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Height: 1250 mm
Width: Top: 240 mm Bottom: 370
mm
Depth: Top: 350 mm Bottom: 600
mm
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* Very efficient multi driver design
based on the famous 'Symphony'
* 6DB/Octave Midrange / Tweeter Purist
Crossover.
* No Capacitors or Resistors in the
Midrange.
* Components and Leads hard wired with
Silver Solder
- * Useable Bass Response down to
20HZ
* Rear-Firing Tweeter; User adjustable
in 6 steps
* 4 OHM nominal impedance. Purely resistive
midrange load
* 12" carbon fibre woofer powered by
150 watt amplifer and electronic cross-over, with adjustable gain
and cross-over.
* Outboard mounted Crossover, bi-wire
terminals
* Ultra rigid, heavily braced 25mm
(1") thick tapered cabinet with radiused edges and front felt
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The 
"MAESTRO"
is a much more efficient design based on our famous Symphony, using double
midrange and tweeters. This result is a livelier, more exciting sound. It
is in short, incredibly realistic, much more like 'being there'.
Listeners comment on the amazing realism, breathtaking excitement and incredibly
low coloration of the design. As for the Symphony, the design philosophy for
the MAESTRO was to provide as accurately as possible a recreation of the recording
event.
This means that you should hear the instruments and musicians exactly Os they
were recorded; tonally (timbre), spatially (imaging) and communicating the
music (musicality).
To achieve this, several very important criteria had to be met. High on the
list of these criteria is tonality, especially midrange tonality. This is
the single aspect of reproduction which is almost never met in loudspeaker
design. Especially since the advent of the compact disc and a new generation
of recording engineers in the studios midrange accuracy has suffered.
Some two-way loudspeakers using very simple crossovers and some electrostatic
speakers achieve a high level of midrange accuracy, and it was this accuracy
that we wanted to achieve in a truly full range system, without the need for
sub-woofers, stands, mini monitor brightness or the dispersion and space problems
of electrostatics. For this reason, the midrange/upper bass drivers and the
tweeters are housed in a separate, sealed enclosure inside the main loudspeaker
box.
The crossover for these drivers is a 6db/octave, phase coherent, hard wired
design using premium quality parts, with nothing but an inductor (ie. only
wire) in the critical midrange - no capacitors, no resistors. Because this
internal enclosure is very small, the midrange/upper bass driver rolls off
the bass acoustically, so there are no capacitors or resistors to distort
the midrange. An added benefit of our internal box system is that it adds
a lot of rigidity to the main cabinet structure. The mid/bass unit and tweeter
match each other perfectly in 'sonic signature' - no metal dome tweeter here
being mated to some other material in the midrange.
The careful blend and integration of the drive units in the 'MAESTRO' achieves
perfect coherence: the sound is simply ONE sound, not bass, midrange and treble.
The metal dome tweeter on the rear of the speaker is user adjustable in output
and has the effect of throwing a soft natural light onto the sound stage.
Bass is provided by a 200 watt carbon fibre customized 12" woofer, driven
directly by a l5Owatt amplifier. Crossover is electronic, with adjustable
gain and frequency. This system allows use of a moderately powered amplifier
for the main speaker and relieves the same of having to reproduce bass, resulting
in greater midrange clarity and treble smoothness, compared to driving the
speaker fullrange.
In other words, it takes the strain away from your main amplifier. Because
the voice coil of the bass driver is driven directly by a l5Owatt amplifier,
the bass is super tight and fast, with tremendous weight; no large inductors
here slowing the bass down! Furthermore, the cross-over/amplifier module can
be directly hooked up to the sub-woofer output of a Home Theatre processor/preamp.
Being fully adjustable, the system also allows for TOTAL integration of the
bass into the room.
What the 'Maestro' achieves is completely natural midrange & treble reproduction:
instruments sound exactly as they should; there is lots of tonal colour, through
proper tonal differentiation precise imaging and sound staging - you hear
the performers exactly where they were recorded, with audible space between
them.
A totally silent background inter-transient silence is unparalleled, so that
you hear nothing but the notes, without any smearing whatsoever; all the strands
of music are unravelled, thus easily heard. Exceptional dynamic reproduction,
both micro and macro, without any hardening when the music gets loud. Superlative
musicality: all the emotion of the music and musicians is faithfully communicated,
as is the structure of the music.
All these factors allow the listener to become totally involved in the music,
in a way never achieved before.
In short, this loudspeaker truly lives up to its name, for it is indeed
.
