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The PSM Professional
Studio Monitor, the Super-Monitor AKA Pharaoh Saunders Monitor,
is a two-way loudspeaker that throws an incredible soundstage
and handles dynamics with ease that's on par with most floor
standing loudspeakers. It has a very neutral frequency response
over its entire operating range. And its bass extension meets
the THX standard for subwoofers.
From the dawn of the Stereophonic age, two-way monitors
have been some of the purest loudspeakers, because of their tonal
and timbral accuracy, and because of their imaging and accurate
spatial presentation. Well designed two-way monitors provide
a special window into a musical soundstage that other designs
rarely realize.
However, the magic of two-way monitors is often limited by mediocre
bass extension and constricted dynamic performance.
To solve these problems, we combine acoustic suspension and folded
eighth-wave transmission line designs into a single compact cabinet
to deliver the spatial, tonal and timbral qualities of the best
two-way minimonitors and the bass extension of floor standing
loudspeakers.
By combining a transmission line design with an acoustic suspension
line design the PSM-SE exhibits the best performance qualities
of both designs while avoiding the limitations of each. The PSM
produces bass that is more neutral, more linear and more extended.
And imaging and soundstaging are on par with the very best minimonitors.
This innovative cabinet design measures only 7.5 inches wide
by 16 inches deep by 24 inches high which allows the PSM to devliver
the best imaging, soundstaging, and bass response in the most
compact package.
No cost is spared in the design and execution of the PSM. Only
the highest quality drivers and components are used. The PSM-SE
is unshielded and uses an excellent soft dome tweeter and special
TPX woofers from SEAS of Norway. TPX, although expensive, is
one of the best sounding cone materials available. The standard
PSM uses a shielded poly cone version of the same Seas woofer
and the same tweeter.
To complerment the performance of the drivers, the highest quality
crossover components, wires, and Superior (TM) terminals are
used. Only high value film-foil capacitors, metal oxide resistors,
and air core perfect lay inductors are used in the crossovers.
For internal wiring, silver plated oxygen-free copper is used
to the tweeter and multi-strand oxygen free copper is used to
the woofers. The Superior (TM)
terminals which are among the best available.
The PSM-SE is
simply one of the best loudspeakers you will hear. |