ACOUSTIC ENERGY CORINIUM FLOORSTANDING LOUDSPEAKERS
ACOUSTIC ENERGY'S flagship CORINIUM floorstanding loudspeakers comprise a soft dome HF unit and carbon fibre midrange and bass drivers, the high sensitivity design produces a fast, detailed presentation, with excellent driver integration, sounding more like a point source loudspeaker. Add in their unfussy placement, and you have an accomplished high end loudspeaker that will perform in smaller spaces just as well as it does in larger spaces.
Tweeter
Building on the success of our carbon fibre dome on the 500 series, we identified the need to use an even lighter dome for the Corinium to maximise the transient response of the system. So, we searched for a material lighter than carbon fibre and subsequently sourced a new soft dome material. This newly developed tweeter design has now proven to lower coloration, increase delicate high-speed transients and reproduce the very finest detail and refinement.
Mid and Bass Drivers
At the heart of the Corinium is the midrange drive unit. Covering 5 octaves it’s the key element which produces most of the sound from the loudspeaker system. The new carbon fibre cone and surround helps provide specific tonal qualities we were targeting for this speaker… offering the most natural sound and realistic musical performance. The extra width of the Corinium cabinet allowed us to house a slightly larger bass driver. We went back to basics to develop a brand-new bass alignment that combines weight, speed and slam to produce a natural, realistic sound from what’s still a fairly compact loudspeaker system. In conjunction, we developed a brand new 140mm bass driver to produce a big, powerful, controlled and natural bass sound.
Crossover
Optimised for best transient performance, our 3-way crossover blends the power output of each transducer to provide a rich, tonally balanced sound. High quality components are used throughout including air core inductors, metalized polypropylene film capacitors and metal oxide resistors. The crossover is connected to the drive units using audiophile grade internal wiring which features a patented arrangement of conductors to give the best possible musical detail and dynamic expression.
Cabinet
All these ground-breaking new drive unit and crossover developments are housed in a beautifully curved, exquisitely finished inert enclosure. The hybrid ‘Resonance Suppression Composite’ (RSC) cabinets have a minimum thickness of 22mm and vary up to 50mm for optimal performance. The 4° tilt improves the time alignment of sound to listener, whilst the 6mm ultra rigid aluminium front baffle firmly houses the drivers and isolates any cabinet resonances from the listening environment.
Mid-Range Driver | 120mm Carbon Fibre cone
Bass Drivers | 2 x 140mm Carbon Fibre cones
Tweeter | 29mm Soft dome
Design | 3 way reflex loaded with curved RSC cabinet and aluminium baffle
Frequency Range | 32Hz – 30kHz (- 6dB) / 38Hz – 25kHz (-3dB)
Sensitivity | 92dB/m/2.83v
Power Handling | 200w
Crossover Frequency | 260Hz / 3400Hz
Impedance | 4ohms
Connections | 4mm Single wired banana sockets / 9mm spade connections
Spike Thread | M10 x 1.5
Dimensions | H 1100mm (inc. spikes) x W 280mm (Spike point to point), 315mm (edge of foot to foot) x 385mm
Weight | 40kg (per speaker)We would prefer the Corinium to be an in-store purchase, but we can ship - please get in touch for stock availability.
We try and keep on top of our pricing, but it's a mammoth task for one person. So, if you see this product offered cheaper elsewhere, or you are offered it for less elsewhere (proof will be required) and you feel like supporting an extremely independent retailer, do get in touch and we will do our very best to match or beat wherever we can. We can't promise to do so, as there may some extenuating circumstances where we just wouldn't be able to, but we'll always do what we can.
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