El Diablo

The latest version launched in 2021 is a complete redesign from the original. The cabinet drive units and crossover are significantly improved. The main objective of the design and development process was to create a balanced and natural sounding loudspeaker capable of captivating sound reproduction at all listening levels with minimal distortion. The heavy and extremely well damped cabinet is equipped with a ported double bass driver configuration. The specially designed drive units can reproduce all music from the highest tones to the lowest frequencies without compromising dynamics.

The total weight for each Dragon Legacy loudspeaker exceeds 225kg. The sidewalls consist of 4 layers of rigid but highly damped material with a combined thickness of 50 mm in places. The connection of the 5 compartment segments internally is a combined 85 mm thick. There are 4 types of adhesives used in the construction process all for their specific individual properties. For laminating the HDF the development team specified a foam vibration glue that never hardens entirely. For cabinet construction 2 types of glue are used in a hybrid way a hard carpenter glue in a mix with a thick acoustic glue. For the leather sections a thick paddingcontact glue is used. The crossover system is mounted into a dedicated sealed chamber which is highly damped. This chamber is entirely filled with sand to eliminate all possible microphonic effects when playing. The sand used is oven dried and is commonly employed in the sandblasting business. It is 0.3-1.0 mm because the grain size matters! This provides a stable temperature environment even at the highest listening levels as the sand draws out heat from all the components allowing the ultra-high-performance components to perform in their optimum state. The cover layer of the top and side walls consists of 14mm of solid real wood not only to ensure rigidity but also to further dampen any unwanted resonances. Six elegant but very strong adjustable stainless-steel feet mounted on substantial steel bars are decoupled from the main cabinet. Using the finest ceramic ball bearings internally as contact points gives the perfect grounding to the loudspeaker. When listening to small musical ensembles and quiet passages the Dragon Legacy reproduces sound like a small super high-end bookshelf loudspeaker however play Tchaikovsky’s fortissimos and you will experience a real “thunderstorm”.