Emotiva ER 5.0 Speaker System Review
Emotiva ER Speakers
Summary
- Product Name: ER 5.0 Speaker System
- Manufacturer: Emotiva Audio
- Performance Rating:
- Value Rating:
- Review Date: March 31, 2008
- MSRP: $1,246
- Specifications
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Drivers
- 2 - 5.25” woofers (1 on ERD-1s)
- Proprietary tri-fiber composite cone is light weight and rigid with low resonance
- NBR surround for enhanced cone edge termination
- Proprietary high performance motor structure
- Integrated copper and aluminum shorting rings to reduce distortion and 2nd and 3rd order harmonics
- Flat progressive rate spider with venting under spider
- Cast aluminum frame
- 25mm tweeter
- Wide surround silk dome diaphragm
- High
power motor structure
integrated heat-sink mounted on motor structure - Ferro-fluid cooled voice coil
- Internally damped, low resonance rear chamber
Precision Crossover
- Asymmetrical 4th order Linkwitz Riley crossover
- Switchable tweeter level adjustment (+2, 0, -2db) (ERM only)
- Switchable boundary effect Compensation (ERM only)
- Precision metal film capacitors
- Low DCR air core inductors
Additional Features
- Dual speaker terminals for bi-amped operation (ERM only)
- Selectable bi-pole/ di-pole operation (ERD only)
- Critically braced and highly damped MDF cabinet
- Milled terminal recess with integrated milled aluminum 6mm jack plate
- 6mm milled aluminum low diffraction front baffle plate
- Magnetically mounted, acoustically transparent grill
- Non-reflective black satin lacquer finish
- Frequency response: 80-20Khz +/-2db
- Offset array with optimized horizontal and vertical polar response. Speaker can be mounted vertically for left / right main channels or horizontally as a center channel (ERM only)
- Sensitivity ERM: 89db (2.83volts @ 1 Meter)
- Sensitivity ERD: 87db (2.83volts @ 1 Meter)
- Recommended amplifier power: 50-250 Watts RMS
Dimensions
- 9.5" deep, 7.75" wide, 13.5" tall (ERM-1)
- 4.25" deep, 13" wide, 9.5" tall (ERD-1)
Pros
- Clarity of sound
- Dipole speaker performance exceptional
- Extremely flexible placement
- Tremendous off-axis performance
Cons
- Lackluster appearance
- Center channel performance diminished in-cabinet
- Magnetic grills fall off easily
Introduction
Emotiva, the maker of affordable amps and processors, has stepped into the speaker world in a big way. With the help of the famous loudspeaker designer Vance Dickason, they have put together a 5.0 package at a price that seems almost too good to be true. These speakers sound great, the dipole surrounds are amazing, and the boundary and tweeter adjustments mean that they'll fit almost any room. The downside? Just look at them…
- Emotiva ER Build Quality
- Emotiva ER Measurements
- Emotiva ER Setup and Listening
- ER Multichannel Listening and Conclusion
