ポリプロのウーハーで声の帯域の自然さと弦楽器の滑らかさが特徴で、ハイスピードの高域と、エンクロージャーから想像できない低域の下がり感と、全体を支配する音色(ブリテシュトーン)が、魅力の全てです。 (2023年 3月5日 20時 18分 追加)Elite is one of two floor standing speakers from Classic Series. Its woofer/midrange driver with impregnated paper diffuser is the same as in Ultimatum models. Tweeter is especially interesting - we are faced with such a driver for the first time. Tweeter introduces EMIT (Electro Magnetic Induction Tweeter) technology, akin to the planar technology that Infinity developed for Quantum speakers in the early 1980s. A round flat membrane with a spiral conductive path - a coil and a dome at the same time - oscillates in the field of a powerful magnet. The soft fabric around the tweeter blocks sound reflections. In the case made of 15-mm MDF boards there are two differently configured bass-reflex ports. Spikes are screwed into the case from below. Elite does not have a protective mesh, but nothing hides the amazingly beautiful texture of natural wood. You can fall in love with the sound of these speakers from the very first sound. It is fascinatingly beautiful, fantastically musical. Transparency is crystal, saturation is rich with the most delicate, jewelry-prescribed details of medium and high register. As you move down to the lower case, Elite's musical style transforms seamlessly, but there's no eclectic feeling. The bass is elastic, focused, mobile, not very deep. The dynamic data is not very bright: the needle-precise articulation of the details of the micro-amplitude layer contrasts with the slightly reduced energy of loud episodes. Elite perfectly play any music. Perhaps, only on symphonic and rock phonograms we would like a denser, more "aggressive" bass and a dynamic resource.
詳細は追って記載します。(2023年 3月5日 20時 12分 追加)当時のカタログが見当たらないため、
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http://www.audioreview.com/product/speakers/floorstanding-speakers/neat-acoustics/mystique.html
英国生まれの2ウェイ2スピーカーです。
ハインツ&カンパニー正規輸入品。
リヤにバスレフポートあります。
おおよそのサイズはW220×H840×D177mm、14kg。
取説なし。純正スパイクは紛失。
年式の割には外観良好です。(2023年 3月5日 20時 16分 追加)最大の特徴はツイーターにピエゾ(能率90dB 周波数帯域3.500Hz~40.000Hz)と言う電圧駆動のネットワークレスで使えるツィーターのペアリングされた選別品を使い、(インフィニティも使っていたツィーターです。)
見せ掛けの低域に拘らず、音色重視でポリプロピレンのウーハーを用意して、トールボーイに仕上げる際に、スピーカー本体の真下にバスレフのポートを用意して、それに負けないアルミインゴットの金属製の台座と台座下のスパイクで低域を受け止めています。
ポリプロのウーハーで声の帯域の自然さと弦楽器の滑らかさが特徴で、ハイスピードの高域と、エンクロージャーから想像できない低域の下がり感と、全体を支配する音色(ブリテシュトーン)が、魅力の全てです。 (2023年 3月5日 20時 18分 追加)Elite is one of two floor standing speakers from Classic Series. Its woofer/midrange driver with impregnated paper diffuser is the same as in Ultimatum models. Tweeter is especially interesting - we are faced with such a driver for the first time. Tweeter introduces EMIT (Electro Magnetic Induction Tweeter) technology, akin to the planar technology that Infinity developed for Quantum speakers in the early 1980s. A round flat membrane with a spiral conductive path - a coil and a dome at the same time - oscillates in the field of a powerful magnet. The soft fabric around the tweeter blocks sound reflections. In the case made of 15-mm MDF boards there are two differently configured bass-reflex ports. Spikes are screwed into the case from below. Elite does not have a protective mesh, but nothing hides the amazingly beautiful texture of natural wood.
You can fall in love with the sound of these speakers from the very first sound. It is fascinatingly beautiful, fantastically musical. Transparency is crystal, saturation is rich with the most delicate, jewelry-prescribed details of medium and high register. As you move down to the lower case, Elite's musical style transforms seamlessly, but there's no eclectic feeling. The bass is elastic, focused, mobile, not very deep. The dynamic data is not very bright: the needle-precise articulation of the details of the micro-amplitude layer contrasts with the slightly reduced energy of loud episodes. Elite perfectly play any music. Perhaps, only on symphonic and rock phonograms we would like a denser, more "aggressive" bass and a dynamic resource.