AUSTIN
Interesting things can happen when you push
beyond normal limits.
Senior Acoustics Engineer, Dr. Andrew Watson and
the Reference Series design team set out to build
the most natural sounding loudspeakers possible,
irrespective of cost or practical constraints.
The ‘Austin’ concept was the result – a technological
tour de force standing two metres high and weighing
more than 120 kilos apiece. Awesome is the only
word to describe how they sound.
The project became the technology testbed for the
new Reference Series. The two-piece compound
titanium tweeter dome whose pistonic motion
reproduces higher frequencies with such effortless
clarity; the new shallower midrange cone that
disperses the soundfield so broadly; the elegant
fourth-order crossovers, computer-optimised for
superior driver integration.
Big ideas. Big sound. Big benefits.
GROUNDBREAKING