HI Erik- the bending wave driver IS alive and well. The original designer of the Lineaum tweeter and later the Impact speakers (Paul Paddock) has designed a HUGELY impressive new speaker called the Forty 10 for a company named MCAudiotech (http://mcaudiotech.com) which I have heard several times and it is VERY impressive indeed.
Gobel and the Bending Wave
An article at Stereophile regarding the Gobel
Divin Noblesse
speaker caught my eye recently:
https://www.stereophile.com/content/g%C3%B6bel-loudspeakers-cables-engstr%C3%B6m-pre-and-power-wadax...
Jason Victor Serinus made a simple mistake and listed the AMT tweeter as a "bending wave" transducer. He's corrected the error, but the "fix" was just as curious. According to the Gobel website, and JVS's correction, the midrange drivers, which for all the world look like FaitalPro 8" mids to me are "bending wave" transducers in this model.
http://www.goebel-highend.de/products/divin-noblesse.html
These midranges look nothing like the bending wave planar transducers used in the Epoque line, or described by their technology page here:
http://www.goebel-highend.de/technology.html
So, without being able to order and disassemble these $190K speakers, I'm really skeptical that this description of the midrange drivers is accurate.
That is all,
Erik
https://www.stereophile.com/content/g%C3%B6bel-loudspeakers-cables-engstr%C3%B6m-pre-and-power-wadax...
Jason Victor Serinus made a simple mistake and listed the AMT tweeter as a "bending wave" transducer. He's corrected the error, but the "fix" was just as curious. According to the Gobel website, and JVS's correction, the midrange drivers, which for all the world look like FaitalPro 8" mids to me are "bending wave" transducers in this model.
http://www.goebel-highend.de/products/divin-noblesse.html
These midranges look nothing like the bending wave planar transducers used in the Epoque line, or described by their technology page here:
http://www.goebel-highend.de/technology.html
So, without being able to order and disassemble these $190K speakers, I'm really skeptical that this description of the midrange drivers is accurate.
That is all,
Erik