BACKGROUND
Alessandro Schiavi and Paolo Tezzon share the spiritual and cul tural duty to authentically tribute some of the most fruitful princi ples of what could be defined as the “Italian school of electroa coustic design” for home interiors, in the humble hope of making them further evolve. “Didascalìa” is – eminently – a cultural ope ration: it’s about knowledge transmission. A knowledge that Ales sandro and Paolo strongly believe shouldn’t be lost. “Didascalia”, in ancient Greek language, means exactly “tea ching”, “knowledge” and it is the result of the creative imple mentation of several lessons coming from the school of Italian electro-acoustic design.

CONCEPT
There is a design concept which has been typical, which always characterized the “Italian school of electro acoustic for home in teriors”: the two-way configuration. Such a set-up is able to provi de the maximum amount of purity, immediacy and musicality to the reproduction. All the good things such a design choice is able to “bring to the table” come with limitations in terms of size of the soundstage and in terms of extension in the low frequencies. Didascalìa stays faithful to such a configuration but aim to over come those limitations with creative design solutions.

CABINET CONSTRUCTION
The two Didascalìa outside “wings” are obtained coupling to gether 8 seasoned solid walnut slats, cross grained and jointed with the use of a viscoelastic advanced glue which will allow freedom of movement to the slats themselves. Each slat has been seasoned for months to remove humidity present in the fibers and then vacuum roasted in order to further stabilize it. They are f inished with a “0 gloss” open pore water based natural painting. The outside wings of the lacquered version of Didascalìa are re alized by means of a sandwich construction involving 3 layers of extreme hi-density HDF enveloped by a tulipwood veneer. Such a construction matches the mass and the mechanical properties of the solid walnut version. The lacquering is about 8 layers of coating, each of them finely hand polished by the skilled artisans. An advanced CNC machining gives to the wings their final shape, which is functional in many ways: they are carved inside provi ding a reflection and standing waves free loading volume to the speaker units. They also provide to the overall cabinet a “constrai ned layer damping mode” construction for a virtually resonan ce-free enclosure. More, their front part is designed for loading the transducer’s emission, optimizing their dispersion pattern while allowing Didascalìa to sound big and complete.
The Didascalìa cabinet main structure is realized with a combina tion of HDF and high-pressure multilayer Baltic birch wood while sub-structural ribs are strategically placed inside to strengthen the 0 verall structure. The Didascalìa cabinet construction is further op timized in its damping/stiffness ratio by means of Aluminum CNC machined “damp-shelves” which acts like collectors and dissipators of any residual vibration while creating an exo-skeleton, enveloping the cabinet’s main structure. A state-of-the-art implementation.