Cabasse (undertaken)

Cabasse , undertaken French E created in 1950 by Georges Cabasse, specialized in the Pregnant manufacture of S Acoustic S top-of-the-range.

Cabasse is known in particular for its role of pioneer in the modern Acoustique and the manufacture of coaxial enclosures, whose company was made a speciality after several decades of research and innovation. Moreover, guarantee with life of its Loudspeaker S.A. largely contributed to the Brand image of the company.

History

Pioneers of modern acoustics

The founder of the company, Georges Cabasse, Physicist and Musician, is downward several generations of craftsmen Luthier S French (since 1740). He impassioned himself as of his youth for the music, assistant with many concerts of Piano which developed at his place a sensitivity to quality of the sound reproduction. He started to manufacture loudspeakers and carried out recordings with the concern of as reproducing the sound close as possible of reality; thing which, with its astonishment, was not the priority of the manufacturers of the time, which according to him " were not very sensitive to the distorsion". The true starting of the activity of Georges Cabasse occurred in 1952 with the wiring for sound of the cinema Large Rex in Paris, the first room of France equipped in Cinémascope, for which it manufactured the Diphone , a high coaxial speaker of 36cm (12 cm for the acute one). It created the House of the loudspeaker , which carried out repairs and exchanges of loudspeakers. Its business started gradually, and Cabasse took part in April 1957 in the first " Week high-fidélité" , exposure under the aegis of the Re-examined sound and French Broadcasting-television (rtf), in company of Pathé-Marconi, Philips, Ducretet-Thomson, Avialex, Filson, Strapping man, Film & Radio and Teppaz. In 1958, Cabasse carried out the first enclosure with several Amplificateur S integrated. The Cabasse company under development was based then with Brest in 1959, and built one of the largest soundproof rooms of the world (2000 m ²), to carry out the tests necessary to the development of the enclosures.

1960 - 1990: perpetuation and innovation

The company then followed the conducting line inspired of its creator Georges Cabasse: the manufacture of enclosures privileging the output, the acoustic linearity and the realism of reproduction. The innovations followed one another with several series of enclosures and work with the professionals within the framework of special productions. Cabasse collaborates with the National marine in 1965 to equip the bridges with their boats and to manufacture enclosures under navy. In 1974, the Brest-native factory of the mark is devastated by a fire. Thereafter, research in particular makes it possible to develop a rigid dome applied to the loudspeakers of acute media (DOM4 and DOM12) then coupled for enclosures professional Hi-fi in 1975 (for Radio-France). In 1980, the structure “honeycomb” makes it possible Cabasse to apply their rigid domes to the low loudspeakers medium to low register for diameters from 17 to 55 cm. In 1986, alveolar foam is developed, little time after Duocell, a structure of thermoformée foam membrane.

The development of the coaxial ones

This work pushed on materials constitutive of the loudspeakers will lead the mark towards a series of new innovations, made possible by the quality of these materials. The company presented principle SCS, in 1992: Source with space coherence. According to the SCS, all the loudspeakers of the enclosure are on the same axis, forming a portion of pulsating Sphère at the time of the reproduction of sounds. This principle will give rise to many enclosures of the mark of which the Atlantis , an enclosure of 30 cm SCS 3 ways. The television channels TF1, France 2, France 3 and Canal+ acquired of Cabasse coaxial to wire for sound their studios. End of the the Nineties mark also the accession of Olivier Cabasse at the position of president of the company instead of his/her Georges father.

A new generation of Tweeter S is revealed in 1997, DOM 30 and DOM 40 intended to cover the Fréquence S medium and acute, as well as new coaxial domes BC 12 , the whole assembled on enclosures of various sizes according to the ranges.
Dans the continuity of development of coaxial loudspeakers, TC22 (3 ways coaxial) is developed in 2002.
L' company crosses difficulties then, and Jean-François Gautier (ex-chairman of Solomon) repurchases 70% and becomes chairman of them. Cabasse is directed then towards a strategy of Internationalisation and renewal of its range of enclosures, to benefit from the passion for the Home cinema.

In 2003, the company was installed in new buildings, on the technopolis of Brest-Iroise, and a soundproof Room benefitted from it to build (the last going back to 1960) and to modernize its wood production site with Saint-Bonnet-Tronçais (To combine).

Engineers de Cabasse then manage to add one 4th way of low to their TC23 with a Woofer of 55cm ( QC55 ), the whole constituting the enclosure Sphère , revealed in May 2006 at the time of a demonstration in its buildings of Brest.

The September 26th 2006, the group Japanese Canon announces the repurchase of Cabasse. For a few years, it had been the factory Canon of Liffré which assembled the Cabasse enclosures and dealt of the after-sales service and the Logistique. Kazuhiro Otsubo is named chairman company.

Specific projects

In addition to its activity in high-fidelity for domestic use, Cabasse with worked to offer solutions to the professional world:

Géode , wired for sound by Cabasse in 1984 using clusters 4 ways and of special filters, the whole forming 12 points of diffusion, plus 4 Subwoofer S (55cm).
In 1998, the mark equips the aircraft carrier Charles-of-Gaulle: the maximum output is privileged with enclosures house which can deliver 117 dB.

Cabasse also wired for sound the Town hall of Paris, the Cathédrale of Chartres, the Comic Opera of Paris, and the palate of the king of the Morocco.

the company collaborates in 2002 with Renault and its Sofar-Sofaita equipment supplier to equip the Berline Vel Satis with enclosures, the assembly being carried out by the equipment supplier.

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