Where Tasmanian timber meets uncompromising sound.
The Franklin
A large three-way speaker, built with nostalgia in mind, with the electronics they didn't have then.
A tribute to a different era
Big cabinets and big bass drivers used to matter for a reason. In the 1970s, generous enclosure volume and a properly sized woofer were the difference between a speaker that played music and one that filled a room with it. The Franklin takes that idea and rebuilds it with fifty years of driver and amplifier development behind it.
Three drivers, one job each
A 12" SB34NRXL75-8 woofer does the heavy lifting - deep, controlled, tuneful bass from a bass-reflex cabinet tuned to 28Hz.
Midrange is handled separately, by a 4" paper-cone SB12MNRX25-4 covering 680Hz to 3kHz. Low moving mass and high efficiency give it the clarity a dedicated midrange driver is supposed to deliver.
At the top, a 1" soft-dome SB26STAC-C000-4 die-cast aluminium faceplate, optimised rear chamber, full copper cap - hands over cleanly where the midrange leaves off.
Passive or active
Franklin F3WP -passive crossover, same topology across both handover points. Pair with a quality Amplifier 50-250 Watts
Franklin F3WA - active, with a Hypex Ncore NPA250-8 three-channel plate amplifier (250W LF / 125W MF / 125W HF), onboard DSP, and Linkwitz-Riley 4th-order crossovers. Every driver gets its own amplifier channel and its own correction.
Specifications
Dimensions: 725mm H × 455mm W × 403mm D
Sensitivity: 87dB
Impedance: 6Ω
Max SPL: 108dB
Bass tuning: 28Hz
Crossover points: 680Hz / 3,000Hz
Where Tasmanian timber meets uncompromising sound.
The Gordon
A two-way bookshelf speaker, handbuilt in Hobart.
You'll notice it before you can explain it
The Gordon disappears. What's left is a wide, layered stage, instruments and voices holding their own place in the room.
Built by hand, from timber that grew here
The result holds up as furniture on its own. It just happens to sound as good as it looks.
Two builds, one philosophy
The Gordon Jantzen
AUD $4,500 per pair
A precisely matched all-Jantzen signal path, built exactly to spec.
The Gordon Mundorf
AUD $5,200 per pair
A fully Mundorf signal path. MCap EVO Oil capacitors, copper foil coil in the woofer's series position, WBT binding posts, silver-gold-tin solder. Same voicing, finest available parts.
Neither is a lesser version of the other, just two expressions of the same speaker, the way timber choice is on the outside.
Finish
Offered in a range of Tasmanian timbers, from our eucalypt species through to the rarer Celery Top Pine, Myrtle, Blackwood, and Huon Pine. Can also be prepared in automative finish, hi gloss or matt.
Specifications
Frequency range: 45Hz – 24kHz
Sensitivity (2.83V/1m): 84dB
Nominal impedance: 5Ω
Max SPL: 105dB
Recommended amplifier: 50–150W
Crossover frequency: 3,000Hz
Enclosure type: Bass reflex
Port tuning frequency: 38Hz
Where Tasmanian timber meets uncompromising sound.
