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Fostex

Fostex makes loudspeaker drivers and audio equipment in Japan. Its high-frequency units can extend the top end of systems built around larger vintage horns.

Design & approach

Fostex’s catalogue spans complete loudspeakers, individual speaker units, horn supertweeters, headphones and associated electronics. Its component range is particularly relevant to the custom and vintage systems in this guide, where a Fostex high-frequency unit may complement another maker’s main loudspeaker rather than replace it.

Maker background & design sources ↗

Equipment index

Products in the rooms

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Venue equipment records, including their original model uncertainties. Shared-system entries retain the full recorded context.

From the maker’s world.

Products, process and directly attributed installations.

Venue equipment footage / HIghFIdelity Stereo

Berlin "Listening Bar Neiro" Altec A5 /Fostex T90A/ Voice of the Theater + Shindo 300B

A directly attributed product, design or installation film. The original publisher is credited below.

Hear it in the rooms.

Equipment, commissions and collaborations.

Berlin / Germany

Bar Neiro ↗

Equipment in use

Bar Neiro lists Fostex in its loudspeakers setup. The equipment details below reflect the venue record.

  • High-frequency unit: T90A

Inside the system

Neiro’s Garrard source and Shindo electronics feed a large Altec-based horn system, with a Fostex T90A handling the additional high-frequency role identified in the equipment list. Efficient horn systems are a plausible partner for relatively low-powered valve amplification, allowing substantial output without treating amplifier wattage as the only measure of suitability.

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