Item Condition: Very Good
Shipping Options: Pickup available and you can audition.
Suburb or Town: Richmond melbourne
State: VIC
Payment Method: cash EFT
Reason for selling: Moving - Surplus to future
MARKAUDIO Speaker with 19mm silk dome supertweeter
In hand finished complex Solid (18MM ) Merbau series (3) chamber , reflex boxes .
Amenable domestic size 80cm H x 24cm W x 20 cm deep
Deep convincing fast , deep ( 42 Hz) bass due to complex TCSR (triple chamber series reflex) tuned boxes -which also has the benefit of flattening and distributing the impedance curve for better amplifier loading. Ideal match for low power tube amplifiers
Some of you will be aware of MarkAudio (Mark Fenlon, ex Goodmans designer , formerly of UK , then Hong Kong, lately Spain) famous for his superb full range metal cone drivers , in the ilk of Ted Jordan (RIP - famous Goodmans , Jordan Watts , Jordan designer )
Truly international design effort , European /iconic FR design expertise , Japanese expertise in spiders , cones , basket , hand assembled just over the Hong Kong border with Southern China around ShenZhen
However to my ears, the much more limited range of Markaudio paper cone speakers are the superb sonic gems of both ranges - clean , fast, efficient non fatiguing. The smaller cones are stiff and superlight and quick , in many respects outperforming the larger types
In talking recently with the MAHK management, there is some agreement, the challenge being that the custom designed paper cones have minimum order quantities of 3000 pieces per size - a big investment for a niche, elite manufacturer .
The small 19mm silk dome supertweeter is added above 10Khz as single cone Full range FR drivers tend to beam a lot at successively higher frequencies for suboptimum sound presentation.
These have been my recent personal speakers and sonically outperform very many of their commercial competition boasting many times higher prices
Not for head banger music but superb for jazz/blues/vocal /pop at usual domestic volumes
Limited audition available for serious buyers
Pick up for Richmond Melbourne
Edited 2 minutes ago by VintHiFi
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