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The Sunshine
By Holger Kraft
09 Aug 1997
A few words about listening impressions
As you can imagine, I am totally satisfied with the final result. But that is no wonder, because I built the speaker around my needs and my imagination how things should be. After all, let us try to go a little bit more in detail. The efficiency of the speaker is high enough to cooperate well with a single ended 300B tube, anywhere in the 90 dB range. The impedance is on a real high level, between 7,5 and 25 Ohms. These are the right circumstances to enjoy the typicall full bodied 300B sound with its realistic expression on voices and instruments. On the other hand the speaker is able to deliver a soundstage and a resolution like the best minimonitors. The bass response of the Sunshine is very deep and natural and misses the typical 60 to 100 Hz overshoot of the most commercial designs. Midrange is very open and detailed but very critical in terms of choosing the right electronics. Thin and sharp sounding transistor equipment will not perform well with the Sunshine, because you will hear exactly how poor they sound. The heights are outstanding good in my opinion. As I told, I love the sound of the Esotar tweeter. After a 'warm up' time of 15 to 30 minutes you will not hear that there is a tweeter at all. As a conclusion you can say the Sunshine is on a midway between the best big hornsystems and the best tiny minimonitors.
Of course, this is not a budget speaker project. The price for the complete parts, including wood, screws and damping material is around 3000 to 3500 DM. In my opinion the speaker is worth any penny of it and I try to sell my Contour 1.3 now. If you compare the material used in this project to the material used in commercial products you will recognize, that a commercial speaker made in the same way as the Sunshine would be in the price region between 10000 and 20000 DM. Remember, D. Burmester takes 3500 DM extra charge for the outboard crossover. 'so far so good' (direct translation from german).
All rights on this project do belong to the owner of the project: Holger Kraft, Talbergstr.15, 35644 Hohenahr, Germany. It is free for non commercial use only!!
If you have questions or problems please refer them to me.
Holger Kraft
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