Genesis 500
The Genesis 500
employs our newest innovations, delivering live listening levels across the
entire frequency spectrum with spatially accurate imaging, and yet, is only 44
inches tall and 11 inches wide. The cabinetry is hand crafted with compound
miters and covered in beautiful rosewood veneers and hardwoods. This
combinataion yields a visually stunning finished product. but close your eyes
so you can focus on the full impact of a symphony orchestra in your living
room.
Like all Genesis
loudspeakers, the 500's employ a dipole design (from the mid-bass couplers on
up) producing sound from both the front and the rear, one out of phase with the
other. While the advantages of dipole design are many, the two main benefits are
ease of placement in the room and more natural, spacious soun reproduction.
Dipoles achieve
their superior performance because they create a radiation pattern where the
energy emanating to the sides of the speakers is nearly non-existent. With very
little acoustical energy reaching the side walls of your living room, not only
is placement of the speakers easy but, remarkably, the listener is able to
experience the music unencumbered by the normal room interactions which plague
most other speaker systems.
The Genesis 500
loudspeakers utilize some of our newest and most sophisticated technology. Set
within each multifaceted cabinet are two 1-inch planar ribbon tweeters, one of
our newly-minted 5-inch titanium cone
midrange modules, a 6-inch aluminium cone mid-bass coupler, and three 8-inch
metal cone servo woofers driven by an integral G-SAT 500-watt servo-controlled
switching power amplifier.
As in all Genesis
loudspeakers the drives used in the 500's are custom-crafted devices designed
and tuned by Genesis engineers for transparent, and dynamic performance.
the tweeter used in
both the front and back of the Genesis 500 has been descirbed by many reviewers
in both the American and foreign audiophile press as "possibly the world's
best". It is a 1-inch planar ribbon design that is handcrafted from an
extremely thin, laminated membrane of aluminum and kapton. It measures a mere
0,0005 of an inch thick. the advantage of incorporating such an extremely thin
membrane is its low mass. the result of this design is a driver that produces a
rapid and uniform response to high frequency transients and has the speed of
the best ribbon/electrostatic designs without the characteristic distortion and
poor dispersion associated with them.
The new 5-1/2"
midrange driver is machined from pure titanium, one of the lightest and
stiffest materials known to man, its super-low mass and virtually
distortionless motor structure make it one of the best transducers ever made.
With its nearly instantaneous transient response, this titanium midrange
inspires the Genesis 500 loudspeakers to sound lifelike and effortless.
To create a
"soundbridge" between the midrange and the servo-woofer system, the
500's incorporate our world-renowned 6-1/2" aluminum cone mid-bass
coupler. Being of an extremely light and stiff design, this aluminum cone is
capable of handling the huge dynamic range demands of the system while
maintaining extremely low coloration and excellent transient response.
Servo control of the
woofers coupled with metal cone technology creates the phenomenal bass
performance of the 500's. Listening to traditional woofer systems, one could
describe the bass as "heavy, soggy or boomy" to some extent because
the woofer has high mass and therefore high inertia.
This causes poor
control and high distortion, in a servo woofer sytem, complete control of the
woofer is made possible by the addition of a motion sensor mounted directly on
the woofer itself. the resultanr decrease in distortion, greater frequency
extension and tight control yield musically accurate yet "floor
shaking" bass.
Specifications:
Frequency
Response: 22 Hz - 36,000 Hz (±3 dB)
Sensitivity: 90 dB
Impedance: 4 ohms
Crossover: 4th oreder Linkwitz Riley phase corect
Amplifier
(each): 500 watt RMS switching amplifier
Dimensions (W x H x
D): 11" x 44" x 22"
Weight: 141 lbs each