Description
Aurora 2 & 3
These potent performers are floor-standing loudspeakers that can be used as dedicated stereo loudspeakers or home theatre mains/ rears.
The Aurora 2 and Aurora 3 features:
- High quality Kevlar drivers and 25mm textile dome tweeter with a critically damped chamber.
- Crossovers utilize air core inductors, audiophile grade metallised polypropylene SCR capacitors.
- Crossovers are optimised for uniform frequency, accurate phase transition and minimum distortion.
- Custom-designed PCBs employing short path copper tracks (twice standard thickness).
- Cabinets are constructed to the highest standards – high structural integrity, low cabinet resonance.
- All cabinets are crafted in selected real timber veneers (mahogany, cherry, black oak).
Technically Advanced Design:
- Acoustically Aligned Drive Units – The theoretical ideal speaker is a point source. Orpheus has emulated a point source by placing the drive units in intimate proximity and electrically removing mid-range information from the lower bass driver, vastly improving driver integration and musical cohesion.
- 2½ Way Crossover – This can be understood as a conventional two driver, 2-way design with an additional drive unit used for bass augmentation. The lower bass drive fulfils this role of bass augmentation (which compensates accurately for cabinet diffraction loss) without detrimental effect on midrange sound staging, imaging and focus. The top bass driver has intimate positioning with the tweeter, thereby approximating the ideal point source of sound, making the individual drive units almost meld into one driver, greatly enhancing imaging, integration and a palpable sense of ‘being there’.
- Differential Bass Loading (DBL) – Developed by Orpheus, the DBL technique uses two reflex-loaded bass chambers of dissimilar volumes, critically tuned to reduce impedance deviation through the bass region. This means an easier power load for the amplifier resulting in greater headroom, improved transient response and extended dynamics. DBL loudspeakers exhibit greater bass extension and better group delay (transient response/speed) than a traditional reflex (ported) design of the same size. The scale, weight and punch of bass reproduction, achieved at no detriment to speed, accuracy and timing, is nothing short of astounding, belying the modest proportions of the enclosures.
- Asymmetric Tweeter Positioning – Strategically positioning the tweeter asymmetrically on the baffle greatly reduces the effect the baffle has on the output response. This leads to a much smoother high frequency response. As a result the treble is sweeter; the sound stage is open, wide and airy. The focus and imaging of the loudspeakers feels completely natural and relaxed.
How do they Sound?
The floor standing Aurora’s are characterized by a truly wide, 3-dimensional sound stage with pinpoint imaging that captures the ambience of the recording space. The speakers exhibit a highly accurate midrange and treble response. This is combined with a truly extended bass end, with weight, punch and timing that is surprising in enclosures of this size and price.
Aurora 0.5 & 1
These potent performers are compact 5″ two-way loudspeakers (the A .5 is a smaller sealed box version of the ported A1) that can be used in stand or wall mount situations and as stereo main loudspeakers or home theatre rears.
The Aurora1 and Aurora .5 feature:
- High quality Kevlar drivers and 25mm textile dome tweeter with a critically damped chamber.
- Crossovers utilise air core inductors, audiophile grade metallised polypropylene SCR capacitors.
- 1st order linear phase crossover is optimised for uniform frequency, accurate phase transition and minimum distortion.
- Asymmetric tweeter positioning (on A1) for wider sound stage and smoother high frequency response.
- Cabinets are constructed to the highest standards – high structural integrity, low cabinet resonance.
- All cabinets are crafted in selected real timber veneer (mahogany, cherry, black oak).
How do they Sound?
The compact Auroras are characterized by a truly wide, 3-dimensional sound stage with pinpoint imaging that captures the ambience of the recording space. The speakers exhibit a highly accurate midrange and treble response. This is combined with an extended bass end, with weight, punch and timing that is surprising in enclosures of this size and price.
The Emotion Quotient.
The most vital ingredient of the design recipe is technically difficult to quantify. It is that intangible quality that seems to draw you into the music. We call it the “Emotion Quotient”. This is the loudspeaker designer’s ability to engage the listener to the musical event. So you don’t just hear the sound, you respond to it emotionally. This is profoundly enjoyable. Our design philosophy is about how music can make us all feel. The proof is in the listening!
What Does it all Mean?
The technical elements outlined above mean that the compact Auroras offer exceptional value. They compete successfully in terms of features and performance with often larger significantly more expensive speakers from other manufacturers. Put simply it means you get a lot of musical pleasure for your money.
