{"id":119171,"date":"2021-01-25T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=119171"},"modified":"2023-06-22T08:51:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T07:51:59","slug":"albedo-atesia-new-flagship-floorstanding-speakers-powered-by-helmholtz-resonators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/speakers\/albedo-atesia-new-flagship-floorstanding-speakers-powered-by-helmholtz-resonators\/","title":{"rendered":"Albedo Atesia &#8211; New flagship floorstanding speakers powered by Helmholtz resonators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we wrote about three-way acoustic systems\u00a0<b>Axcentia MKII of the<\/b>\u00a0Italian company\u00a0<b>Albedo<\/b>\u00a0.\u00a0Today it is the turn of the flagship floor acoustics\u00a0<b>Atesia<\/b>\u00a0, which has absorbed all the innovative technologies of the company.\u00a0Among them is the\u00a0<b>Helmholine<\/b>\u00a0mirror frequency response equalization system based on Helmholtz resonators\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Albedo Atesia - flagship floorstanding speakers powered by Helmholtz resonators\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/18406fa81058496b66d41178a4224c13.jpg\" alt=\"Albedo Atesia - flagship floorstanding speakers powered by Helmholtz resonators\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A large number of metal parts are used in the construction of large speakers 180 cm high and each weighing 170 kg.\u00a0Massive aluminum side panels are combined with milled aluminum bases and top covers made of the same winged metal.\u00a0To provide increased rigidity, steel rods are used inside the housings.\u00a0All this determines such a considerable weight of the acoustics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Albedo Atesia - flagship floorstanding speakers powered by Helmholtz resonators\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/3624b0eb8e33be2c0a5f2dea32007233.jpg\" alt=\"Albedo Atesia - flagship floorstanding speakers powered by Helmholtz resonators\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<b>Albedo Atesia<\/b>\u00a0used the dynamics of\u00a0<b>Accuton<\/b>\u00a0, mounted in d&#8217;Appolito configuration.\u00a0The bass register is entrusted to four drivers with 8-inch diameter ceramic cones.\u00a0The mid-range is served by a pair of five-inch drivers, also with ceramic diffusers.\u00a0The centerpiece is the one-inch diamond tweeter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Albedo Atesia - flagship floorstanding speakers powered by Helmholtz resonators\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/33f8f91073bac0b451751a6ccc27b297.jpg\" alt=\"Albedo Atesia - flagship floorstanding speakers powered by Helmholtz resonators\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The crossover with second-order filters is assembled using audiophile\u00a0<b>Mundorf<\/b>\u00a0components\u00a0.\u00a0The flagships operate in the range from 27 Hz to 33 kHz and with a nominal impedance of 4 ohms demonstrate a sensitivity of 87 dB, which makes it necessary to pay special attention to the selection of a decent amplification.<\/p>\n<p><b>Albedo Atesia<\/b>\u00a0speaker systems\u00a0<b>are<\/b>\u00a0offered in leather trim, decorated with natural walnut veneer, or in black piano lacquer.\u00a0In Europe, the recommended price for a pair of speakers was\u00a0<b>118 thousand euros<\/b>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>[ratemypost]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we wrote about three-way acoustic systems\u00a0Axcentia MKII of the\u00a0Italian company\u00a0Albedo\u00a0.\u00a0Today it is the turn of the flagship floor acoustics\u00a0Atesia\u00a0, which has absorbed all the innovative technologies of the company.\u00a0Among them is the\u00a0Helmholine\u00a0mirror frequency response equalization system based on Helmholtz resonators\u00a0. &nbsp; A large number of metal parts are used in the construction of large [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/speakers\/albedo-atesia-new-flagship-floorstanding-speakers-powered-by-helmholtz-resonators\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":119172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[646],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-119171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-speakers","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}