Snell LCR7

the flagship of Joe D'Appolito's Series 7 speakers. Its twin 5.25" magnesium-cone woofers, with their copper-finished, stationary "phase plug" mounted on the end of the pole-piece and a low-profile cast basket, are sourced from Norwegian company SEAS, as is the Sonotex-dome tweeter. The Millennum-series tweeter has a neodymium magnet, a sealed back chamber, and more unusually, a silver-wire voice-coil. The short flare around the tweeter's dome is also finished in copper, and its faceplate is cut away to allow close mounting to the woofers. All three of the expensive SEAS "Excel" drive-units are magnetically shielded, and the response of each sample of the LCR7 is guaranteed to be within ±0.5dB of the target. The crossover is complex, with high-order slopes, and is mounted on the internal face of the terminal panel. Internal wiring is fairly small gauge, and press-on connectors are used to hook up the drive-units rather than solder joints. Electrical connection is via twin pairs of five-way binding posts on an inset panel on the speaker's rear.