Yamaha Soavo 1 Floorstanding Speakers - Birchwood

The natural sound of Soavo. Music as it should be heard.
At Yamaha, we love, understand and respect music. We’re sure that you love music, too, and that when you listen to it, you want it to sound as natural as possible. We believe that “natural sound” is the original sound of musical instruments, and of the human voice, so they should be reproduced with nothing added or taken away. Giving you this beautiful music experience is the reason we created the Soavo series. Listen to Soavo and discover how truly natural music from a speaker can be.
Yamaha’s involvement and passion for music goes back more than a century to when we built our first reed organ in 1887. Now we are the world’s leading producer of pianos and other musical instruments and are involved with music in many other ways as well. We manufacture professional recording equipment, we design concert halls and we assist artists at concerts with regards to set up and sound tuning. This knowledge and experience benefits our production of speakers in many ways. In fact, the very first speaker we made was used in a musical instrument - the Electone® electronic organ. For the Soavo series, our speaker engineers took advantage of Yamaha expertise in many areas, including woodworking, metallurgy, acoustics, sound processing and even piano tuning. But the most important factor is our commitment to maintaining an extremely high standard of sound quality that we call “Natural Sound.” You can hear it in all of our musical instruments, and now we are proud to present one of the finest examples of Natural Sound performance we have ever created: the Soavo speaker series.
Soavo-1 sets a new standard in sound excellence, delivering impressive power and dynamic range, a wide stereo image and deep bass output. This three-way, floor-standing, dual-woofer speaker system achieves superb clarity from extremely low to high levels, and a full, spacious sound. With the Soavo-1 gracing your home, you will appreciate the fine qualities of your music as never before.
Since you are interested in the Soavo speakers, you undoubtedly enjoy the finest music in your home. Naturally, you want your entire decor to be beautiful also. To ensure that the Soavo speakers are visually as well as aurally beautiful, Yamaha commissioned the world-famous designer Toshiyuki Kita to create uniquely attractive speakers that will enhance the atmosphere of any interior.
In order to achieve the most natural music reproduction, the Soavo design team spent five years of research, planning and development. They created a unique cabinet design, which is shaped and reinforced for optimum music reproduction. They also used the expertise of Yamaha woodcraftsmen who produce our grand pianos, selected acoustically excellent wood, and gave it a high quality piano-type finish. Every material and design aspect was carefully considered, even down to the feet. The result is beautiful speakers that bring forth out the full potential of the music.

DRIVERS
ADVANCED PMD WOOFER AND MIDRANGE CONES
In order to provide very fast attack time(sound rise and fall), as well as excellent midrange clarity and bass response, Yamaha developed Advanced PMD (Advanced Polymer-injected Mica Diaphragm) cones that are extremely light, rigid and sturdy. They employ a low specific gravity material called PMP(Poly-Methyl-Pentene) that is much lighter than either paper or polypropylene. Precisely determined amounts of mica and talc are added, which testing has proved contribute to the beautiful quality of sounds in the vocal range. These drivers’ internal loss characteristics decrease unwanted resonances to achieve the smooth frequency response that results in natural sounding vocals. The midrange driver creates a feeling of presence as if someone is actually singing in the room, while the dual woofer design delivers deep and tight bass.
ALUMINIUM DOME, DC-DIAPHRAGM™ TWEETER
The high-performance 1” (3cm) aluminium dome tweeter delivers crisp and clear highs at all power levels. It employs a fully integrated diaphragm/voice coil structure called the DC-Diaphragm that eliminates extraneous materials for a cleaner sound. It is extremely light yet durable, and for a small unit transmits an extremely large amount of detailed sound information, resulting in a denser sound field.
TWEETER PLATE
A diecast aluminium tweeter plate isolates the tweeter from cabinet vibration and provides a solid attachment for the tweeter unit, so the high range sound is clear and transparent, with no colouration.
ALL PARTS SELECTED FOR THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE PERFORMANCE
The edgewise-wound ribbon wire voice coil contributes to high resolution, exceptional sound detail and excellent imaging. The spider is a high performance model made by Kurt Müller of Germany. Diecast aluminium baskets ensure solid support for high stiffness, improving sound image localization and depth reproduction. The midrange driver is powered by a newly designed, compact and powerful neodymium magnet.
CARVED WOODEN PORT
Each port is carved from carefully chosen, high quality wood. The port has very thick and rigid walls and a flared shape, ensuring a smooth sound flow that contributes to bass sound with a more spacious and massive feel.
Yamaha developed the Soavo speakers to provide extraordinarily realistic music reproduction. We accomplished this through a combination of advanced speaker engineering, use of the absolute best parts and materials available, and an innovative cabinet design.
INNOVATIVE CABINET DESIGN
One of the keys to Soavo’s ability to deliver Natural Sound music reproduction is the cabinet design. While maximizing sound clarity and imaging, the designers strived to drastically reduce internal standing waves and produce an expansive sound with an exceptional feeling of depth. Their solution was to create a cabinet with non-parallel sides, divide the woofer and midrange sections by a slanted partition, and strengthen the interior with large, vertical ladder-type bracing.
THREE-WAY MITRED-JOINT CONSTRUCTION FOR A RIGID BODY
Yamaha’s excellence in woodworking is used to good advantage in the three-way mitred construction of the cabinet joints. This technique ensures extremely tight joints so the entire cabinet behaves as a single unit, providing tight bass reproduction.
DIECAST ALUMINIUM STANDS
The Soavo-1 is equipped with diecast aluminium stands that provide the necessary solid floor contact for tighter bass and increased stability.
INDEPENDENT DIRECT CROSSOVER CONNECTIONS
Yamaha’s total commitment to achieving rich and vivid sound is seen in the design of the Soavo networks. They use the highest quality parts, including Solen metalized polypropylene capacitors of France and large hollow centre coils with carefully selected wire. Furthermore, rather than using printed circuit boards, each connection is individually soldered on a thick wooden board, providing larger, shorter signal paths for maximum sound quality.

Type: 3-way bass reflex floor standing speaker system
Drivers: Dual 160 mm cone woofer; 130 mm cone midrange; 30 mm aluminium dome tweeter
Impedance: 6 Ω
Frequency Response: 35 Hz to 50 kHz (- 10 dB) to 100 kHz (- 30 dB)
Nominal Input Power: 50 W
Maximum Input Power: 200 W
Sensitivity: 89 dB/2.83 V/m
Crossover Frequency: 500 Hz, 5 kHz
Dimensions: 349 x 1051 (H) x 349 (W) x 487 (D) mm
Weight: 27.0 kg

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