Audio Solutions Vantage M

Description

Celebrating their 5th anniversary Audio Solutions aimed to create something completely new with fresh looks, different kind of materials, and eye catching lines. This line shouldn’t have classical looks or classical technical decisions. It should be extravagant and represent our vision in speaker quality standards for upcoming products and give a leading tone to our speaker design as well as differ itself among others. So don’t mind bright makeup, after all we are celebrating the 5th anniversary!

Audio Solutions Vantage M Floor Standing Speaker

Flagship line of all AudioSolutions products. It naturally evolved from Vantage Classic speakers. The difference takes place not only in outer looks with completely fresh lines and outlines, but also manufacturing materials, technique and overall evolution in designing such complicated loudspeakers as a system of many components working in perfect harmony.

Designed to be much more rigid construction compared to all previous models AudioSolutions had produced. SBP plywood is used (Siberian Birch Plywood) for internal labyrinth structure as well as for sidewalls and curved top. Siberian Birch grows slower than simple birch, thus making it much denser and tighter. Whole structure is modeled with best software available for resonance free surfaces. Actually properties of our cabinet from SBP plywood results in structure which properties are better than aluminum. Due to many bent surfaces, plywood has left some internal stress which damps any resonances with ease. This technique of leaving some stress in materials was used by AudioSolutions from the very beginning. Step by step this technique was developed to what we manufacture today – 18 layers sandwich of thin rectangular orientated wood sheets along with some HDF in critical layers glued together with three types of glue differing in hardness when cured.

Features

Vantage M (medium) is middle sized speaker in the range. Created under the same philosophy as other products in the range – to have the same scale of sound among all sizes of speakers in range and have been devoted for special purposes. Like model B is devoted for short listening distances, or model S for normal distances but smaller rooms, Vantage M is devoted to be used in everyday environment with 30-100 sq.m room (bigger if acoustically treated). Despite being from the “big speaker breed” Vantage M looks and feels like smaller speaker in room due to clever design, but punches with attitude which reminds that they are surely from “big speakers breed”.

Designed around fresh 6” wideband midrange driver and supported by customized beryllium tweeter. Accompanied by down firing aluminum cone 10” subwoofer and two front firing 6.5” paper woofers. The company of five drivers per speaker makes Vantage Anniversary small but mighty.

As a standard in AudioSolutions products mini horn is introduced here to enhance tweeter performance by lowering distortions and raising efficiency in critical region.

Cabinet decorated with highly durable top coat made from crushed stone and polyurethane lacquer gives speaker durability and effect of matte surface with glittering particles. Very unique and stylish accent which give looks of broken stone piece.

Never used before top-grade 3D vinyl is used to decorate back and cut-out of sidewall. Much concern was said about durability of such material during design phase. But damage tests proved that this material is actually tougher than any veneer, leather, even paints. We feel very confident about our decision to use such materials in our products. New vinyl textures gives customer completely new view to speaker and for us – designers it opens new horizons to work with.

Exceptional 5th Anniversary Edition Features

More Features In Detail:

Adjustable Crossover

Vantage anniversary speakers are equipped with adjustable crossover allowing You to make level corrections depending on Your listening taste or simply to tame a room. Level corrections are limited to 2.5dB window preventing from tonal disbalance but making big impact if one needs to balance speakers>audio gear>room combo. Whole network is based only on extremely low inductance resistors meaning that only sound level will change when knob is turned.

Mini-Horn

Audio Solutions speakers are equipped with Mini Horn loading, a special treatment for soft dome tweeters. Soft dome tweeters are known to have high distortions when driven loud. Distortions rise exponentially because the center part of the dome stops moving at certain levels and frequencies, thus flexes uncontrollably due to the soft dome nature.

Some manufacturers use an ark over the tweeter’s dome with dampening material touching the center to reduce this unwanted flex. However, this system is not linear at different listening levels. The fixed force exerted by the dampening material does not change with the tweeter’s excursion.

Others use stiffening materials like titanium bracing glued to the dome. This solution is better but not without flaws. It stiffens the structure but adds mass, increasing inertia and affecting impulse characteristics and sensitivity. Additionally, it is expensive to manufacture with low tolerances to ensure consistent electrical and acoustical parameters between samples.

Our Mini Horn, on the other hand, is more efficient to manufacture and maintain low tolerances. Mini-Horn is based on acoustical dampening, similar to usual horns. We carefully measure the frequencies at which the tweeter starts to flex and emit distortions. The Mini Horn is designed to dampen those frequencies, providing proportional dampening to the tweeter’s movement.

The louder it plays, the more dampening it receives from its own emitted sound. This is described as acoustical impedance and is highly dependent on the Mini Horn’s shape. Additionally, the Mini Horn increases sensitivity because of its horn-like structure, rather than reducing it by restricting movement like previous solutions.