8” 2-Way, In-Ceiling, Coaxial, Infinite Baffle Loudspeaker
The easy to install FIT804FL is a full-range ceiling loudspeaker
with Focused Image Technology™. It incorporates an ultra light
woven Carbon Fiber woofer with a butyl rubber surround and the diffraction-less
ceramic coated aluminum dome pivoting Ferrofluid cooled tweeter.
The FastLoc™ grill patent no. 8,422,722, is a feature found only
at Current Audio. Our design has allowed for the smallest exposed plastic bezel in
the industry, truly making it disappear into the mounting surface. The
FastLoc™ grill's unique patent pending mechanism allows for a quick
installation and removal of the grill while securely fastening it in place to all
types of mounting surfaces. Due to the unique design the grill will conform to
uneven surfaces including popcorn, heavy textured and uneven ceilings. While our
competitors have chosen to utilize magnets in their
designs thus requiring the use of a steel grill that will rust our design allows
us to use corrosion and rust resistant aluminum.
The FIT series speakers additionally incorporate the unique Patent Pending Three
Dimensional Positioning (3-DP) woofer. This design allows the user to separately
adjust the angle, tilt and rotation of the woofer so you can direct the sound where
you want it, not where you install it.
The Positive Position Lock system (PPL) uses two screws on either side of the
woofer that pull the back plane tight and locks the position in place.
The Infinite Baffle design makes it the ideal choice for typical applications in
open beam attic or enclosed ceilings.
Driver Material: Woven Carbon Fiber
- Without a doubt this is my favorite material. Woven carbon fiber is used in
aerospace and Formula 1 race cars. Five years of research through trial and error
has resulted in a superior state of the art material.
- Woven carbon fiber has a very low moving mass. The lowest moving mass of any
cone material. It also has the highest stiffness of any of the materials available.
The ideal driver cone has no moving mass is stiff to allow a perfectly linear,
pistonic movement of the driver cone / voice coil assembly.
- The midrange articulation is amazing with this material. Neutral, uncolored
midrange. One of toughest challenge in midrange performance is reproduction of a
female vocal. You listen to this driver versus other materials and manufactures you
can really hear the difference. The woven carbon fiber allows for extremely detailed
vocals. There are no "muddy" overtones.
- The other outstanding characteristic is transient response. The speed at which
a driver cone can move forward and backwards in a linear fashion. Low moving mass
allows for the driver cone to react quickly while the stiffness of the cone allows
for a linear motion that won't allow for distortion in the low frequency range. This
gets rid of the boomy bass or muddy bass associated with inferior designs. Many
manufacturers try to get more bass by using loose and floppy mechanical suspension
instead of using high stiffness low mass assemblies.
Tweeter Material: Ceramic Coated Aluminum Dome Tweeter
- We take our 2 series aluminum dome tweeter material and add a sputtered
ceramic coating to the dome. The sputtering process is a coating of ceramic at a
molecular level. It is not "painted on" or dipped in ceramic. If it were, the
coating would be too thick, too heavy and inconsistent.
- Our ceramic coating imparts a stiffness on the center of the dome to prevent
high frequency distortion caused by dome deformation at high power levels in high
frequencies.
- We make adjustments in the voice coil materials to offset the small additional
mass that the ceramic coating adds. This allows for the efficiency of the tweeter to
be maintained and the high frequencies to be extended.