{"id":161465,"date":"2023-05-15T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=161465"},"modified":"2023-10-18T05:56:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T04:56:52","slug":"audiosolutions-figaro-mk2-speakers-will-be-at-the-high-end-show-2023-in-munich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/speakers\/audiosolutions-figaro-mk2-speakers-will-be-at-the-high-end-show-2023-in-munich\/","title":{"rendered":"AudioSolutions Figaro MK2 speakers will be at the High End Show 2023 in Munich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AudioSolutions\u00a0will show the second generation of its most popular acoustic model\u00a0Figaro at the\u00a0<i>High\u00a0<\/i><i>End\u00a0<\/i><i>Show\u00a0<\/i><i>2023<\/i> opening this week in Munich . The speaker is marked with the MK2 suffix in the title.<i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><b><\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/techweek-audiosolutions-figaro-mk2-speakers-will-be-at-the-high-end-show-2023-in-munich.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>External changes are quite significant &#8211;\u00a0AudioSolutions\u00a0Figaro\u00a0MK\u00a02\u00a0began to look much more modern.\u00a0At the same time, the proportions of the speaker cabinets remained the same.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that the first generation AudioSolutions Figaro were truly revolutionary speakers, over the five years of their production, the developers have collected enough information about what could be improved.\u00a0All this was implemented in the AudioSolutions Figaro MK2.<b><\/b><b><\/b><b><\/b><b><\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/80_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the most anticipated upgrades was the studded outrigger system at the base of the column.\u00a0The acoustic system has not only become more stable, but the contact area with the supporting surface has also been minimized.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/81_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><br \/>\nCrossovers have been significantly upgraded in the new model.\u00a0For windings of inductors with air cores, conductors of a larger cross section were used.\u00a0In addition, a new PCB layout has been developed, resulting in even shorter signal paths.\u00a0The AudioSolutions Figaro MK2 continues to use the quality WBT Next-Gen screw terminals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/82_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The most significant update concerns the speaker cabinet design.\u00a0In the first generation Figaro, the manufacturer used a self-locking cabinet (\u00a0<i>Self-Locking cabinet<\/i>\u00a0), first used in the AudioSolutions Overture MK2 model in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The AudioSolutions Figaro MK2 case is an evolution of this solution, first implemented in the Virtuoso series in 2019.\u00a0AudioSolutions called this cabinet\u00a0<i>Cabinet-In-a-Cabinet (CIC)<\/i>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1_techweek-audiosolutions-figaro-mk2-speakers-will-be-at-the-high-end-show-2023-in-munich.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Specifications:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Type:<\/b>\u00a03-way floorstanding speaker<\/li>\n<li><b>Drivers:<\/b>\u00a02.5cm silk dome tweeter, 15.2cm ER paper cone midrange, dual 18.3cm ER paper cone woofer<\/li>\n<li><b>Crossover frequencies:<\/b>\u00a0400 Hz;\u00a04 kHz<\/li>\n<li><b>Frequency response (indoor):<\/b>\u00a030 Hz &#8211; 25 kHz<\/li>\n<li><b>Sensitivity:<\/b>\u00a091.5dB at 2.83V, 1m<\/li>\n<li><b>Rated impedance:<\/b>\u00a04.0 ohm<\/li>\n<li><b>Rated input power:<\/b>\u00a0170 W (RMS)<\/li>\n<li><b>Maximum input power:<\/b>\u00a0340 W<\/li>\n<li><b>Single speaker dimensions (H\u00a0<\/b><b>x\u00a0<\/b><b>W\u00a0<\/b><b>x\u00a0<\/b><b>D):<\/b>\u00a01,138 x 270 x 472 mm<b><\/b><b><\/b><b><\/b><b><\/b><b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Single speaker weight:<\/b>\u00a045kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AudioSolutions\u00a0will show the second generation of its most popular acoustic model\u00a0Figaro at the\u00a0High\u00a0End\u00a0Show\u00a02023 opening this week in Munich . The speaker is marked with the MK2 suffix in the title. External changes are quite significant &#8211;\u00a0AudioSolutions\u00a0Figaro\u00a0MK\u00a02\u00a0began to look much more modern.\u00a0At the same time, the proportions of the speaker cabinets remained the same. Despite the [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/speakers\/audiosolutions-figaro-mk2-speakers-will-be-at-the-high-end-show-2023-in-munich\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":161466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[646],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-161465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-speakers","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161465","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=161465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}