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Peak Consult Empress

"If the standard is whether or not I would live with a speaker, the Empress is about as highly recommended as they come... ...Would I buy 'em if I had $25 grand? Oh, heavens to Betsy, yes. It wasn't love at first sight but I could listen to the Empress for a lifetime." - Wes Phillips,Stereophile"

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 Empress. An impedance curve and electrical phase character like an electrostatic speaker, the final blend of art and technology have made The Empress an uncompromising work of art. The Empress is a true State of Art Loudspeaker.

The Name
The Empress 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 like the most beautiful Empress. “Nothing given and nothing taken, just pure music” and still behaves like an Empress."

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - STEREOPHILE REVIEW

Enclosure
The multifaceted enclosure is handcrafted in our own facilities by Danish artisans in a 1.5”- 3.0” HDF specially glued sandwich material covered by 1” solid wood. The side panels have been made out of “finger tapped” wood. Each wood panel has been hand-chosen and assembled by Danish artisans.

The design optimises the off-axis response and avoids diffraction. There are no parallel front, back, top or bottom panels in order to eliminate acoustical standing waves. 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" soft dome, SD-2 motor, low compression design, and non-resonant chamber. The tweeter performs effortlessly in sonic behaviours.

The Danish 4” Audiotechnology midrange is hand-built specifically for optimal behaviour in The Empress 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.

The Danish 8” Audiotechnology woofer is hand-built and specifically designed for The Empress. The technology used in the moving system makes it a very low-loss driver. The magnet and ventilation system makes the driver reproduce very tight and extremely low frequencies.

Network
The speaker 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. Peak Consult have chosen to include the best cable available to High End Audio: The purest solid core silver cable from Stereovox.

Finishes

The Empress 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.


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