Avalon Acoustics Opus Ceramique Floorstanding Speaker - Consignment

Avalon Acoustics Opus Ceramique Floorstanding Speaker - Consignment

Condition: Very Good, some minor dents to cabinetry only (see photos)

Includes: Original Shipping Crates, Banana Adaptors 

SN: 0462

Overview

Avalon Acoustics' Opus Ceramique was conceived to scale down the award winning original Opus speaker to better suit more moderate sized rooms.  The Ceramique is built entirely by hand and engineered using in-house proprietary electronic and acoustic measurement standards. 

In Avalon Acoustics' words "Purity of musical communication" was the design brief, and it's certainly fair to say it was achieved. 

We find this model really sings with class-A, tube based amplifiers.

• Advanced ultra-light weight ceramic driver diaphragm materials minimize energy storage and time-domain distortion
• Each driver individually tested and matched for optimum performance
• Smooth, wide polar response for superlative imaging capabilities
• Moderate impedance characteristic allows for ideal interface with any amplifier
• Star-grounding techniques eliminate signal modulation
• Crossover circuitry is hard-wired with surface-only conductors, eliminating deleterious sonic effects of printed-circuit boards
• Oversize screw terminals
• Careful crossover control of all magnetic field interaction
• Polypropylene capacitors used exclusively to minimize energy storage
• Proprietary damping circuits control each driver's electrical parameters, reducing interaction with the amplifier
• Constrained-mode damping system absorbs cabinet vibrations
• Four inch thick front panel supplies acoustically inert wave-launch platform
• Acoustically-engineered grille assembly decreases edge diffraction effects
• Distinctive faceted cabinet design provides optimal polar characteristics

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