Icon
The Icon is made from hand crafted English Maple cabinets, aluminium extrusions and superb new flat loudspeaker technology to create a truly stunning modern loudspeaker of outstanding performance.
Using the next generation of the unique DML driver, the Cyrus SurfaceSound™ panel, the new 9 element carbon-fibre alloy honeycomb panel features 4 “exciters” that drive the Distributed Mode Panel creating modal energy across the panel. The panel covers 400Hz to 20kHz and the DML technology means the panel is the equivalent of a 46CM dome tweeter! No sweet spot or beaming here. The die-cast chassis of the unit is a direct replacement for the original so upgrading is a synch.
Conventional speakers have a fixed relationship between the high and low drivers, uniquely the Icon allows the useful in-phase output from the rear of the panel to be tuned to balance with the bass performance in the listeners room (not just the shop). This is the only loudspeaker in the world to allow this valuable tuning and it should be noted that the tuning preserves the technical excellence of the design, unlike bunging a bit of foam in the port!
Conventional speakers have a fixed relationship between the high and low drivers, uniquely the Icon allows the useful in-phase output from the rear of the panel to be tuned to balance with the bass performance in the listeners room (not just the shop). This is the only loudspeaker in the world to allow this valuable tuning and it should be noted that the tuning preserves the technical excellence of the design, unlike bunging a bit of foam in the port! Two powerful electromagnetic low mass exciters employing ferrofluid damping are mounted onto a precision die-cast chassis incorporating dual heatsinks. The driving surfaces of the exciters are bonded to a 9 element high tech laminate panel, constructed of unidirectional carbon fibre skins bonded to an aluminium honeycomb core. Even details such as the painted and printed finish were tuned to optimise performance. The precise exciter positions are critical to the performance and were defined only after extensive mathematical finite element analysis of the panel’s shape and modal behaviour across the entire frequency band.