OWNERS MANUAL
“CLASSIC-Series”
Welcome to the Music!
Acoustic Technologies, LLC introduces its signature product, the “
Classic-Series
” loudspeaker which combines a
new design paradigm with a new bass technology. The “
Classic-Series
” is the culmination of extensive research
into the natural reproduction of musical recordings.
Musical reproduction is about physics and perception. That is, a loudspeaker must
adequately and accurately transduce the physical attributes of recorded sounds so
that our ears and brain can process/perceive that sound as music. The physical aspect
of sound basically can be characterized by three parameters: amplitude, frequency
and time. Over the past few decades, mainstream loudspeaker designers have chosen
to optimize their designs with the goals of increasing the speaker's frequency range
and diminishing harmonic distortion. To this end, the majority of designs have
followed a multiple driver layout, which necessitates the use of filters (crossovers) to
linearly exchange the frequency response between drivers. In addition, loudspeaker
designs with multiple drivers must also meld together the divergent dispersion
patterns of each driver to achieve a coherent positioning of the reproduced sound.
These multiple driver designs are characterized (and limited) by their so-called “sweet
spot,” a relatively small area in front and between a pair of loudspeakers at which the
listener will experience the optimal sound of the speaker system.
Unlike conventional loudspeaker systems, our “
Classic-Series
” is optimized in both the frequency and time
domains. Using only a single wide band driver and our proprietary technology, we are now able to coherently
present lower frequency information in a relatively small package. This new technology utilizes our
proprietary cabinet design to acoustically amplify the lower frequencies produced by the single small-diameter
driver much in the manner that musical instruments do.
