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Ute digna augue Summing it up… Brand/model: Reference 3a Royal Virtuoso Price: C$5600/US$4000 Dimensions: 40 x 30 x 33 cm Sensitivity: 92 dB Impedance: 8 ohms Most liked: Borem zzriuscipsum dionsenim zzriliq uamconulla consed dolor sendreros nostrud tet alis augiam dolummy nostrud mod modo exerius cillut vel duismod ming eros nullupt. CROSSTALK Wis eu feu faccum zzrillaore do dolent aciduipit lobore commolut augue magnismod modolen. —Reine Lessard Faccum eugiat, voloborero eugue veliqui tet, sim velendreet loborem dolortis dunt laor inis digna feugiat. Em ad molore dolorem velit wisl dolese do exeriustrud eros ea commodit ip eugait luptat nibh endre do conullaore estie magniat. Adio od tem del dio dit ad eu faciduipit adiamet dolesequat lor sit ad dolorpe rostie mod dio odiamet umsandre tem dolorer susci blandrem iril utet et velenim nonsectet, verit laor sustrud dolorero duis accumsan vel utat, venit landips ustrud eu feuisci blan ulput velit luptatet aute del ea feum vel utpat. 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Wilson Benesch Curve We recall hearing a pair of Wilson Benesch speakers some years ago at the Montreal show, and it was the sort of experience that one talks about after: “Have you heard the…” This British company was originally known for turntables, not speakers. One aspect of its turntables that had grabbed everyone’s attention was the tone arm. It wasn’t steel, or aluminum, or even titanium, it was made from carbon fi bre. Truth to tell, Wilson Benesch was not alone in having fi gured out the advantages of carbon. Carbon is of course the building block of terrestrial life. It can also take on other forms, from coal to diamonds. It offers a rich portfolio of attractive qualities. It is light (in the sense that for a given volume it has low mass), it can be made very rigid despite its low mass, and it is self-damping (it will not store energy for a long period, nor release it at audible frequencies). And carbon fi bre is fi nding its way into a lot of modern products. Race cars use carbon fi bre parts, as do some road cars, notably the Jaguar XKR. Motorcycle panels and entire bicycle frames can be made of carbon. So are photo tripods, fishing rods, sailing masts, flutes, violin bows, pens and battery plates. The tail of the Airbus A380 is made from carbon fi bre, and there is a radar-proof carbon stealth yacht on the drawing boards. Rumors have it Apple will make the next Mac PowerBook from Diamonds are made from carbon. So are these loudspeakers. the stuff. Architect Peter Testa even wants to build an entire skyscraper from carbon fi bre. Of course the material has been incorporated into high end audio products too. Tone arms aside, a number of manufacturers use woofer cones of woven carbon fi bres, including another speaker reviewed in this issue. And you’ll recall that Van den Hul brought out an entire line or audio cables using carbon fi bre instead of metal. The Wilson Benesch Curve uses this miracle material in two ways. Both its midrange driver and its woofer have cones made of woven carbon fi bre. The two drivers are the same diameter, 17 mm, but the weave is coarser on the woofer than on the midrange. And then the cabinet’s structure is shaped from a carbon fi bre matrix imbedded in epoxy. In this composite form, it is fi ve times stronger than steel, weight for weight. The Curve’s tweeter uses a silk dome, with a 2nd order crossover between it and the midrange. A gentler fi rst-order crossover separates woofer and midrange. Crossover frequencies are not stated. The crossover uses polypropylene capacitors, and air-core inductors that are not prone to saturation. The speaker is certainly handsome. It might be easy to tip over were it not for the cast aluminum base which is permanently fastened to the speaker body. The spikes themselves are gorgeously machined, with knurled knobs to make them easy to adjust from the top. The locking nuts can then be tightened with the supplied wrench. Because the Curves are of manageable size, it seemed possible to try them within the reduced confi nes of our Alpha room, and that’s what we did fi rst. We began with one of our favorite test LPs, William Walton’s Façade, and we wondered whether we might have made a mistake bringing the Curves here. The piccolo in the introduction was shrill, but we’ve learned to tolerate that, at least if what follows is worth waiting for. And it was…to an extent. The amount of detail the Curves dug out was impressive, and Walton’s intricate counterpoints came out beautifully. So why weren’t we happy? “The impression it leaves me,” said Albert, “was that they ULTRA HIGH FIDELITY <strong>Magazine</strong> 45 Listening Room
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