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Three-way floor standing loudspeaker
When designing the Concorde, our main goal was to achieve the widest bandwidth
and the most precise transient response, while keeping it user friendly in terms
of cabinet size. Listening to the Concorde is, in more ways than one, an
unforgettable experience.
The sense of reality it conveys when recreating music is probably its most
striking characteristic.
The timbres and their harmonic structure are so truthful and vivid that each
instrument is portrayed in the most life-like and natural way. Those who enjoy
live music will find them astonishingly familiar, with that feeling of "déjà-vu"
springing from their concert hall experience.
Micro-details, that so many designs intentionally bring to the fore give a false
impression of transparency, are rendered the way you would really hear them, as
part of a wider musical environment.
The squeaking of a chair, the breathing of a performer, whispers, the hall
ambiance, each melt intimately into the music to recreate a coherent and global
message.
The perfectly designed loading system of its amazing woofer allows the Concorde
to go extremely low, and to do so without any cabinet resonance, and without
blurring low frequencies. Bass is deep, naturally sweet and bouncy, with
remarkable drive.
Its midrange allows timbres to bloom naturally. Fast, with low directivity and a
total absence of coloration, exceptionally linear, it portrays in the most
accurate yet relaxed way the artistic intentions of the performers. The
recording venue is recreated faithfully.
The tweeter adds to an already impressive ensemble. Perfectly in phase with the
midrange driver, it allows the treble to shine and to melt smoothly with the
rest of the music, recreating a coherent wave front. The strain associated with
some tweeters is completely absent from such a design.
The Concorde was, in term of design ,both a challenge and a treat. It portrays
music in a way that will amaze concert lovers.
Though they require a reasonably wide room to give the best of themselves,
setting up these speakers up is quite easy, thanks to the painstaking attention
that went into cabinet damping and decoupling from the floor.
Also, in order to allow them to really shine, and to benefit from their
startling dynamics in the low frequencies it is recommended to match them with
amplifiers endowed with a high current capability.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
GENERAL DESIGN
Tuned triangular
transmission line for the woofer. The midrange driver is encased in a dedicated
enclosure, tuned with a second enclosure through an Helmholtz resonator in order
to eliminate the main cabinet resonance. Tweeter is de-coupled from the main
enclosure. The solid beech base is also decoupled from the enclosure thanks to a
highly damped material inserted between the enclosure and the base. Adjustable
spikes are provided, as well.
DRIVERS
WOOFER
8'' diameter, Zamac
basket, double magnet, double suspension. Flat spider, double edgewound flat
copper coil. PVC free pure aerogel compound cone
MIDRANGE
5'' diameter, Zamac basket, double neodymium magnet, flat spider, anti-vortex
phase plug, moving coil in flat , pure oxygen free copper (LCOFC) edge-wounded
onto a glass fibre reinforced kapton voice coil former.., PVC-free pure aerogel
compound cone.
TWEETER
Suspensionless polyamide cone, anti vortex phase plug, peripheral compression
chamber. Ferrofluid air-gap, double magnet system.
CROSSOVER
12 dB/ 6 dB/ 18 dB octave. Cut-off frequencies: 250 - 4500 Hz. Large section
copper air-coils, tin-framework polypropylene capacitors for the tweeter's
crossover. Point-to point-wiring, no circuit board. All sections, bass,
midrange, treble, are isolated from one another to prevent magnetic and
mechanical interference.
ENCLOSURE
Real beech-veneered medite material on both sides. Assembled under press to
guarantee a completely inert structure. Optimised internal damping. Rounded
edges to limit diffraction effects. Solid beech base uncoupled from the main
enclosure with a high-damping viscoelastic material.
| Bandwidth |
30- 22000 Hz |
| Nominal impedance |
4 ohm |
| Sensitivity |
89 dB/W/M |
| Power handling capacity |
120 watts |
| Peak power |
250 watts |
| Recommended power |
40 to 250 watts |
| Weight |
45 Kg ( 100 Ibs) |
| Dimensions |
H = 130cm P= 30cm L= 28
cm ( 51" x 12 '' x 11 '') |
| Finish |
Real beech veneer,
stained cherry beech or black lacquer |
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