Hχεία Esoteric MG-20

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"When a company of Esoteric's sterling repute backed up by the bulging muscle of TEAC's pro-audio Tascam presence expands a product lineup to well beyond its established core competency of digital source components, ears point and eyebrows raise.

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Enter Tannoy which assembles Esoteric's new speakers in the UK. As one of the oldest speaker design houses in the world (their roots go back to early public address systems when telephony was still in its infancy), Esoteric could hardly have picked a more experienced partner to leverage its own lack of speaker production facilities. The fact that Japan remains the biggest specialty market for vintage Tannoys won't be lost on history buffs in this context. It's called going to the well.

Next enter Nippon Kinzoku Chemical Development. Together with Tannoy, a hi-tech fusion background emerges against which Esoteric's speaker project turns into a strategic 3-party joint effort. By itself, that echoes Harmonix's Reimyo project wherein diverse specialists from various companies pooled important key skills. As an engineering-driven outfit, Esoteric views itself as contributing something unique to the loudspeaker craft: 96% pure Magnesium diaphragms for both its new ½" dome tweeter and the matching 6.5" mid/woofer (that includes Mg for the latter's dust cap). Esoteric claims a superior Young modulus for Magnesium to make for the lightest yet stiffest possible diaphragm and produce the fastest, most uncolored and accurate transients. Two thin ceramic coatings over an organic fiber core produce the cone geometry for enhanced self damping and a circular corrugation in the mid/woofer is said to undermine self resonance - Esoteric designed, Nippon Kinzoku fabricated.


Credits for final voicing and project oversight fall on Alex Garner, Tannoy's famed technical director. He specified silver-coated van den Hul wiring for the hard-wired crossovers and opted for high density Birch Ply cabinets with solid, nicely contoured American Cherry side rails and panel veneers. Despite its 35.5" x 8.5" x 10.75" heavily braced, heavily damped 21.5 liter enclosure of mildly trapezoidal cross section, the final weight of the MG-20 thus remains a very modest 30.9lbs. The network combines a 2nd-order low-pass with a 3rd-order high-pass. Sensitivity is 89dB and minimum impedance is 3.7 ohms. In keeping with Tannoy tradition, the circular terminal array sports five posts, four for biriwing, the fifth as a ground post to undercut RF interference.

Seas of Norway already offers Magnesium/Aluminum alloy dome
tweeters and the well-known Excel Magnesium cone woofers with copper-colored phase plugs which reputedly require notch filters to remove very steep but narrow-band breakup modes. Especially the Excel woofers seem generally regarded as high-quality units and carry a concomitantly steep price tag. How unique Esoteric's new drivers really are in this context will be for the speaker design experts to determine. What we can safely conclude about Esoteric's speaker launch are three key items: strategic collaboration with first-rate industrial partners; proprietary, in-house designed drivers; final voicing and assembly by one of the world's foremost European speaker manufacturers. There's no 'made in China' cost cutting apparent anywhere within this ambitious product launch.

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Recommended setup is unusual in advocating extreme toe-in such that the speakers' direct axes cross between one and three feet in front of the listening seat. What an all Magnesium listening session will sound like is anyone's guess at the moment but we'll find out soon enough..."

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ποσο θα ηθελα να το ανακαλωδιοσω:cool_4:

 

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Έχουμε και review από το 6moons...


The MG-20s are very attractive, well built speakers. Knowing from a few reviews just how good Esoteric's digital is, I fail to believe that this company's engineering department has tanked their speaker mission. It's far


more realistic for me to accept that this dog has grown too old to learn a fundamentally new trick. This is a rare incident when a reviewer looks desperately forward to being sorely contradicted by a colleague or two. Public humiliation. Bring it on. What a gas.


Thinking back, Accuton-fitted ceramic driver speakers -- say Kharma and Marten Design -- have evoked similar personal responses in the past. Where others hear admirable rise times and tremendous transparency, I hear a lack of timbral verisimilitude, a lightness that's nervous and insufficiently anchored. That's not an external thing of missing bass per se. It's internal to each note, a lack of true substance, evenly top to bottom.


Again, the Esoteric MG-20 does most assuredly speak with one voice from lows to highs. It's simply a question of whether your nervous system will respond to its siren call or resist it like Ulysses. It seems most appropriate to leave it at that and let every traveller come to his or her own conclusion.

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