Kudos Titan 505 Standmount Speakers - Oak

Whilst the Titan 505 looks a little different to the rest of the series, it delivers just as much breathtaking design and musicality as its bigger floorstanding counterparts. The Titan 505 is the smaller sister-speaker to the Titan 606 - offering the same musical performance and sonic clarity as its floorstanding sibling - in a more compact, stand-mounted cabinet. The Titan 505 is the ideal place for serious bookshelf loudspeaker enthusiasts to begin listening with Kudos, whilst introducing Titan-quality design and engineering into their system setup.
The Titan series features drive units crafted exclusively for Kudos by world-leading specialists SEAS. All four Titans share the same superb K3 tweeter, a version of a legendary SEAS unit specially re-engineered to tailor its capabilities for the Titans. The 505’s use a custom 180mm mid-bass unit with a die-cast chassis with large open areas, a coated paper cone and a 39mm voice coil designed for low-distortion, high linearity and low crossover modulation.
All drivers are precisely matched and aligned to work together seamlessly, delivering an effortless ‘just right’ sound. When you hear it, you’ll know it.
The purer the signal, the truer the sound. A Kudos loudspeaker preserves a clean and clear audio signal by favouring a minimal design with our trademark, low-order crossover. The Titan series’ superior quality components are tailored specifically for Kudos to stringent tolerances. They include Mundorf’s MResist Supreme resistors and air-core inductors, and ClarityCap’s unique CopperConnect technology capacitors.
The best designs are a marriage of form and function. The Titans’ modernist design blends effortlessly into the contemporary home. Concealed within, however, is a highly complex system of differential panel resonance control. While keeping a rigorously tight grip on any and all unwanted vibrations, this smart system gives full and free rein to the natural dynamics of your music.
Bass is key to how we hear music, so our Titan series goes above and beyond in ensuring superior sound at the all-important lower end. The Titan 505’s isobaric and bass reflex loading is cleverly engineered to deliver a more agile, nuanced, textured and detailed bass reproduction.
The Titan series is configured for simple bypass of the internal crossover, enabling seamless active operation when partnered with the new Kudos SIGAO DRIVE and virtually any amplifier brand you choose. Active operation opens up a wider upgrade path and unlocks a variety of performance and personalisation-enhancing capabilities.

Kudos Audio is one of the fastest growing high-performance loudspeaker brands in the UK. Deliberately daring to move beyond the traditional rulebook, Kudos takes an uncommon approach to loudspeaker design.
Daring we may be, but the Kudos approach is firmly rooted in three key principles: expertise, engineering and emotion. From the outset, we have focused on a clear goal: to explore how world-class expertise in audio design and engineering can realise not merely outstanding sound quality, but ground-breaking musical quality. The kind that inspires toe-tapping, soul-stirring, spine-tingling, heart-rending, emotion.
The Kudos team combines its own considerable know-how in audio design and live sound engineering with the skills of several leading European suppliers to create unique, bespoke components and solutions. Every single Kudos loudspeaker is then hand-built, in England.
A Kudos loudspeaker is therefore a genuine original.
And your emotional experience? One of a kind.
A Kudos loudspeaker is created not just for music, but by music. Every step of the design process involves hundreds of hours of research, development and testing using a particularly fine technical instrument: the human ear. Why? Because the thrill of a sublime
musical performance requires much more than measured sound quality.
EXCEPTIONAL, CUSTOM-MADE DRIVERS
Our unique drivers are custom designed in collaboration with leading experts, SEAS. Within each individual Titan loudspeaker the drivers are precisely matched and aligned to work seamlessly, as one. Together, they convey an effortless ‘just right’ sound. When you hear it, you know it.
ISOBARIC WITH FIXED BOUNDARY LOADING
Bass plays a powerful role in how we hear music, which is why the Titan design goes above and beyond in delivering superior sound at the all-important lower end. Our isobaric and fixed boundary loading are key to a more agile, nuanced, textured and detailed bass reproduction.
ACTIVE CONFIGURATION (UPGRADEABLE)
The Titan range is configured to allow simple by-passing of the internal crossover for active operation with leading electronics including
Linn Exakt, Devialet Expert and Exposure VXN. Active operation opens up a wider upgrade path and enables a variety of performance and personalisation enhancing capabilities.
LOW-ORDER CROSSOVER AND MINIMAL DESIGN FOR A PURER SOUND
The purer the signal, the truer the sound. The Titan design preserves a clean and clear audio signal by favouring a minimal design with our trademark, low-order crossover. Superb quality components (Mundorf, Clarity Caps) are tailored specifically for Kudos to stringent tolerances.
INTERIOR DESIGN
The best designs are a marriage of form and function. The Titans’ modernist elegance blends effortlessly into the contemporary home. Concealed within is a complex system of differential panel resonance control, which masterfully curbs vibrations without disturbing the natural dynamics of your music.

Type: 2-way Isobaric bass reflex standmount
Recommended Amplifier Power Detail: 25 W - 250 W
Sensitivity: 87 dB @ 1 W, 1 m
Nominal Impedance: 6 ohms
Frequency Range: 40 Hz – 30 kHz AIRR (average in-room response)
Tweeter: SEAS – Kudos Crescendo K3 29 mm fabric dome
Mid/Bass Driver: 2 x SEAS-Kudos 180 mm unit with double coated paper cone, 39 mm voice coil with copper shorting ring and aluminium phase plug
Dimensions: 450 (H) x 256 (W) x 320 (D) mm
Weight: 18.0 kg (each)

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