Wilson Benesch - Isobaric Speakers

Isobaric Speakers

The multi-role Tactic drive unit enabled the same driver to be used as a mid range system as well as a Clamshell orientated isobaric. isobaric Tactic. This solution has been deployed in the Bishop, Discovery and Chimera. Critics in various parts of the world have used all of these designs as Reference systems.

Following substantial further research, partly funded by D.T.I. (Department of Trade and Industry) the company recently patented a technology that goes beyond the Isobaric being able to achieve equally dynamic sound reproduction down to 18 hertz. The Torus system is a natural development of the Tactic isobaric design that sees the elimination of large driver based design solutions but this time in what is commonly known as the subwoofer. The system includes a super stiff diaphragm (capable of supporting 100,000 times its own mass) formed from three dimensionally woven carbon fibre. At its core is a solid structure that provides for push pull control of the diaphragm and serves all the key functions required including the movement and restoring forces required to generate controlled diaphragm movement. The design won "Product of the Year in the U.S. journal The Absolute Sounds" where it was hailed as a "genius design" Source: March 5th 2007 issue of The Absolute Sounds (http://www.avguide.com/review/wilson-benesch-torus-infrasonic-generator-subwoofer) Similar awards were won in Germany in 2007 in Stereoplay where it was described as "The most accurate woofer of all times" (http://www.wilson-benesch.com/2006/08/torus-most-accurate-woofer-of-all.html HiFi+ and The Absolute Sounds both awarded the design Product of the Year in 2008 Source March 5th 2007 issue of The Absolute Sounds (http://www.avguide.com/review/wilson-benesch-torus-infrasonic-generator-subwoofer) and in WHAT HI FI it won an award for Technology in 2008.