Six years after its introduction, with very little alteration, the Total Eclipse is being upgrade to the Series II. The changes involve the following:

1. Extender Feet with the oversize brass spikes are now standard. This not only represents an aesthetic enhancement but the speaker is now completely stable due to the widening of the footprint by 4”and consequently is not susceptible to being accidentally tipped over. As a result, the firmer foundation makes for tighter, punchier bass, greater transient precision and a more open, focused sound field.

2. TRS Extreme internal wiring is now standard.  The sonic affect is far greater transparency and immediacy from top to bottom. As a further bonus, speaker break in has been reduced by 50% due to the fact that Extreme cable is fully burned in within 100 hours.

3. Bass retuning. The low end of the Total Eclipse II has more body, weight and impact yet is still very tight and articulated.

4. Crossover – Has been altered to maximize all the changes incorporated into the Total Eclipse II.      

The award winning Total Eclipse (TAS Golden Ear Award, Editor’s Choice, Stereo Times Most Wanted Component, The Inner Ear Report 4 Musical note rating) is now better than ever as the Total Eclipse II. All the virtues of the original have been retained with strategic enhancements now incorporated in the Total Eclipse II. 

The Total Eclipse is the new reference loudspeaker by Coincident Speaker Technology. Based on the highly successful and critically acclaimed Super Eclipse, the Total Eclipse is in effect, the larger sibling of the Super Eclipse.  While adhering to the similiar design philosophies of the Super Eclipses, (i.e. D'Apollito driver configuration, narrow front baffle, mirror imaged side firing dual woofers) the Total Eclipse was designed to be a BIG sounding speaker capable of filling the largest of rooms with subwoofer type bass, tremendous impact, and dynamics.  The Total Eclipse is one of only a handful of available loudspeakers that is state of the art on both micro and macro levels.  It is the only loudspeaker so capable at a four figure selling price.

The difference between the Super Eclipse and Total Eclipse centers on the shift in design goal.  While it was imperative that the Total Eclipse be capable of exquisite detail and refinement, an uninhibited sense of dynamics and impact became the mandate.  The Total Eclipse had to satisfy the audiophile/music lover who demands a loudspeaker that is completely unruffled by reproducing the most demanding music at high listening levels.  In order to accomplish this feat, the speaker by necessity had to be fairly large, using drivers capable of moving a great deal of air. To that end we ended up with the following:


Enclosure:

While large, it still retained the elegant slim profile of the Super Eclipse.  To create an enclosure this sizable and yet rigid enough to cope with the large excursions of the massive woofers required a very special design and indeed that is what has been fashioned.  As with all Coincident speakers, spline joint construction is standard.  This tongue and groove joint technique creates an enclosure of incomparable tightness.
The midranges and tweeter are housed in their own sealed subenclosure to eliminate intermodulation distortion caused by the large air movements created by the dual woofers.  Further, this sealed subenclosure produces a perfect .707 Q for the midranges and rolls off the low frequencies acoustically rather than electrically by the use of further signal contaminating capacitors. 

As with all Coincident enclosures, the fundamental resonance frequency is tuned to a very high, sonically benign 350 hz..  Resonances at that frequency, while being virtually inaudible are easily dissipated out the enclosure and effectively transformed to thermal energy. The end result is an enclosure with no discernable sonic signature.

Drivers:

The dual side firing woofers are the 10" versions of the 8" units used in the Super Eclipses.  Their magnet assemblies are almost doubled and these woofers were specifically designed and manufactured to reproduce only low frequencies from 125 hz down to 24 hz with less than .5% IM distortion at 24 hz @ 110 db.  These woofers in the Total Eclipse enclosure provide true sub woofer performance yet sonically blend seamlessly with the mids and highs.

As with all Coincident speakers, only first order crossovers, employing the finest passive parts (polypropylene capacitors, large gauge OFC air core inductors, metal oxide resistors), all hardwired and matched to within 1% are used.  The inductor used for the woofers weighs in excess of 10 lbs.

The port used for the woofers is the specially flared aeroport.  This port minimizes air noise while reducing low frequency distortion by 20% over conventional cylindrical ports. 

The Total Eclipse is a genuine reference loudspeaker that is capable of reproducing all that is fed to it with a realism that makes it unique among loudspeakers selling for under $25,000.