Two Potent New Speakers Complete PSB Image Series

Acclaimed Speaker Family Gets Further Boost With High-Performance Powered-Bass Tower And Bipole Surround System

27-Sep-00

PSB Speakers, Canadian maker of high-performance speaker systems, is filling out its pathbreaking Image Series with the Image 7PT, an important new tower system featuring a powered woofer, and with the Image 10S, an innovative surround speaker that provides bipolar radiation for convincing surround envelopment. The company expects the two new speakers to supply added fuel to the popularity of the Image Series, which has been as high-performing in the marketplace as in listenersí homes.According to PSB founder and Chief Designer Paul Barton, the new Images are the final pieces in a very striking mosaic. ""The point of the Image Series,"" Barton says, ""is to combine the latest in driver design and radically new modular construction techniques to supply astounding performance-per-dollar. And now we complete the picture with a bass-powered tower that just blows you away at the bottom end, and with a bipolar surround model that gives all the benefit of diffuse-field surround sound with none of the placement problems that sometimes occur with dipoles.""Both of the new Image models use the high-definition Image 1-inch aluminum-dome tweeter. The Image 10S surround model uses two baffle arrays of this tweeter with a 5 1/4-inch polypropylene-cone, rubber-surround woofer. The drivers on each array are positioned 45 degrees off axis, 90 degrees between them. The Image 10S enclosure measures 12 1/2 x 12 7/8 x 7 inches and backs conveniently against a side or back wall. The Image 7PT combines the Image tweeter with three 6 1/2-inch polypropylene-cone, rubber-surround drivers, two of which are powered by an internal amplifier delivering 130 watts continuous power. These powered woofers are located within their own sub-enclosure within the 7PTís cabinet, which measures 8 x 39 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches. The enclosures for both models come in black ash or cherry finish.Barton points out that the Image 10S combines the best of both worlds in surround-speaker design. ""What our bipolar radiation design gives the listener,"" he says, ""is a combination of the diffusion needed for realistic surround ambience and the range and power needed for todayís wide-range DolbyÆ Digital soundtracks. You get mainly non-localized ambience, but with the clear spatial clues that are sometimes needed for directional effects, especially with some 5.1 music recordings. And speaker placement is far less fussy than with dipole designs."" ""As for the Image 7PT,"" Barton continues, ""one would be hard-pressed at any price in speakers to exceed the sheer impact this system delivers. It has the precise imaging, the open, airy high end, and the sweet midrange on which the Image reputation has been built, and it combines those qualities with a tremendous bass wallop. This speaker goes really deep into the bottom-bass region, and delivers sound at any listening level thatís powerful, fast, and accurate. I think itís up to absolutely any challenge that todayís musical recordings and DVD movies offer.""PSB began shipping the Image 10S in September, with a suggested retail price of $649/pair. The Image 7PT is due to start shipping in October, at a suggested price of $1,449/pair.For more information, visit www.psbspeakers.com

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