founded 1950 headquarters plouzan france key people jean yves bouvet mar chal chairman products loudspeakers website www.cabasse.com cabasse is a french audio manufacturer founded by georges cabasse in 1950 . it is mainly known for its home loudspeakers but has also produced professional audio speakers for studio recording or sound reinforcement in theatres and power amplifiers . contents 1 important dates 2 notable products and technologies 3 references 4 external links important dates edit 1950 foundation . 1952 first 2 way coaxial speakers for cinemascope movie theatres like le grand rex in paris . 1958 first active loudspeakers systems with valve amplifiers and filters . 1965 underwater loudspeakers for the french navy . 1974 dome tweeters and midranges servo controlled active hi fi and monitor loudspeakers used by radio france . 1983 honeycomb dome membranes for hi fi and public address systems from 7 to 22 . 1984 carbo high efficiency units for the 4 way clusters fitting the 12 channel system at the omnimax theatre la g ode in parc de la villette paris . 1985 duocell membranes based on an exclusive processing of rohacell foam . 1992 the scs principle spatially coherent system launched with the atlantis reference system 4 channel and 5 speakers 2 woofers and a 3 way coaxial speaker called tc21 that goes from 200 hz to 20 khz . 1998 fitting of the charles de gaulle aircraft carrier with specific 117 db efficiency horn systems . 2002 the tc22 reference 3 way coaxial unit that goes from 80 hz to 20 khz . 2006 la sphere a 4 way coaxial unit is launched . 2006 cabasse is bought by canon europe and will be led by kazuhiro otsubo president of the canon factory in brittany . 2014 start up group awox buys cabasse from canon . 1 notable products and technologies edit cabasse is one of the oldest loudspeakers manufacturer in france and is known for its involvement in research its high standard of quality and the names of their products that used to be related to sea especially boat names like clipper sampan ketch sloop ... in the eighties their reputation came from their professional active speakers often used by recording studios and the honeycomb membranes that allowed high power with low distortion . these membranes were used by the very small galiote home hi fi and the huge saturn a subwoofer for theatres fitted with a 22 inches unit . they also used to perform astounding comparisons between live sound and speakers sound and therefore focused their goals on high dynamics for real sound pressure levels high efficiency and low distortion levels . in 1986 la g ode was inaugurated and it remains the only 12 channel omnimax in the world . for special low frequency effects 4 giant subwoofers 100 cubic feet for 2000 lb fitted with 2 x 22 inches honeycomb membranes complement this 12.1 system . in the nineties cabasse started to work on coaxial units in order to reduce directivity through spherical wavefront . this is their spatially coherent system principle . it was implemented through the tc21 a 3 way coaxial unit whose bandwidth goes from 200 hz to 20 khz with a 30 off axis response very close to the on axis response . at the beginning of 2006 they unveiled a high end 4 way unit and presented the theoric approach in a paper at the audio engineering society . this system released in 2007 is called la sph re and consists of two spheric coaxial speakers a filter and four power amplifiers . references edit http www.awox.com news acquisition cabasse awox external links edit cabasse official website aes paper october 2005 theory and advantages of a 3 ways co axial loudspeaker aes paper may 2006 directivity control of a 3 ways co axial loudspeaker thanks to a retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cabasse company & oldid 729673959 categories loudspeaker manufacturerscompanies of franceaudio equipment manufacturersmanufacturing companies established in 19501950 establishments in france navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran aisitaliano edit links this page was last modified on 13 july 2016 at 20 10 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view