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Peak Consult El Diablo

In the jungle of consumer and so-called “High-End” loudspeakers, there are some brands actually reaching for higher goals. Peak Consult is one of them, but how is that done?

Countless hours of measurement and critical listening by many audiophile ears have gone into making the finest three-way loudspeaker available. An impedance curve and electrical phase character like an electrostatic speaker, the final blend of art and technology have made El Diablo an uncompromising work of art. The State of Art Loudspeaker has seen the light of dawn.

The Name
El Diablo boasts an extremely linear frequency response, on-axis as well as of-axis. This makes it a very accurate loudspeaker in a “real World” environment. The name says it all; the speaker performs and looks second to none. “Nothing given and nothing taken just pure music” but clever and unforgiving like an El Diablo.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION

Enclosure
The multifaceted enclosure is handcrafted in our own facilities by skilled Danish artisans in a 1.5”- 3.0” HDF specially glued sandwich material covered by 1” solid wood. At several points a resonance suppresser has been used in the construction. Special resonance suppressers have also been milled into the each side panels. Each solid walnut panel has been hand-chosen by skilled Danish artisans.
The designs optimise the off-axis response and minimize any kind of diffraction. In order to eliminate acoustical waves, there are no parallel front, back, top or bottom panels. The slant of the front panel aligns the phase and timing between tweeter, midrange and woofer.

Transducers
The Danish Scan-Speak tweeter is a non-Ferro fluid 1” ring radiator, SD-2 neodymium motor with a non-resonant aluminium chamber. It features a multiple camber with low compression and a machined aluminium faceplate. The tweeter performs effortlessly to sonic extremes and brings the “air” as no dome tweeter before.

The Danish 5” Audiotechnology midrange is hand-built specifically for optimal behaviour in El Diablo’s enclosure. The driver features a cone that has been uniquely shaped for this moving system and a vented magnet system that includes Symmetric Drive, optimising the linear directivity. It performs with matchless sound staging ability and an imaging tight and sharp as a Diamond.

The dual Danish 9” Audiotechnology woofers is hand-built and specifically designed for El Diablo. Using new and special technology in the moving systems to make them very low-loss drivers. The huge magnets and ventilation systems makes the drivers reproduce very tight and extremely low frequencies - second to none.

Network
El Diablo includes an acoustical second order crossover in the tweeter/midrange section and also a second order in the midrange/bass section. Every component has been chosen for its sonic and musical behaviour, with no consideration for cost. The crossover is hardwired with silver soldering and sealed in the bottom of the speaker to avoid microphony and to shield it from electrical and magnetic radiation from rest of the system. For the internal wire Peak Consult has chosen the very best cable from the American high-end cable company: Stereovox, in a dual layer version. The Bi-wire termination is done with the best of the best: WBT platinum signature.

Finishes

The El Diablo is available in a number of finishes:

   Standard solid wood types:
    Rosewood, oak and beechwood.

   Special solid wood types:
    Wood stained in all colours, walnut or high gloss Piano Black or Silver metallic.

   Special solid wood types:
    Other special wood finishes can be done on special request.


Kharma Exquisite Midi 1A "From bottommost bass to topmost treble, from stage rear to stage front, from stage right to left, from stage bottom to top, from ppppto ffff, this system (powered by Lamm and sourced by Walker Audio and Shelter) is the most transparently detailed, tonally accurate, small- and large-scale dynamic, super-soundstaging stereo JV has heard. Plus, their smallish size and handsome looks means the Midis will fit in just about any room." Review by jonathan Vain AbsoluteSound Issue 151	Acapella Campanile"Close your eyes, you won’t be able to believe that the music is coming from a HiFi system. You will get the illusion to sit in a live concert with all the musicians just in front of you. Reach out your hand and touch them! Even at lower volumes, the phenomena remains".
German Physiks The Loreley MKIII Completely effortless, that’s the best way I can describe the sound of the new Loreley, Startling dynamics cymbals crash and shimmer with such lifelike finesse, whilst betraying no character of its own. The Loreley is truly neutral and just lets the music pour forth uninhibited. Close your eyes and you can hear every nuance of the recorded venue, pages being turned in the orchestra pit, or a guitarist tapping his feet while playing. Not so much a soundstage as the actual stage being reproduced.	Acapella Triolon Excalibur"Paul Messenger was on hand for a demonstration of Acapella's top-of-the-line Triolon Excalibur loudspeakers. After the impressive demonstration, Paul exclaimed, "That actually sounds like a real piano!" And that, of course, is what it's all about."

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