AsciLab C8C/BX8C, GGNTKT M3 my top two best loudspeakers ever!
- Keith Cooper
- 1 day ago
- 2 min read
I have always strived to represent the finest engineering rather than the finest marketing.
My experience over the last twenty years is that the better the measurements the more transparent the loudspeaker.
Once you understand how a loudspeaker's anechoic measurements correlate with their actual sound it becomes very straightforward to choose transparent designs and avoid the coloured.
Assuming you believe as I do that a loudspeaker should be a transducer, ie transforming one form of energy into another and not itself an instrument adding its own colouration to the sound.
Electronics are 'done' you can buy the finest measuring DAC or the most powerful low distortion amplifier relatively inexpensively.
A well designed 'streamer' sounds identical to the most expensive ( no matter what the marketing department would have you believe) measurements by Amir at ASR and Erin ( Erin's Audio Corner ) have exposed the truth that for all the myth and back stories cannot conceal.
With blameless audibly transparent electronics, Peter Walker's, 'straight wire with gain', what is left?
Loudspeakers and their interaction with the room.
Measurement led contemporary active loudspeaker designs are the state of the art.
Modern designs offer 'cardioid' response, less sound from the rear and sides allowing more direct sound, you simply hear more.
Constant directivity means the 'on' and 'off' axis response is the same, older designs ragged off-axis response coloured their relatively flat on axis.
Phase coherent, perfect step response, full-range 20Hz to 20kHz, built in parametric EQ to cure 'boomy' bass, which is not poor loudspeaker design, simply the result of the sounds interaction with the physical dimensions of your room.
Boomy bass is caused when the wavelength of a particular frequency is twice the length/height/width of your room, bouncing back and forth adding energy to that particular frequency.
To remove the 'boom' we simply acoustically measure your room with REW ( Room EQ Wizard ) software, it determines the parameters of the filters needed and we simply enter them into the loudspeakers software.
The result completely full-range sound, deep, tight, punchy bass without a trace of overhang.
Speakers such as AsciLab's C8C are almost a complete system within themselves, just add a source, perhaps a Wiim or Eversolo streamer, inexpensive, packed with useful features and in terms of sound quality as good as anything at any price.
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Purité Audio make a point of representing the finest measuring loudspeakers currently available.
Dutch&Dutch, GGNTKT, Harry Yeung's astonishing 'Audio First' and of course AsciLab,
( Acoustic Science Laboratory ) Jinsung Ko, designs arguably the very finest loudspeakers currently extant and they offer incredible value for money.
Their C8C/BX8C,( £10500 per pair inc vat ) full-range, four -way active cardioid designs, sit firmly in my personal top two best ever loudspeakers that i have heard, the other is GGNTKT's M3 of course we represent both.
We have the finest measuring loudspeaker for every application and every budget .
The finest engineering and no bullshit ever.
Purité Audio London.
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