AV123 x-statik Tower Loudspeaker
AV123 x-statik
The new x-series loudspeakers from AV123 are positioned to be the very best value this leading loudspeaker manufacturer/direct seller has to offer. Owning their own factories has enabled AV123 to provide gorgeous HAND FINISHED custom cabinets, high quality crossover components and custom drive units in speakers at an incredibly low factory direct cost to consumers.
The new x-statik open baffle tower starting at $699/pr was designed from the ground up by AV123's Mark Schifter and renowned speaker designer Danny Richie. The x-statik will launch with a companion open baffle center speaker called x-voce as well as On-Wall surrounds and an omni-directional floor standing speaker.
The x-statik features a 2" front baffle and a 1” braced, high quality MDF cabinet designed to minimize enclosure resonances. They are then wrapped in a real wood veneer or beautifully finished in a silky-smooth satin black. The hand finished x-series speakers are right at home with fine furniture, and look far more expensive than their price suggests.
x-statik…
Housed
in this beautiful enclosure are a pair custom built Peerless India 6.5"
curvilinear shaped treated paper cones along with an all new Peerless India
fabric dome tweeter – all in an open baffle alignment. Below this combination
is another pair of Peerless India 6.5” woofers in a sealed enclosure. These
custom made drive units use a polymer chassis to prevent transmission of
resonances to the front baffle. The voice coil of the driver is vented on the
outside through the frame and pole piece for improved reliability and power
handling. The crossover features high quality components including Sonicap bypass capacitors. The result? An
open, airy, transparent, engaging and dare we say – magical experience.
The x-statik towers from AV123 are destined to be the new calling card for AV123 – performance, value and furniture quality build for an unbelievable price. First shipments are going out now.
Specifications
- Price: $699 per pair for Satin Black. $799 per pair in real wood finishes.
- System: Three way, five driver open baffle/sealed hybrid
- Drivers: 1" treated fabric dome and 4x custom 6.5" curvilinear shaped treated paper cone woofers with polymer chassis
- Crossover: 200Hz and 1800Hz
- Frequency Response: 65 Hz to 20 KHz (± 3 dB)
- Impedance: 8 Ohms nominal
- Efficiency: 90.5dB (@ 1 watt / 1 meter)
- Dimensions: 46.7" H x 8.5" W x 16.5" D
- Weight: 57 lbs each; ship weight = 158 lbs (shipped in pairs)
- 3 Year Warranty
- Thirty-day in home trial
For more information, please visit www.av123.com.
There has to be a substantial first order roll off from the open baffle speakers. The second order woofer crossover it seems to me would make a poor splice with the open baffle drivers.
Not really... The mids already have a natural first order roll off. Adding the first order high pass filter to it creates a higher order acoustic roll off. This perfectly matches the roll off of the woofers that use a second order (electrical) low pass filter.
Therefore you would have to rely on speaker placement and room gain to help out.
Room gain is not needed to yield a flat response.
I suppose, though, you did not want the impedance to drop down to 2 ohms or below, if you made the sealed woofers fill in the loss all the way.
There is a crossover between those sets of drivers. It is not a 2.5 way design. The drivers sum perfectly without any low impedance load just like any other three way design.
So the sealed bass speakers are down 12 db by 400 Hz.
Acoustically they are down more than 18db by 400Hz.
...so that the lower drivers are rolling off very gradually to fill in for the two small drivers, in the very narrow baffle were diffraction and cancellation losses have to be severe.
The diffraction is minimized by the narrow baffle and cancellation of the dipole effect is only at 90 degrees off axis. Off axis measurements show loss of output to be extremely balanced and much better than most other speakers (if you don't mind me saying )
Sean
Yes, we are 200 miles from the Twin Cities. I'm not really interested in those speakers. I'm just curious with that design, I always am when a speaker is out of the mold. There has to be a substantial first order roll off from the open baffle speakers. The second order woofer crossover it seems to me would make a poor splice with the open baffle drivers. Therefore you would have to rely on speaker placement and room gain to help out. I suppose, though, you did not want the impedance to drop down to 2 ohms or below, if you made the sealed woofers fill in the loss all the way. Then you would have had budget speakers needing a high priced amp. It seems to me there has to be a compromise here.
Here are my speakers.
http://mdcarter.smugmug.com/gallery/2424008_RKGvb#127077317 [mdcarter.smugmug.com]
Sean
In the lakes country of North Central Minnesota I doubt there will be one near by!
In the lakes country of North Central Minnesota I doubt there will be one near by!
Maybe once we are shipping these in big quantities you can catch someone in MN and listen to theirs. Post an audition request on the AV123 forum in a few weeks and you should find someone close
Sean