Acoustic Energy Corinium Floorstanding Speakers – British Racing Green – EX DEMO

Here we have a pair of Acoustic Energy’s top of the range floorstanding loudspeakers – The Corinium. They are ex-demonstration units and are in very good condition noting a small blemish on the front left corner of one cabinet – please refer to photographs. They are finished in the rather fetching British Racing Green colour, supplied in original factory packaging along with manual, grilles and full manufacturer’s warranty.
Acoustic Energy Say….
Corinium by Acoustic Energy is the latest addition to our award-winning line up of loudspeakers. The culmination of a three-year project for our in-house design team, this brand-new, next-generation floor-standing model is set to establish further new standards in performance, design and value.
By tearing up our previous rule book and starting with a blank sheet of paper, we examined music reproduction in detail and subsequently achieved small gains in every area. When added together they’ve resulted in a loudspeaker which is markedly more dynamic, more live sounding and more musically involving than any previous generation of product we’ve designed.
It’s been an exhaustive process examining each element and its relationship to the whole. We avoided spending time and effort on areas that mattered less and invested time and money on areas we found offered the largest
gains. This included developing a new carbon fibre cone and motor system for the mid/bass drivers, sourcing a new and unique soft dome material for the tweeter, careful selection of crossover components to match the
drivers and creating an enclosure that’s both acoustically and aesthetically stunning.
We hope you agree we’ve produced something which, not only compares well with its competitors but actually goes someway beyond, by offering something more sophisticated, more musical and delivered in way previously only available in a rarefied space occupied by the select few. We hope Corinium will award you with many years of musical enjoyment.
And finally, why the name? Cirencester in the beautiful Cotswolds, our hometown for more than 25 years, was an important outpost in Roman Britain. In fact, it was the most important town outside of London. They named it ‘Corinium’ and we’re proud to name our most significant and impressive loudspeaker to-date after our namesake.
Building on the success of our carbon fibre dome on the 500 series, we identified the need to use an even lighter dome for the Corinium to maximise the transient response of the system. So, we searched for a material lighter than carbon fibre and subsequently sourced a new soft dome material. This newly developed tweeter design has now proven to lower coloration, increase delicate high-speed transients and reproduce the very finest detail and refinement.
At the heart of the Corinium is the midrange drive unit. Covering 5 octaves it’s the key element which produces most of the sound from the loudspeaker system. The new carbon fibre cone and surround helps provide specific tonal qualities we were targeting for this speaker… offering the most natural sound and realistic musical performance. The extra width of the Corinium cabinet allowed us to house a slightly larger bass driver. We went back to basics to develop a brand-new bass alignment that combines weight, speed and slam to produce a natural, realistic sound from what’s still a fairly compact loudspeaker system. In conjunction, we developed a brand new 165 mm bass driver to produce a big, powerful, controlled and natural bass sound.
Optimised for best transient performance, our 3-way crossover blends the power output of each transducer to provide a rich, tonally balanced sound. High quality components are used throughout including air core inductors, metalized polypropylene film capacitors and metal oxide resistors. The crossover is connected to the drive units using audiophile grade internal wiring which features a patented arrangement of conductors to give the best possible musical detail and dynamic expression.
All these ground-breaking new drive unit and crossover developments are housed in a beautifully curved, exquisitely finished inert enclosure. The hybrid ‘Resonance Suppression Composite’ (RSC) cabinets have a minimum thickness of 22 mm and vary up to 50 mm for optimal performance. The 4° tilt improves the time alignment of sound to listener, whilst the 6 mm ultra rigid aluminium front baffle firmly houses the drivers and isolates any cabinet resonances from the listening environment.
Specifications:
Mid-Range Driver: 120 mm Carbon Fibre cone
Bass Drivers: 2 x 140 mm Carbon Fibre cones
Tweeter: 29 mm Soft dome
Design: 3 way reflex loaded with curved RSC cabinet and aluminium baffle
Frequency Range: 32 Hz – 30 kHz (- 6 dB) / 38 Hz – 25 kHz (- 3 dB)
Sensitivity: 92 dB/m/2.83 V
Power Handling: 200 W
Crossover Frequency: 260 Hz / 3400 Hz
Impedance: 4 ohms
Connections: 4 mm Single wired banana sockets / 9 mm spade connections
Dimensions: 1100 (H) x 280 (W) x 315 (D) mm
Weight: 40.0 kg (each)

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