I Made CSS Audio's Flagship Audiophile Speaker into an Absolute Monster! 20Hz ! 

This is way cool... and it is only 20 minutes away from me !!! I have no idea that such a company existed in my backyard ! I would have LOVED to host you Jay !!!

Does it sound better than Wilsons and Magicos? Yes or No? A single word answer is sufficient. Thanks.

@@wa2368 I will not compare my own design with other speakers on the market. Thank you for your understanding

Hey Jay, do they offer grills for us that have Children?

@@davidjosephgill9702 absolutely. Magnetic grills that is acoustically transparent is included :) I will go into more detail in another video but the top module also features a mechanism so that it cannot be easily tilted over. we weren't messin around for 2 + years ;)

Sure hope there are no sand cast resistors in there!

😂😂😂. I love Danny, but that is funny as hell.

Regarding x overs, after years of diy speakers, I always have out board x overs right behind my amps and run the cables to the speakers, just sounds better.

😂😂😂

@@arunindc6145 no sandcast resistors

The price is phenomenal - pair this with Schiit Tyrs and you are D O N E. : )

If these are 90% as clean and articulate as Wilson, I'd probably talk myself into buying a pair.

Hell yeah

100% agree. Top-level production all the way. Very impressed.

Well said

The upgrade path for these ... Have An external Cross-Over box with all the larger parts - tweakers heven =)

Coming soon

Well...what did you think?

the sweat and tears were real. Sometimes frustration but we did it and I couldn't be happier

I mean, I come across as robotic and fake to my wife so how do expect me to be in a video 😂

@@kerryarmes2786 unfortunately I can totally relate..particularly when I'm saying this like,"honey, this is the best. Dinner. Ever."

certainly something consider perhaps in the future for them. I do like AMT tweeters.

Yes. The original designer had some.

I have actually tried Miflex caps on my own time with a control group of friends and we found that it was smoothing things too much on my speakers much like the jupiter caps but slightly more. We may try jupiter caps with miflex bypass caps for future upgrades amongst other options for upgraded crossover options we will make available to owners. We want the upgrade to be an actual upgrade that brings a big difference

@@Jayiyagi interesting, I would also consider trying the Miflex/Jupiter with a 0.1uF Z-Cap bypass to improve focus. But from my experience, I know it's definitely tough to really see a big improvement, especially once you already have high-end caps, many times it's more "different" than "better," and will really depend on the tastes of the end user. Another option may be upgrading the primary resistors to something like Mills, and then upgrading the mid and tweeter coils to foil inductors.

Stop in for a listen sometime

Visit them and give them hell. I give you full permission 😂

1. They are fine close to wall boundaries. The video manual that I produced for these speakers will be sent to owners when they get the speaker for optimal set up in many different scenarios. 2. Electa amator and amati tradition was my inspirations

The time alignment is for the tweeter and midrange. Flexible time alignment "between" tweeter and midrange is something you get in flagship wilson designs and would have required this speaker to be 3 boxes per channel or more, which would have increased price and complexity to another level on this project. Perhaps another day :)

@@Jayiyagi Nah man, it's not that hard. Just try the test for yourself and then we should talk...

@@Jayiyagi we all know this was all “pre-planned” out. It’s the Version 2 in the making. 😉👍

It is not a DIY KIT! it's a finished speaker. Unfortunately this speaker is too complex of a design to put it into a DIY kit (ex. the 5 degree tilting mechanism in 1 degree increment) and DIY Kit version of this speaker won't really reduce the costs as we are not putting in labor or R&D cost into this project to reduce the cost heavily.

​@@Jayiyagi LOL, it's good you mention it!

He has massive competition between $2,000 and $4,000

midrange and woofers are identical quality and paper. It was important to match the tonality as well as capability of the drivers to integrate flawlessly between different cabinets and frequencies.

@@Jayiyagi I agree with that approach, plus offers the same polar pattern. Anyway, great job. So is this a kit, or fully built, and is the 5500.00 Cad or US. Thanks

The standard version (which is what we are shipping with the Jantzen caps) is packing lots of value that is hard to beat BUT even if we offer external crossover in the future, it is made so that users can easily swap or we can do it for them if they ship the top module back (that's right, the lower module is pretty much done, the shipping of the top module will be a lot easier and cheaper to do for a massive upgrade and we will only offer upgrades that is audibly superior in every way)

Although I didn't hit my goal as many economic and supply issues totally railed my price point, I don't feel too upset about it as many experts I consulted told me that this type of speaker performance at this price is insane and that even during normal economic times, this would have been hard to pull off. There is no secret here, all it was that we took R&D and time spent from both parties in the span of 2+ years out of the equation when calculating cost I will go into more detail about the speaker design, placement and all that and "manual" for the speakers will be me in a video explaining optimal set up process in almost every scenario. The typhons were designed so that it can be put into smaller rooms, close to wall boundaries and large rooms. The speaker performs incredibly well in many situations with control thanks to the flared port system for the bottom module as well the top module being a sealed design. My goal isn't just to make a great speaker and sell it, it is to have them sounding heavenly in every room for anyone that purchases it. Obviously if you room is WAY too small, I'd not advise these speakers but I do really mean... really small like speakers are few inches away from each other haha

@@Jayiyagi I look forward to learning everything I can about these speakers. Beside the fact that they are beautiful and as well, developed in concert with CSS - tells me that this project was a serious venture to bring high-end audio to market at (what I consider) to be a very reasonable cost. I take my hat off to you and those like you (rare) who have the tenacity and drive to do such. Thomas and his development of the Galion is another developer in the same league as you. Stay the course and I wish you the ultimate success.

Jantzen seemed to be a very fast cap nor was it a HUGE cap in comparison to other caps we have tried that tended to smear the image a bit with advantages in the sound staging. We didn't feel the need to use a bypass cap but we may consider it if we are using bigger caps for future upgraded crossovers that owners can swap out

Off course, first with Jantzen Z-Superior Cap. But it would be necessary to do the test with Miflex KPCU to know how close it is to the Duelund CAST Cu-Sn Loudspeaker Capacitor 100VDC - 2% tolerance

Duelund also has a polypropylene version much much more affordable but no idea how good it is.

Jantzen seemed to be a very fast cap nor was it a HUGE cap in comparison to other caps we have tried that tended to smear the image a bit with advantages in the sound staging. We didn't feel the need to use a bypass cap but we may consider it if we are using bigger caps for future upgraded crossovers that owners can swap out

ha. join the club.

This isn’t just a 1TDX on top. The angled baffle allows crossover slopes that aren’t possible on a flat baffle and the tilt mechanism allows you to keep that proper design pointed correctly at the listener.

@@kerryarmes2786 I may be wrong but the top portioned does not appear to be angled on its on--tilted with respect to the bottom section yes, but the tweeter and midrange on the top appear to be on the same plane. Hence, a non-ported 1TDx.

@@mabehall7667 the tilt mechanism allows you to maintain the proper 5 degrees off axis from the tweeter for this crossover regardless of your seating position. Our listening room couch sits low and we are at about 3 degrees of tilt. At AXPONA we used zero tilt because the seats were already at tweeter height.

Hey, I tried...

To me it looks likes everything was acted and set up in stage in this video..one big commercial ad. But hey, it's up to the viewer to decide 😊

@@justasimplefox You are correct and we were wearing same clothes so it wasn't set up to fool anyone. It was exactly how it happened and a summary of what happened for 2+ years. I wanted to show the behind the scene process but putting it all in one video was hard (I mean even this video was still around 50 minutes!) and I didn't think to film 2 years ago so we acted up exactly how it happened and it wasn't hard since we just repeated our main convos.

@@Jayiyagi I understand but I think you are 'playing' the good guy when asking for 3000$ knowing from the very start that this was simply impossible. You are of course financial involved so it makes sense to play along.

if you liked the 2td-x, the Typons are at a whole new level. It is not a subtle difference and I believe both me and css team believes so as they've stated in the video "the best speaker they have ever been involved with"

Jay, now that these shipped and I've had two evenings with the Typhons, I must concur. "New level". They really disappear and the realism is just spooky. They work better in my small untreated room better than the 2TD-X. No boominess, cleaner midbass, but they go really deep when called upon and have firm grip on kick drums etc Great soundstage. Congrats, they are fantastic!

If he or anyone else that wants to review it, they are welcome to