Norman has been designing and building speakers for “as long as he can remember” has vast experience in all driver manufactures and had no problem finding robust, ultra low distortion units proven in previous custom systems.

The compact ring radiator tweeter is the latest evolution from Frank Neilson of Scan-Speak fame. Tom Elmhirst heard them and described them as “effortless”. 

The 6.5” mid-bass uses a lightly coated paper cone and massive state of the art “underhung” motor for the perfect combination of richness, detail and low distortion.

The rear loaded 10” sub driver can handle twice the power of any other 10” sub in a studio monitor on the market. It uses multiple copper rings in the motor for the lowest distortion at high output we have ever measured. 

Unlike the endless sea of lifeless DSP “corrected” studio monitors, the SixTen uses a passive discrete crossover between the midrange and tweeter that is the result of 20 years of empirical research, development and tireless listening tests. The crossover between the sub driver and mid-bass is a proprietary active filter that operates at line level and is built into the outboard 3U amplifier system. 

The amp also has controls to achieve perfect balance between the mid/bass and sub drivers for your room and a stepped by-passable inductor based midrange presence control for fine tuning in the critical 800hz to 2khz region. 

The system is completed with a 4 channel Ncore amplifier that delivers 550 watts at 2 ohm with .005% THD (X2) Plus 120 watts (x2) The same technology has found it’s way into $50,000 “high-end” amplifiers.