Audax made the Aerogels. To my knowledge Focal never has. Eric warned me recently of hardening rubber surrounds in his stash and recommended I check mine.
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Those goofy offcenter vc Tang band drivers are on clearance:
Thatās a strange one!
My engineering personality would never be able to sit and look at those.
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Still too rich for a pair of cross-eyed mids 
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I understand why they tried. Smooths out the diffraction from the surround, and the variable geometry of the cone could also smooth out breakup.
My CDO wouldnāt tolerate those.
The AX Test Bench review wasnāt as good as Iād hoped.
MY OCD canāt tolerate your CDO. 
They should be in alphabetical order, CDO, not OCD.
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Ordered the white satori 19 ones from https://en.toutlehautparleur.com/ . They are available locally and is cheaper with login including shapping. There didnāt seem to any additional charges expect for a 3% bank charge since I used a credit card. Letās see if there are any additional charges later on. Fedex had send me an invoice a few weeks later with custom charges when I had ordered from Audio Technology - this was a few years back
David, did you get any other invoice?
Nope. I somewhat expected to get something, but figured it would be 10 or 15% if I got something, which I would have been okay with.
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Rewind a sec, Ani, you have Audio Tech drivers?
Watcha doin with those?
Nothing at the moment, but I have a quad of cquenze 6ā midranges 12 ohms.
lol
A Pair 2pcs of MeloDavid Audio PTT6.5P 6.5inch Wool mixed paper midbass woofer
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Looks niceā¦
/speculation=on - I suppose its a bit like buying aftermarket headlights from China for 10+ year old vehicles - the construction looks fine however the things that matter like the smoothness and precision of the reflector surfaces and mounting points are all off due to making them from castings of the original parts. They work but nothing like the original. /speculation=off
They seem to be are alot more bold about making copies than they used to be. I speculate it comes down to: is the item still in production or not? If not then you get a very poor and ultra cheapened impersonation of the original. Because designing new items is expensive. If the parts are still in production then it is much easier to pull a bunch of boxes of original parts and start gluing them together. From what I gather you can order all kinds of ācustomā stuff locally, either straight from the manufacturer.. or maybe just from the on-site production manager who quietly slips the order in between main production batches. It also seems like alot of parts are somewhat universal in fitment within a range of dimensions. So they do things like swap a cheaper stamped frame in place of a cast unit. Which IMO is fine because you can at least see that, but other stuff might be harder to detect. If practical enough to do so, they might possibly be able to omit a copper cap or use different magnets, pole piece, top plate, etc. Maybe a different spider if the original is not compatible with the cheaper frame. Stuff that would alter the specs but is near impossible to notice in grainy photos. So I bet the materials quality is just as good as any production unit, but how well the new combination of parts works together is probably a dice roll. Caveot emptor.
RESTOCKED Visaton B100 $70. Anyone have experience with these?