Audio Physic Virgo V Floorstanding Speakers – Cherry

Here we have a nice pair of floorstanding loudspeakers from German company Audio Physic. These well regarded speakers come in good condition, the only negatives being some discolouration to a couple of the feet, light marks to the cabinets and one of the grilles has a small hole – please see photographs. They will be shipped on a pallet and come with our standard three month warranty.
Audio Physic Say….
No loss of fine detail – this has been Audio Physic’s maxim for 25 years and has fuelled our passion, dedication and determination ever since. Our maxim carries in itself the will to never stop, to constantly challenge ourselves and, whenever necessary, explore new paths that have never been trodden before. Therefore vintage Audio Physic loudspeakers are not and never will be mainstream.
New Design, New Technology, New Sound … this gives a perfect summary of the changes being made to the VIRGO V. Never before in the long VIRGO success story has a redesign of a predecessor model been completed to such an extent. In terms of loudspeaker technology, the new VIRGO immensely benefits from its larger sister, the AVANTI, with which it shares the cabinet design as well as the highly sophisticated interior structure. Together, these features combine to take the sonic performance of the VIRGO into a new dimension. As a special feature in terms of technology, the revamped loudspeaker comes with a brand new Hyper Holographic Cone Midrange (HHCM) as the logical next step to complement the Hyper Holographic Cone Tweeter.
The HHCM driver, a new development by Audio Physic, uses a radically novel basket design to minimise resonances. Moving parts such as the diaphragm, the surround, the spider and the voice coil are held in proper alignment by a plastic basket designed to achieve a maximum degree of internal damping.
The neodymium magnet powering the system is encased in a diecast aluminium heat sink which is connected to the wide basket rim via slim bridges.
The aluminium diaphragm takes full advantage of Active Cone Damping II, Audio Physic’s further refined state-of-the-art technology implemented to avoid ringing resonances normally associated with stiff diaphragms.
Cone tweeters, notorious for being used in cheap loudspeakers picked off the supermarket shelves, went out of fashion years ago. New light weight, soft materials were implemented to reduce the overall moving mass, however these materials also required a new geometry to ensure stiffness and stability: The dome. With the introduction of new, stiff and yet lightweight materials, the use of dome-shaped tweeters is becoming questionable. Soft domes tend to wear out at an early stage where the movement at the rim is different from the movement occurring in the interior zone. As a result, the dome starts “to ring” where it adds its own audible colorations to the signal. Instead of hearing the music, you hear the sonic signature of a ringing tweeter. Light, stiff membrane material does not need to struggle with the trade-offs involved in using domes – therefore, in the case of midrange drivers, the use of domes has practically dissolved into thin air over the past couple of years. Audio Physic took the next logical step by further exploring the subject of cone membranes in tweeter systems. Already the first samples convinced the audience with their holographic reproduction displaying an unparalleled degree of plasticity.
Specifications:
Drive Units: Tweeter: 39 mm; Midrange: 150 mm; Woofer: 2 x 180 mm
Sensitivity: 89 dB
Frequency Range: 32 Hz – 40 kHz
Impedance: 4 Ohms
Recommended Amplifier Power: 30 – 180 W
Dimensions: 990 (H) x 230 (W) x 400 (D) mm
Weight: 27 kg