This is an unmistakable member of the Charukeshi family, and is powered with a hybrid active-passive xo.
The Charukeshi Mark II is the second of a family of 3-way designs all of which look similar. (The Adana is the first of a similar family of 3-ways which look very different from the Charukeshi line.)
All the Charukeshi designs
- Are 3-way designs, large standmounts, with a TMW configuration
- Some are purely passive xo, others are hybrid active-passive, like the Shankara
- The ones with a passive xo are ported, the active xo designs are sealed.
Design notes
After The Darbari, I decided to try new designs with the same basic principles but with simpler build and higher quality of drivers. (After all, the planning for the Darbari and that for the Charukeshi II had a 12-year gap, in between which I had had the pleasure of living with the Darbari for a few years.)
Luckily, I had a larger budget to build with than during the Darbari period, so I could choose expensive drivers. Everything described in the Design Notes of the Shankara apply here, the only difference being a different midrange, and the choice of a different tweeter.
Drivers
The woofer of the Shankara is being used here, so there is nothing more to write about that.
The midrange here is substantially different: it’s a paper-cone Satori, the MR13PNW. This driver is expected to give a very different texture than the metal-cone Jordan Eikona in the Shankara.
The tweeter too here is expected to be the TW29R, a fabric ring radiator known for its smoother and gentler texture than the Shankara’s beryllium dome.
The enclosure
There is no difference between the enclosures of the Shankara and Charukeshi II. The woofers being the same, the woofer chamber has been designed to have the same size in both. The midranges have different sizes but both fit very well in the midrange chambers of the respective enclosures. The tweeters are both from the Satori range and are mechanically drop-in replacements.
Therefore, there is literally no relevant information to be shared here — the Shankara enclosure forms the reference.