Chario Floorstanding Speakers Academy Sovran Walnut

Handcrafted

Natural wood changes shape depending on ambient temperature and relative humidity. In other words, it adapts to climate conditions. Natural wood changes shape depending on ambient temperature and relative humidity.

In other words, it adapts to climate conditions, generating outright tensions inside its fibres, which modify the macroscopic layout.

This fact is well-known to master cabinet-makers, who actually adapt techniques when assembling the various parts of any prized solid wood cabinet. Firstly, the right board has to be chosen and cut using precise criteria to avoid creating isolated and incompatible sections. Secondly, the right storage area and drying process are de ned for the rough wood.

Thirdly and lastly, the sections are assembled in a precise order, to allow the moisture absorbing capacity of each element to develop over time, settling to achieve soundness, not breakage. That’s why the CNC machines only cut and mill. The rest is time-honoured craftsmanship 

The Acoustic Doublet

The Acoustic Doublet proprietary theory that was developed for the Academy Sovran project allows even small-scale systems to use speaker/room interferences that will give listeners wave-fronts containing spatial information.

This type of information is linked to the size of the source and length of wave emitted and it’s unlikely to be conveyed to the listener by bookshelf loudspeakers, since a physical distance of at least 1m is needed between sources.

This is one of several reasons why Sovran adopts Reversed Woofer/ Tweeter Alignment, which keeps the woofer as far as possible from the subwoofer and at the same time provides the best angle for modelling the energy response around the second crossover region

• Technical Data

  Low Frequency Load 
  

  Vented NRS Exponentional Hourglass

  Vent Geometry

  Bi-dimensional Hyper-Exponential Hourglass Type

  Configuration 

  3-way Reversed Vertical Alignement Free-Standing

  Drivers

  1 Tweeter 32 mm SILVERSOFT™  dome NeFeB motor

  1 Woofer 170 mm ROHACELL ® Full-Apex Poly-Ring NeFeB motor

  2 Subwoofer 200 mm Natural Fibres Poly-Ring NeFeB motor

  Sensitivity 

  90 dB SPL normalized to 1 m / 2.83 Vrms / decorrelated L/R

  pink noise ITU-R BS 1116-1 compliant listening room

  Low Frequency Cut Off

  35 Hz @ -3dB referred to C4 WETS

  Doublet Crossover

  100 Hz

  Mid Hig Crossover

  1180 Hz / LKR4 Derived (Δf = 45°)

  Rated Impedance 

  Modulus 4 Ω (min 3.0) Argument ± 36°

  Cabinet

  Solid walnut and HDF. The structure comprises two cabinets:

  the lower contains two subwoofers; the upper contains one woofers, and

  one tweeter. The two wood cases are separated by four

  cylindrical proprietary-engineered elastomeric puffers

  acting as vibration decouplers to dissipate mechanical energy by orthogonal

  elongation

  Size & Weight

  1220 x 240 x 440 mm (H x W x D) / 47 Kg

  Speakers Orientation 

  Speakers should be tilted inward facing the listener

  Listening Distance 

  Optimum speaker-listener distance > 3.0 m

   

  Suggested Amplifier

  Normal Amping. - 180 W/4Ω Max Average Power

  Bi-Amping. - 120 W/4Ω Max Average Power