70 years of innovation
February would have seen Ted Jordan’s 92nd birthday. When he passed away in 2016, the world lost a tireless innovator in the field of loudspeaker… Read more
Category: Audio design
Ikigai – a compact TL loudspeaker designed using SpicyTL
This fascinating project began in Jan 2018 when Andrea Rubino, a customer in Italy, bought a pair of Eikonas for use in a loudspeaker he… Read more
DIY – Eikona TL2 transmission line loudspeaker
The Eikona TLA is the highest performing loudspeaker design we have published for the Jordan Eikona full-range drive unit. It is capable of magnificent performance… Read more
Jordan Eikona 2 and the BBC LS3/5a
The BBC LS3/5a monitoring loudspeaker is a true hi-fi classic. Apart from the QUAD ESL57, it’ is difficult to think of a loudspeaker that… Read more
Passive, active, single
No, it’s not the title of the latest Richard Curtis rom-com. Passive, active and single refer to the three primary ways of designing hi-fi and… Read more
A history of Ted Jordan’s VTL Loudspeaker
Ted Jordan designed the VTL loudspeaker enclosure in the early 1990s. It used the Jordan JX92S full-range drive unit and saw commercial success as the… Read more
Audio Building Blocks 4
One of Ted Jordan’s most popular systems was the Linear Array. This vertical arrangement of four Jordan 50mm units gave many of the benefits of a… Read more
Audio Building Blocks 3
Last time we looked at a line array speaker system using 16 Jordan Eikonas per enclosure. Whilst capable of terrific performance, a 2.5m high loudspeaker may… Read more
Audio Building Blocks 2
In 1962, Ted Jordan designed the Jordan-Watts Module to work as both a stand-alone loudspeaker and a versatile audio building block. He revisited this idea,… Read more
Audio Building Blocks
One of the major design aims with the Jordan Eikona 2 is to provide a loudspeaker that is more than a full-range driver. The Eikona… Read more