Cabasse is named after its founder, Georges Cabasse, who founded the company in 1950. Georges Cabasse has a special talent - a unique memory for sounds. He uses that to perfectly reproduce the sounds of the music he loves, without any alteration or distortion.
He is a relentless innovator dedicated to transmitting and sharing his exacting requirements to the rest of the Cabasse team. When you buy a Cabasse product you yield the fruits of that obsession and dedication.
Cabasse, a French company, 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.
By the start of 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 inch unit. They also performed comparisons between live sound and speaker sound and therefore focused their goals on high dynamics (for real sound pressure levels), high efficiency and low distortion levels.
In 1986 La Géodde 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 inch honeycomb membranes complement this 12.1 system.
In the nineties, Cabasse started to work on coaxial units in order to reduce directivity through a 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.
The company has been a pioneer in the electronics sector in Brest. In 2003, it built the new Cabasse Acoustic Center at the top of a unique network of enterprises, prestigious engineering schools and universities which are specialists in state-of-the-art technologies in telecommunications, underwater acoustics and electronics.
The Cabasse Acoustic Center holds all the Research and Development skills and expertise required to study new materials, create new membranes and drivers, design and manufacture prototypes, take measurements in anechoic rooms and run reliability tests, listen to and perfect equipment with the top sound professionals, etc.
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 Societty. This system, released in 2007, is called La Sphère and consists of two spheric coaxial speakers, a filter and four power amplifiers.
In 2006 Cabasse became part of Canon Europe. |
