PS Audio Aspen FR30 (sæt) Grey (DEMO)

1 demosæt af PS Audios FR30, perfekt stand, kun benyttet til demonstrationer - PS Audios mål for FR30 var at designe og bygge en state-of-the-art fuld-range højttaler med ekstraordinært lav forvrængning, ubesværet gengivelse, fantastisk tonalitet og udsøgt skønhed. Deres højeste forventninger er blevet overgået.

Aspen FR30 repræsenterer kulminationen på 50 års brancheerfaring; læren af detaljer, hvad der virker og hvad der ikke gør; hvad der skal til for at en højttaler forsvinder og kun efterlader musikkens magi - design af et kompromisløst fasekorrekt delefilter - at konstruere et kabinet, der ikke farver lyden - laver en næsten flad impedanskurve til at drive højttalerne med en hvilken som helst effektforstærker, og når ikke engang den mest avancerede driverproducents produkter er gode nok til at opfylde vores krævende standarder, designe basenheder, diskanthøjttalere og mellemtoner fra bunden.

I alle henseender vil FR30 overgå dine forventninger til, hvad det vil sige at blive kaldt en referencehøjttaler.

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Betagende at lytte til, smuk at se på. Aspen FR30.

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2022 Golden Ear Awards

The Absolute Sound har for nylig testet PS Audio Aspen FR30 og tildeler den nu deres absolut fornemste pris.

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The FR30 is truly outstanding, highly recommended, and well worth the set-up effort necessary to make it perform at its best!

Anthony Cordesman, The Absolute Sound

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** FEATURES **
FULL RANGE 3-WAY SYSTEM
88dB SENSITIVITY
TWO 2.5" PLANAR RIBBON TWEETERS
10" PLANAR RIBBON MIDRANGE
FOUR 8" LOW DISTORTION HIGH EXCURSION WOOFERS
FOUR 10" LOW DISTORTION HIGH EXCURSION BASS RADIATORS
REAR TWEETER LEVEL CONTROL
BAFFLE STEP ADJUSTMENT FOR BEST SPEAKER PLACEMENT
FLAT IMPEDANCE CURVE FOR EASY AMPLIFIER LOAD
SMOOTH AND FULL OFF AXIS RESPONSE
IN-ROOM BASS RESPONSE TO 20hz @ -6db
TWO PIECE CABINET FOR EASY SETUP
ADJUSTABLE FEET
EASY TO POSITION FOR BEST PERFORMANCE
HEAVY INTERNAL BRACING FOR LOW CABINET VIBRATION
CUSTOM FILM CAPACITORS & PREMIUM AIR-CORE INDUCTORS

Design
Designing and building a new loudspeaker is both the easiest and hardest engineering challenge in all of high-fidelity. On the one hand, anyone can go online and buy a few drivers and bang together a box to make decent sound. On the other hand, the most difficult task in all of high-performance audio is crafting a seamless phase-correct output from two or more driver technologies. Over nearly a century of loudspeaker designs, few models have ever achieved legendary status. The FR30 joins the ranks of a rare handful of true full-range speakers that can honestly cover the frequency range of 28Hz to beyond 20kHz with grace, dynamics, slam, and low distortion. What's captured on the disc is exactly what you'll hear with a greater resolution than most have ever experienced. Grace, beauty, PRaT, power, and a musicality that is rare amongst 6 figure offerings from other manufacturers await owners of the aspen FR30. That this speaker is financially within reach of many makes it a miracle.

Application
Loudspeakers are part of the family. With their presence, they grace our homes and living areas by bringing the joy of music into our lives. Unlike the electronics that drive them, to perform their best most loudspeakers depend on proper placement and optimized room parameters. The aspen FR30, however, is designed to more easily fit into any living environment and perform at their best with a minimum of setup hassles and a maximum of options. Using the rear-panel adjustments, FR30 owners can place their speakers where they best fit into the decor with nothing more than the flick of the baffle-step switch, or the turn of the rear tweeter control. While the FR30, like all high-performance speakers, appreciates some breathing room between them and the front wall, these unique rear-panel controls offer users greater flexibility of placement without sonic compromise. Using the included step-by-step guide and CD, setup, from unboxing to playing music, happens easily in a few short hours.

The drivers
The heart and soul of any loudspeaker are its drivers, the transducers that in response to the amplifier's demands pressurize the air and generate the music. Each driver must be optimized for the task at hand. In the FR30, it quickly became apparent we could not source from even the most advanced driver manufacturers in the world the ultra low-distortion high-dynamic output drivers we would need to build the FR30. We started with our tweeter and midrange for here are the two most difficult drivers to perfect. Moving air at high frequencies without colorations or distortion is a daunting task. On the FR30 we chose to go with a technology that has the speed of an electrostat with the dynamics of a cone. Planar Magnetics. These ultra-low distortion drivers are equally driven with front and rear magnetic structures that offer inherent linearity through symmetrical “push-pull” neodymium motor structures and directly driven ultra-low mass diaphragms with none of the cone or dome breakup, inductance modulation, or hysteresis distortion that plagues traditional drivers. For the low end, we crafted long-throw high-excursion woofers with massive 12-pound motor structures that match the effortlessness and transparency of the planar magnetic drivers. To lower distortion, we employed a unique split magnetic gap and a double faraday ring for low, linear inductance and wide bandwidth, coupled with a symmetrical double spider. Lastly, to achieve maximum linearity and extended deep bass extension without the compression and distortion of ports, we designed our own high compliance passive radiators.

Technology
By far the most important piece in the HiFi chain is the loudspeaker. If the speaker cannot reproduce what's it is fed from the electronic chain, the missing musical information is forever lost. To achieve all that music demands, over the years loudspeaker designers have tried to leverage every trick in the book: electrostats for details, conventional drivers for dynamics, planars for transparency, ribbons, domes, horns, open baffles, bipoles, dipoles. The list is endless and the choices and their inevitable sonic compromises daunting. With close to 50 years under our collective belts, we at PS Audio determined to design the perfect loudspeaker. Our strategy would be to combine the best of all possible driver and crossover technologies in a single coherent design. We would call it the FR30. It would have unquestioned dynamics. It would be full range and capable of being driven by just about any amplifier. Its high-frequency drivers would have lower mass than the air they were driving and the speed and clarity of the best electrostats. Its midrange driver would be so transparent and uncolored as to be unnoticeable. And our FR30 would never be shy when it came to the low end. With 8 woofers supported by 8 high compliance passive radiators, in-room bass response would be nothing short of legendary.