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Thinking inside the box
Inside this tour de force, you'll find the most
advanced AAD drivers and a crossover network
composed of tight-tolerance parts: air-core
inductors, polypropylene capacitors, and
wirewound resistors. In contrast to many high
performance loudspeakers, the crossover
components are specified to match the drivers
after they've been fully broken in. This
forward-looking approach insures that your
investment appreciates in sonic value as you use
your speakers.
The drivers themselves are equally impressive.
The active 5.25" woofer's motor assembly includes
a neodymium magnet and a 2" voice coil. Although
the coil is far larger than common practice dictates,
the combined coil/magnet motor results in superb
control to reproduce deep bass cleanly and
effortlessly. The metal alloy cone transmits this
powerful motor's signals without flexing and
distorting the resulting sound waves.
A rear-mounted 6.5" passive radiator augments the
active woofer without introducing the "chuffing"
noise common to ported enclosures that attempt to
reproduce the fundamental frequencies produced
by tympani, organ, double bass, or special effects.
It's suspension is made of neoprene rubber. In
addition to being far more stable than foam, it
contributes to the radiator's extraordinary 2"
excursion capability.
High frequencies are reproduced by one of the
most sophisticated ribbon drivers available
anywhere. A strong neodymium magnet places
needed flux energy very close to the ribbon itself
for the finest, most naturally detailed reproduction
of critical information. In fact, this tweeter's
response extends to well over 30 kHz without the
resonances that so often result in a rough and
fatiguing "edge" to the sound.
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