14 DAY TRIAL // It's indeed most nice to see that loudspeaker manufacturers around the world come, from time to time, with some new models that look absolutely intriguing and sport strange technologies that expand the limits of the audio industry further and further, much to the delight of editors and clients alike.[admark=1]
It's the case of the British manufacturer Rountree Acoustics, announcing an absolutely staggering new loudspeaker model, the OmniMon 1. We're talking a floorstanding unit embedding hyper-advanced technologies with little similarities throughout the audiophile world and with specs to be envied by many other producers. First of all, besides the very strange looks of the OmniMon 1, there are also the weight and overall construction.
The tall and slender cabinet weighs under 4lbs (around 1810- grams) and has been manufactured from entirely wood-free materials: a low-mass composite with a hard foam core and treated paper skins, ensuring excellent resistance and rigidity. The enclosure is reinforced internally by no less than 16 braces carefully engineered to form a structure with maximal vibration and resonance-absorption properties, rendering the whole assembly almost completely inert.
The dual drivers are placed in the upper part of the cabinet and they also look peculiar. The woofer has been loaded in an inverted position and uses a complex transmission line, the Rountree Acoustics experts claiming that this positioning ensures a better 360-degree dispersion and a better LF reproduction. This 180mm bass driver is connected to the massive metal plinth of the OmniMon 1 by means of a steel rod sustaining the cabinet and creating the impression of it floating above the baseplate.
The HF driver is a 9 mm x 63 mm ribbon unit, decoupled from the rest of the speaker using a counterbalancing collar and thus offering a pristine sonic representation. The Rountree Acoustics OmniMon 1 can be bi-wired and has been carefully tuned to reproduce sound from a rumbling 30Hz to an audiophile-grade 40Hz upper limit and can drive as much as 120W in 8 Ohms with 86dB sensitivity. The announced price is around $9,900.
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