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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
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| LOUDSPEAKERS 447 NORTH ROAD ORMOND VICTORIA 3204 AUSTRALIA |
Telephone: +61 3 9576 9990 Fax: +61 3 9576 9991 |