ΠΠΎΠ΄ΠΎΠ»ΡΡ ΠΌΠ°ΡΠ»Π° Π² ΠΎΠ³ΠΎΠ½Ρ ΠΏΠΎΠ΄ ΠΌΡΡΠ΅Π½ΠΈΠΊΠ°ΠΌΠΈ, ΠΈΡΡΡΠΈΠΌΠΈ ΡΡΡ AN ΠΊΠΎΠ»ΠΎΠ½ΠΊΠΈ.
ΠΠΊΡΡΡΠΈΠΊΠ° Π΄ΠΎΠ»ΠΆΠ½Π° Π±ΡΡΡ Π½Π΅ ΡΠΎΠ»ΡΠΊΠΎ ΠΈΠ·Π³ΠΎΡΠΎΠ²Π»Π΅Π½Π½ΠΎΠΉ Π² ΠΠ½Π³Π»ΠΈΠΈ, Π½ΠΎ ΠΈ Ρ ΡΠΏΠΎΠ½ΡΠΊΠΈΠΌΠΈ ΡΠ²ΠΈΡΠ΅ΡΠ°ΠΌΠΈ Tonegen *.
Re: Anyone know vifa part # for Snell II series replacements?
Posted by Peter Qvortrup (M) on February 2, 2006 at 05:29:55
In Reply to: Anyone know vifa part # for Snell II series replacements? posted by Will shade on February 1, 2006 at 18:10:01:
Dear Will,
The tweeters in the Snell J and E are Tonegen not Vifa AND they are no longer an available standard part, their original no was 94C70DS-00HD.
Tonegen was merged with Foster in Japan a few years ago and production transferred to Taiwan, in 2005 production moved to China.
I hope the above catalogue number helps you, if not come back to me, our current tweeters are similar in characteristics to the old Tonegen, but about 6 dB more efficient, so you need to rework the crossover settings a little to get a good balance.
Sincerely,
Peter Qvortrup
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Tonegen Co., Ltd
Japanese loudspeaker manufacturer based in the city of Osaka in Kansai, primarily occupied as an OEM manufacturer of loudspeaker drivers and as such you will more often find their products branded as Bowers & Wilkins (B&W), JBL, JVC so on and so forth, than with the company name itself on the second hand market. The company is best known for their high end woofers and ribbon tweeters and were in their time considered one of the best volume driver manufacturer in the world a, but is should be kept in mind that they made products to spec so that in between quality stuff they manufactured budget drivers for concerns such as Bolivar Speaker Works and Radio Shack. The company was taken over by Foster Electric Company in 1986 but they continued to use the Tonegen name for a few years afterwards but have since closed the original factory, the R&D division in Osaka still exists (or did so until recently) and is sometimes referred to as Tonegen colloquially.
The company also had a USA based subsidiary called Culver-Tonegen that operated mostly as a sales office but they did contribute to custom designs of speakers and drivers for their USA customers, after the Foster takeover they were known as Foster-Culver. BTW the name of the company is often misspelled Tonigen.