Accepting Pre-Orders - Finalized design will no longer be green, and will include a grille (of course). Please feel free to give us a call if you have any questions or need advice on what might work best for your personal situation
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What main factors keep ESL from dominating the audio marketplace?
- Low Efficiency - You're fighting physics - With low available motor force, voltages quickly
exceed usable values, and pushing them further results in damaging stator arcing (above ~5kV rms)
- Additional efficiency is thrown away due to passive crossover components and architecture constraints.
- Polar Response - Traditional ESL have dispersion profile that boarders unusable.
- Unreasonable Size - Trying to produce full range output with ~3mm of available stroke is not a great value propositon. Make it as big as you want, it will still likely fall flat when driven even moderately.
The Solution? Enter: Evo Series Esl - You can't beat physics, but you CAN negotiate! - "Tandem-Drive": Optimized dual diaphragm architecture allowing for 6db efficiency gain over typical designs
- Directivity control: WIDE, EVEN dispersion profile enabled by segmenting the panel width - No more "Head in a Vice"
- Hybrid Design with crossover below Schroeder frequency - Carefully integrated long stroke Subwoofer
for <100hz - Time aligned and corrected for your personal space and circumstance.
- Fully Active: Retains maximum efficiency and allows full control over system integration - In Place OPTIMIZATION IS KEY
ALL NEW - After several years of testing and prototyping with the Purifi-Audio 8" Ultra Low Distortion Woofers, we were finally able to integrate our new EVO series ESL panels into a bookshelf form-factor.
This design is intended for use as an ALL IN ONE solution, SELF POWERED - requiring zero additional equipment and robust feature set included onboard. Many situations will not require an external subwoofer, as driver selection and enclosure design give impressive bass extension down to below 25hz at mind bending levels. In cases where additional bass is desired, external subwoofers are easily integrated.
Here's the short of it: Per Speaker
- Evo Series modular Tandem-Drive ESL panel
- 8" Long-stroke Midrange - Purifi Audio
- 18" Deep - 9.25" Wide - 35" Tall
- Low Q Porting for very accurate and satisfying bass extension (33hz tuning)
- 250hz Crossover Frequency - Maintaining single source accuracy above Schroeder frequency
- Built in 2 channel Hypex Fusion Amplifier - Rated at .0017%thd
- Built in Input options - Digital SPDIF/Optical/Digital AES/Balanced XLR/RCA connections
- 250 Watts for EVO series ESL Panel
- 250 Watts for Purifi 8" - 30mm xmax -
It's hard to really consolidate the improvements this system employs when compared to others in the price range, but as a start, the Purifi 8" Bass/Midrange driver is between 30-80 TIMES lower distortion than typical 8" driver (frequency dependent). The trick here is that Purifi-Audio took speaker driver design back to the drawing board, and re-designed their entire magnet structure, coil assembly, cone, and surround as a cohesive system. This ensures that every step of the way was optimized for the lowest possible levels of THD as well as (the now seemingly more important metric) Intermodulation Distortion.
Each driver selection, as well as the incredibly low distortion amplifier and inert enclosure implementation, coalesce into a truly unique listening experience that people typically spend many years trying to achieve. This system is on a completely different level from previous offerings for Hifi and Monitoring purposes - Think Headphones, but with even higher levels of detail, lower distortion, and absolutely mind bending 3 dimensional imaging. You'll find yourself getting lost in music you never before cared for, while simultaneously removing other tracks from your playlists. I often find myself thinking "there's no way the mixing engineer could hear these missed details" (distortion/clipping/artifacts/compression/oversaturation). It's all Clear as day - sometimes to a fault, but that music gets relegated to a different kind of listening - We all need something to enjoy in the car.
Pricing includes standard black epoxy paint finish -
Piano Black - Add $2200
Custom Veneer (High Gloss) Add $1800
This Prototype pair was finished in house in a low sheen Textured epoxy.
This design is currently on demo and ready for Pre-Order, but they will be available in the coming months in beautiful custom Veneer choices as well as a Piano Black finish. Please contact us if you are interested in a demo - More to come :)
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This design is reminiscent of a Unicorn in the Hi-Fi world, but as you may have noted, they're as big as a whale - The Narwhal finally got it's Unihorn.