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If you have seen the other review, you will know that this driver has a larger than one inch voice coil, 35mm in fact and the neodymium magnet motor is a cylinder shape inside this coil. But as you can see from the video and pictures below, this X-S65C bass speaker only has a petite behind. The motive force, the shove, the push, the in and outness always comes from the big magnet on the back of a midbass driver. That is merely a posh way of saying it is really, really wobbly and goes in and out a long way. It is elegantly constructed and amounts to a midbass cone of very high compliance. The idea is that as well as an overall large arch of compliant material, that arch is itself comprised of five smaller waves. I have seen this approach used with subwoofers but never a midbass driver before. For one, this lovely cone material has a very special top suspension called HAMR for High Amplitude Multi Roll surround. And those nano-fibres are still only a small part of the story of the truly ridiculous bass and low mid band that these speakers can make.
Alpine s s65c installation drivers#
You need midbass drivers capable of keeping up.
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Yet a brace of HF drivers doth not a sound stage make. I waited until after I had heard them to ask, to avoid bias, but they are amazing. I now have some insider account of the first time a senior set of ears at Alpine UK heard these tweeters. And in this case, we have nano-fibres in the cone material to add stiffness and negate any resonances in the cone, as well as this crazy carbon graphite dome. Speakers have always been about the science of stuff. One is about established facts that have been published and are verifiable and accepted by the scientific community and the other is the science of stuff.
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The same cretinous sub editor who changed my very first ever piece of paid for copy, from ‘Planet Zog’ to ‘planet earth’ in my referencing the rock and pop stars who might use a rock bus with sound system on it, also failed to know the difference between ‘˜material science’ and materials science. They can also produce a vigorous sound pressure level, even whilst remaining refined, delicate and uncongested. It can play the breathy throaty rasp of Lorde as she sings Royals as well as give you all the definition an acoustic guitarist’s fingernails put on a recording. This means a tweeter capable of incredible feats of derring-do. This tweeter is a hard dome made of carbon graphite and so unbelievably rigid that it can be accelerated fast enough to play to 40,000 cycles a second – 40kHz. The second of the three products in the new X-Series loudspeaker range, before the new woofers, the Alpine X-S65C (C for ‘˜components’) are effectively the same transducers as in the X-S65 coaxial speakers, but with a passive crossover in a little box on the way to the separately supplied tweeter. If you’re reading this review, you may well have seen my coverage of this same set of loudspeakers, assembled as a coaxial, for £100 less, the X-S65. The only other choices at this level are about differences in taste, like say Ferrari versus Lamborghini.Īn absolute Best Buy (for audiophile power nutters) within Talk Stuff’s audio genreĮditor Review : Alpine X-S65C 6.5in Component Speakers Alpine X-S65C scores a Best Buy but does suffer a single point loss on VFM, for being just under half a grand, or nine times-plus the price of a set of hole fillers. The sheer size and scale of the output is a bit boggling, as the new magnet system works very well with the special cone suspension, adding up to a state of the art slice of tech. Very much in the direction of Japanese top end hi-fi, exhibiting incredible definition and clarity.
Alpine s s65c installation full#
Absurdly full range performance, with soaring highs, rich textured bass of improbable capability and a sound stage that you can enter car audio competitions with.