Isis, Saga, Tesseract
Requiring only one wiring connection from a stereo or mono amplifier, the ISIS arrives fully assembled & tuned for optimum performance. Easily set up, this high efficiency transducer can be driven to thunderous crescendos with high quality solid state or tube output amplifiers.
A revolution in technology is only part of the magic. The proof is in the artistry of combining all of these elements into an elegant yet complex system that puts you in charge of your musical destination. ISIS will transport you to the recording studio or live performance of your choice, to a personal connection with the essence of music – where Time and Space become One.
Brand: Avalon
Model Name/Number: Isis
Price (RRP): £96250
Product Information:
ISIS £102400
is simply one of the most technologically advanced high-energy transducer ever created. Our focused research over a period of four years has produced a range of advancements in each aspect of loudspeaker performance. Proprietary conductors and magnetic technologies, as well as new techniques in cabinet construction, have been combined with the first implementation of full range neodymium driver motors, for the expressed purpose of empirical improvements in all aspects of energy transfer. In each facet of transducer refinement the Isis sets a new benchmark for lack of obscuring distortions of all types. The noise floor is lower, the transient response faster, the storage of stray energy less than ever before. Most importantly, the octave to octave energy balance is equivalent throughout the extended bandwidth envelope, developed without compression of any kind and yet critically damped, thus delivering a dynamic and spatial presentation that is absolutely faithful to the recording.
The result is a large dynamic system that behaves like a small monitor, revealing the most subtle details of space and time combined with the ability to create explosive sound pressure contrasts. By creating and combining our own proprietary technologies, we have produced a rare and exclusive transducer that will set the empirical and musical standard of reference for many years to come.
Driver Complement:
1″ Concave Diamond Diaphragm tweeter
7″ Concave Ceramic Midrange
2-13″ Nomex Kevlar Composite Woofers
All drivers utilize proprietary neodymium magnetic technologies.
Sensitivity:
90 dB
Impedance:
4 ohms nominal
Frequency Response:
20Hz to 50kHz
Recommended Amplifier Power:
75 to 750 watts
Wiring Methods:
Two position binding post
Dimensions:
60″ high
14.5″ wide
17″ deep
Weight:
210 pounds each (95 kg each)
SAGA £148000
Represents the synthesis of our multi-year research into low noise circuitry, developed during the TESSERACT design project, and the high resolution pin-point focus of Isis. Our in depth research over a period of four years has produced a range of advancements in each aspect of loudspeaker performance. Proprietary conductors and magnetic technologies, as well as new techniques in cabinet construction, have been combined with the implementation of an all neodymium full range driver array. A new family of all-pass phase networks confers empirical improvements in all aspects of energy transfer and transient speed. The noise floor is lower, the transient response faster, and the storage of stray energy is less than ever before. Most importantly, the octave to octave energy balance is equivalent throughout the extended bandwidth envelope, developed without compression and yet critically damped, thus delivering a dynamic and spatial presentation that is absolutely faithful to the recording. The result is a large dynamic system that behaves like a small monitor, revealing the most subtle details of space against black backgrounds within an envelope of explosive sound pressure contrasts. Modest impedance characteristics make macro dynamic distinctions possible with even low output, voltage source amplifiers.
The adherence to true high-end idealism, perfect phase behavior and accurate soundstaging, will stand the test of time when high priced mid-fi fads have faded into obscurity. Our goal is to always be true to our passion for music, while creating the most technologically advanced reference transducers in the world.
Driver Complement:
1″ Concave Carbon/Glass Neodymium Tweeter
7″ Concave radial magnetic Ceramic Midrange
(2) 13″ Nomex Kevlar Generation II Composite Woofers
All drivers utilize proprietary neodymium magnetic technologies.
Sensitivity:
92 dB
Impedance:
4 ohms nominal (3.8 ohms minimum)
Frequency Response:
20Hz to 45kHz
Recommended Amplifier Power:
25 to 500 watts
Wiring Methods:
Dual binding post
Dimensions:
68″ high (178 cm)
14.5″ wide (37 cm)
17″ deep (43 cm)
Weight:
260 pounds each (118 kg each)
TESSERACT £poa
Represents the culmination of over 25 years of research into the subtleties of musical waveforms and the psychoacoustic perception of sounds in space. Our research into physical forms and how they react with ambient musical information has led us to two essential innovative concepts. First, it is possible to make a large full range system fully disappear sonically. Second, it is possible to create 3-dimensional images within a soundstage using conventional stereo recordings.
Our Stealth Technology, the redirecting and diffusion of ambient room energy, makes the disappearing act possible. The use of tensor field mathematics, assigning a value and direction to expanding harmonic waves, along with enormous amounts of number crunching, has given us the ability to make reliable predictions regarding which physical forms will best disappear in space. Making an array which is over 7 feet tall disappear is quite a feat of practical mathematical prediction and actual form fabrication.
Sonic Holography is accomplished through meticulousness in recovery and preservation of low level signal information which is encoded into any well made recording. Whenever a microphone is open it is collecting phase and spatial information which is rarely fully decoded by a playback system. This fragile information may be destroyed at many stages of the recording/playback process. Our goal is to preserve as much of the truth that inhabits each recording without putting our own fingerprints on the final presentation.
Most importantly, we never apply technique without considering the effect it will have on the emotional content of the presentation. For us technique is always in service to the music. There must be an aesthetic or emotional result for each intellectual or technical choice we make, one that speaks to our souls.
- Response: 16 Hz to 70 kHz (+/- 0.5 dB anechoic, +/- 1 dB in room response typical)
- In room low frequency response: (-1.5 dB @ 16Hz, -3 dB @ 13Hz typical, dependent upon room volume)
- Efficiency: 93.5 dB (1 watt @ 1 meter)
- Harmonic distortion: 0.30 % throughout the bandwidth at rated efficiency
- Inter-driver phase deviation: 3 degrees within all cross bands
- Noise floor: 68 dB from signal level (maximum noise level), 76dB Typical
- Group delay distortion: 3 milliseconds 100 Hz to 16 Hz. 1 millisecond 100 Hz to 20 KHz.
- Impedance: 6 ohms nominal (4 ohms minimum @ 80 Hz)
- Recommended amplifier power: 15 to 500 Watts
Powered Isobaric Transmission Line Specs:
- Power: 3.2 Kilowatts per channel
- Automatic signal sensing and gain matching
- Master Gain: +/- 2.5 dB (fixed resistor elements of 0.25 dB increments)
- Toggle switch for selecting low frequency contouring: Maximum extension or Transient Speed
- Tempered-scale aperiodic tuning
- Fully Analog symmetrical circuitry
- No digital signal conversion or manipulation
Driver Complement (Per Channel):
- 4 x 15″ low Q high force factor sub-woofers
- 1 x 11″ ceramic/honeycomb underhung voice-coil midbass
- 1 x 4.5″ ceramic underhung voice-coil midrange
- 1 x .78 ” diamond underhung voice-coil tweeter
Physical Parameters:
- Four independent cabinets, two per channel vertically integrated
- Overall Height: 87″ (221 cm)
- Width: 29″ (74 cm)
- Depth: 32″ (82 cm)
- Weight: 827 lbs. per channel (375 kilos), 1653 lbs. total (750 Kilos)
- Shipping weight: 2002 lbs. (908 kilos)
Age: New
Condition: New
Voltage: N/A
Finish/Colour: To order
Packaging? Yes
Accessories? N/A
Item Location: To Order
Status: New
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