Duevel

After building directly radiating loudspeakers, first without and lateron with horns, for over twenty years, we reached the point aiming to lift the music reproduction to the next level. The discontentment grew and with it the readyness to try omnidirectional loudspeakers. The thought of constructing the horns radial radiating was born and, surely, the first tries were pitiful. But using powerful drivers and up- and downwards directed horns and playing them through a specifically designed hornerection without the extreme focus of the horn and the faintness of radial radiating systems showed a huge potential. Years of hard hearingwork to give the concept the deserved entry followed.The choice for drivers soon restricted on professional material and the design of the crossover only admitted a special Duevel two-way crossover. The omnidirectional horndesign follows different laws than the direct one which forced us to a certain point to do fundamental research. The year of 1997 the first prototype of a radial radiating hornloudspeaker stood in front of us, the “Jupiter”.