Hawthorne Audio – Silver Iris
The Silver Iris by Hawthorne Audio is a 15″ coaxial driver coming with a crossover and especially tuned to run in an open baffle configuration. After that open baffle virus had me I was lucky to run into the Silver iris on the internet. There is also a review on TNT-Audio
. I did some further reading and was quite sure that these coaxials could be the drivers I’m looking for. The Silver Iris are running here since March last year and went through a few different set ups in baffles. The Hawthorne coaxials don’t require large baffles to run effectively and produce sufficient bass energy. If that’s not enough Hawthorne Audio offers the 15″ Augies, special bass drivers for open baffle use.
How do I describe the sound? I don’t know. The only thing I can say is that I listened to my CDs and records again just to discover things I hadn’t heard before. Some albums that couldn’t convince me before have now found their way back to my regular playlist.
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