Jordan Eikona 2 Driver

[Dauntless]

Has anyone any experience of building a speaker around this driver? Wilmslow Audio offer a kit for a floorstander built with this driver, the VTL. I wondered about the results? Looking at the frequency charts it gets a little up and down and I wondered how this would impact on listening? The kit itself looks easy enough to make. Has anyone built this speaker?

[Pharos]

There is a long ongoing thread on this on the old AVI forum, (HDDaudio). Worth a look.

[ianlenco]

I have a pair of Jordan VTLs with the older JX92s drivers and they work very well. Treble can be a bit lively but the general advice to toe them in well works. I'm told the Eikona 2s are a smoother driver with more bass so should sound very good in the VTL.

[Dauntless]

I have a pair of Jordan VTLs with the older JX92s drivers and they work very well. Treble can be a bit lively but the general advice to toe them in well works. I'm told the Eikona 2s are a smoother driver with more bass so should sound very good in the VTL.

Thanks, Nice speakers. Shouldn't be too difficult to fit the new drivers if you decide to go that way!

[danilo]

I have a pair of Jordan VTLs with the older JX92s drivers and they work very well. Treble can be a bit lively but the general advice to toe them in well works. I'm told the Eikona 2s are a smoother driver with more bass so should sound very good in the VTL.

Attractive speakers.
Few years back I was on about building a pair of those (or their fraternal twins) speakers (gray ones).
I liked the look of them .. Still do.
It was suggested (repeatedly) Not to. As that design was allegedly flawed.
Shoulda ignored the naysayers.. I suspect.

[steve-z]

Hi everyone, I'm not sure if this is my first post or not, if it isn't then the last one must be a while ago, apologies.
Came across this thread with interest as I started using a pair of Jordan Eikona 2 VTLS a few months ago, got mine from BK Electronics fully built up in bare mdf and I finished them off myself in gloss white, I diverged slightly from what you've seen of this model by swapping the rectangular foot of the speakers for a larger circular foot which I find much better from a stability point of view. I've been highly delighted with the sound quality of the VTLs particularly in the last couple up of days since buying a Cambridge CXA60 amp to drive them. They are one of the most well sorted and best sounding DIY design around imo. I keep in touch with Jordan via Facebook where a lot of the Eikona 2 designs are posted but I have never seen the intriguing twin driver ported reflex shown in this thread, could the owner give some background on the design.
Steve

[ERICLIMPIT]

I am currently constructing my second pair of speakers with Eikona 2 drivers, the first (a Jordan VTL) worked impressively well & was easy peasy to construct, the current ones are my take on the Eikona DCR using 2 drivers per speaker but as a standmount I will post pics of them on here in a few days. If you want to build your own speakers then the Jordan Eikona 2 is a superb quality driver I would highly recommend using.

[Dauntless]

I am currently constructing my second pair of speakers with Eikona 2 drivers, the first (a Jordan VTL) worked impressively well & was easy peasy to construct, the current ones are my take on the Eikona DCR using 2 drivers per speaker but as a standmount I will post pics of them on here in a few days. If you want to build your own speakers then the Jordan Eikona 2 is a superb quality driver I would highly recommend using.

Looking forward to that!

[ERICLIMPIT]

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Ready to be polished this week will post more soon as they are

[ianlenco]

Very nice Roger but I think you should go back to VTLs and sell me the drivers you'll have spare Seriously, they look great.

Do you have a pic of your VTL cabinets?