Estelon Forza loudspeaker

Description

The Forza is the rearmost speaker in the company's"flagship" line, priced below the Extreme. Prices for the Forza, depending upon finish, start at$/ brace and go up to$/ brace for"Ocean Riddle" blue. As delivered, in Dark Silver Liquid Gloss, the cost is$/ brace.

According to the Forza primer, electroacoustics mastermind Alfred Vassilkov innovated Estelon in 2010, having spent the former 25 times or so designing loudspeakers, during which time he's said to have entered multitudinous unidentified patents and awards. He began exploration for the Estelon brand four times before its founding, assaying accoutrements and technologies to be used to produce streamlined cabinetry that would produce superior sonic performance and assimilate well into home innards, esthetically and sonically.

The homemade describes Estelon's parent company, Alfred & Partners, which is grounded in Estonia's graphic capital megacity Tallinn, as a" design plant, suppose-tank"; colorful commercial biographies place it in the"Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing Industry."The company wasco-founded byMr.

To form the cast enclosures, Vassilkov developed a personal persecuted-marble compound that he claims has"excellent stiffness andanti-resonant attributes"while allowing the creation of moldered closets. Other press features include" expansive use ofsub-structural stiffening spars that break up resonance bumps," motorists mounted in separate internal enclosures," state of the art"resonance control, and an unidentified" top quality" damping material. The two 11"woofers mount into a single, sealed chamber in which utmost of the walls are twisted and none are resemblant. The midwoofer is housed in its own also constructed chamber, as is the tweeter. All are separated to reduce the transmission of climate from motorist to motorist via the press and the airspace. The phased shape eliminates corner- cocoon reflections, and Vassilkov avers that the narrow top, from which the high frequentness radiate, produces"0 degrees phase ( shift) at the listening position, while the press's larger compasses produce controlled directivity of the propagating soundwaves."In other words, the lack of sharp edges and the press's soft angles exclude press diffraction. Estelon claims this results in wide directivity and livery frequence response indeed as you move out- axis, as well as basically true time- sphere geste, all of which expands the ideal listening position beyond a central" sweet spot." The press widens at the bottom, both so it will not cock over ( good thing!) and to allow effective low- frequence reduplication. Every Estelon speaker throughout the line is hand- erected. The press face is hand- filed also sealed in a multilayer process followed by multiple fleeces of lacquer and a final polishing. Estelon offers the Forza in colorful colors, in liquid buff, matte, and voluntary decoration homestretches. Each speaker is tuned, tested, and auditioned before being packed out to the dealer or client.

Forza particulars

66" altitudinous, 24"wide, 27"deep, and importing 330 lb, the Forza is a large speaker that looks lower than it's incompletely because of how little side real estate it consumes as it tapers to the top. It's a four- way, sealed box design that uses" top-shelf"Accuton motorists manufactured to Estelon's specifications, including a brace of 11", long- excursion, stiff membrane CELL ( citation 2) aluminum sandwich woofers with voice-coils nearly the same periphery as the membrane, mounted near to the cocoon bottom and angled roughly 45 ° to one another. The 8"aluminum sandwich midwoofer ( also from Accuton's" CELL" line) employs neodymium attractions, as does the 7" CELL ceramic-membrane midrange motorist. The tweeter is Accuton's 1", chemical-vapor – deposited inverted-diamond membrane tweeter. These three motorists are placed in a tight, perpendicular array with the smallest frequence motorist near the cocoon top and the tweeter in the smallest position, at observance height. The three upper motorists are deposited on the slightly hollow cocoon face to produce distances from the listening position that are nearly identical. (One specific of the CELL series of motorists is that they all have the same auricular center.) Audiophiles critical of companies that do not manufacture their own motorists might as well disparage machine companies that do not produce their own tires, which is all of them. It's a silly distinction. You can argue for or against a company producing its own motorists or having a specialist like Accuton (parent company Thiel & Partner) or Overlook- Speak, for case, manufacture them to its specifications, but overall, I suppose it's a fatuous distinction ( citation 3). Estelon doesn't give the four- way design's crossover frequentness, nor does it discover the factors used; what they do say is that the woofer networks are third- order while alternate- Crossover factors, the instructions say," have been chosen from among the absolute stylish available" also premeasured and sorted to tight forbearance, after which they're connected together point-to- point and hand-soldered. Kubala-Sosna provides the internal line. The crossover networks live in their own isolated chambers to reduce microphonic goods. Perceptivity is specified as 88dB/2.83 V/ m, the nominal impedance 3 ohms with 2-ohm minima at 42 and 110Hz A important, high-current solid state amplifier will drive the Forzas stylish. The rated frequence range is 25Hz – 60kHz, which makes it a full- range speaker with a top end that"ought to please any end club"as the Flanders and Swann"Song of Reproduction"says.

Unpacking and setup

The Forzas boat in large, rolling flight cases. Unboxing is a two-person job, but it is not delicate. The speakers are also on bus, and they fluently roll out of the cases once they're flipped upright. I moved the Forzas around using the instruction suggestions and heeded to pink noise, other test tones, and familiar music. I settled on locales near to where every speaker sounds stylish in this room. I had a friend cock and support the speakers as I removed the casters and fitted the four insulation bases, two per side, into which harpoons were placed. For use on hard shells, Estelon provides essence bases that go into the insulation bases.

Specification

Type. 4-way passive loudspeaker, sealed box. Drivers. Woofer: 2 x 250 mm (11 inches) CELL Aluminium Sandwich Accuton (custom design) ... Frequency response. 25 - 60 000 Hz. Power rating. 400 W. Nominal impedance. 3 Ohm (min 2,0 Ohm at 42 and 110 Hz) Sensitivity. 90 dB/2.83 V. Minimal Amplifier Power. 20 W. Material.