling, no wobbling of the diaphragm; precise and deep bass with little reverberation.

An excerpt from the Hobby HiFi review

"It took considerable time until the Triga Neo Pro was run-in. Especially the bass took its time to get into top form. Then the relatively small three-way speaker demonstrated what a modern speaker design is capable of: on a bass foundation almost like concrete the Triga Neo Pro produced a phenomenally powerful, three-dimensional, almost tangible sound. Every musical detail revealed an intensity that we rarely have experienced. Whether it's a vigorous bass-baritone (Hans Theessink: Late Last Night) or a brilliant soprano (Sandrine Piau: Opera Arias by Mozart with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra), these speakers reproduce vocals at any pitch with tremendous power and unbelievable attention to detail. This performance was complemented by a spatial representation at reference level: the music wasn't just scattered over the room, the room itself became the object of the imaging. Without any effort the intimate atmosphere of a jazz club (Jazz at the Pawnshop) and likewise the vastness of a nave flooded by organ and saxophone (Antiphone Blues) was opened up. Even though the Triga Neo Pro feels at home with any type of music: sensational is the reproduction of spicy and powerful funk (James Morrison: Scream Machine). Each fibre is full of exploding energy and intensity. The selected volume setting is not necessarily the reason for this performance: even at moderate volume they radiate joy. Off we go all the more, when the volume control is cranked up: nothing was holding them now. Irrespective of the volume, all drivers - not only the woofer - don't seem to have any dynamic limitation."

conclusion

"The Triga Neo Pro's reproduction is as powerful and dynamic as you would wish for and at the same time subtle, with great attention to detail and superb three-dimensionality. And physically the speaker is not that big. But then bristling with such concentrated and perfectly tuned technology that they are rising above their physical appearance. A splendid project.":

Our kit consists of

Kit without cabinet, price per speaker EUR 1164,00
 

Kit with high-end crossover

In our high-end version bigger inductors in series to the woofer are used. The capacitor in series to the woofer is an electrolytic CAP uneched (14 x 100 uF in parallel) instead of an etched type. In series to the mids copper foil inductors are used, like the 18 dB parallel inductor for the ribbon. The crossover parts are:

• Mundorf, electrolytic capacitor, etched, 220 uF/63 Vdc
• Mundorf, electrolytic capacitor, unetched, 220 uF (4 x 56uF in parallel)
• Mundorf, electrolytic capacitor, unetched, 1400 uF (14x100 uF100 in parallel)
• 2x Mundorf MCap RXF capacitor 1.0 uF / 600 V
• Mundorf MCap RXF capacitor 1.5 uF / 600 V
• Mundorf MCap RXF capacitor 4.7 uF / 600 V
• Mundorf MCap RXF capacitor 15 uF (6.8 und 8.2 uF in parallel)
• Mundorf MCap RXF capacitor 15 uF / 350 V
• Mundorf MKP capacitor 100 uF / 400 V
• Mundorf MKP capacitor 8.2 uF / 400 V
• Mundorf MKP capacitor 10 uF / 400 V
• Mundorf MKP capacitor 15 uF / 400 V
• Mundorf baked varnish air core coil BL71, 0.22 mH/0.34 Ohm
• Mundorf baked varnish air core coil BL71, 1.8 mH/1.22 Ohm
• Mundorf baked varnish air core coil BL71, 22 mH/5.66 Ohm
• Mundorf baked varnish air core coil BL100, 3.3 mH/1.05 Ohm
• Mundorf baked varnish air core coil BL100, 10 mH/1.9 Ohm
• Mundorf copper foil coil CFC16-0.56mH/0.24Ohm
• Mundorf copper foil coil CFC16-1.0mH/0.33Ohm
• Mundorf t200 transformer core coil 6.8mH/0.18Ohm
• MOX10 resistor 0.47 Ohm/10Watt (yellow-purple-silver)
• MOX10 resistor 0.82 Ohm/10Watt (grey-red-silver)
• MOX10 resistor 3.9 Ohm/10Watt (orange-white-gold)
• MOX10 resistor 4.7 Ohm/10Watt (yellow-purple-gold)
• MOX10 resistor 10 Ohm/10Watt (brown-black-black)
• MResist Supreme 1.5 Ohm / 20 Watt
• MResist Supreme 4.7 Ohm / 20 Watt
• MResist Supreme 6.8 Ohm / 20 Watt

Kit with high-end crossover without cabinet, price per speaker EUR 1429,00

Impedance correction

If you want to use a valve amplifier with this speaker an impedance correction should be employed. In this case the component quality is less important; therefore, we offer only one kit (upon request higher quality components are available).

• Mundorf, electrolytic capacitor, unetched, 15uF / 70 Vdc
• Mundorf air core coil L71, 0.1 mH/0.22 Ohm
• resistor 6.8 Ohm/20Watt

Price per impedance correction for one speaker, to be mounted on a small wooden board.   EUR 7,05

Raster-Leiterplatten

If you prefer to mount the crossover components on a 240 x 165 mm universal PCB instead on wood:
Universal PCB RA240, order no.. I-2767, price per unit: EUR 7,60
We recommend two boards per kit (4 boards for a speaker pair)