C 80 SUR Rear/Surround Bookshelf Speaker (Black Ash)
High performance 160 watt, 2-way dipole rear surround sound speaker. (Sold Individually)
The C 80 SUR rear surround sound speaker will perfectly complement any front concert series speakers which all feature tweeters with DTT and WaveGuide, and woofers and midrange units
using Hard Conical Cone and Centre-Plug technology. Furthermore they all come
with an Active Impedance Correction system, which neutralises the magnetic field
around the pole piece, reducing distortion by up to 50%. All front speakers in
the C 80 series feature bi-wiring allowing you to fine tune the sound in perfect
harmony with your room.
The C 80 SUR dipolar surround speaker is deliberately designed to deliver a diffuse
sound, giving you the feeling of being enveloped in sound. Dipolar loudspeakers
usually suffer, however, from a lack of efficiency in the deep bass area. To compensate
for this fact the C 80 SUR is equipped with a special feature called XBR
(eXtended Bass Response). XBR inverts the phase on one of the two woofers so that
at frequencies below 250Hz it functions according to the bipolar principle.
Using a combination of di- and bi-polar principles not only ensures ultimate diffuse
reproduction of surround effects but also provides a remarkably deep and steady
bass. In other words, XBR combines the best of these two principles.
Because XBR carries out the electrical phase shift on one of the woofers, the
C 80 SUR are individually configured as a left and a right loudspeaker. In this way
the perfect interaction with the front speakers is achieved i.e. there’s a perfect transition
between front and surround speakers when sound effects pan back and
forth across the room.
As all of the speakers in the series are developed using the same uncompromising philosophy, it’s possible to combine them in a number of different ways. Sound-wise the C 80 family is characterised by its genuinely authentic acoustics. The series always conveys highly detailed and beautifully resonant sound across the entire frequency spectrum. |