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Fyne Audio
F1
Series
De Fyne Audio F1 Serie staat voor de
essentie van de geaccumuleerde kennis van de
heren achter dit Schotse merk. Kennis op het
gebied van luisteren, kennis op het gebied van
materialen en kennis op het gebied van bouwen.
Van luidsprekers en geassocieerde zaken
welteverstaan. Deze serie luidsprekers is
volledig bedacht en gemaakt zonder ook maar één
compromis te sluiten. State-of-the-art
onderdelen die laten horen waartoe een
point-source bron echt in staat is. Ontworpen,
gemaakt, afgewerkt en getest door echte mensen.
Door noeste handarbeid tot stand gekomen in het
hoofdkwartier van Fyne Audio nabij Glasgow. Het
schoolvoorbeeld van het immer geroemde en
supermuzikale Engelse geluid. Het unieke ontwerp
vormt samen met de innovatieve lijst van
kenmerken een serie waarvan er geen tweede te
vinden is. Van de massieve, metalen plinten tot
de minutieus ingelegde walnoten behuizing wordt
gelijk duidelijk dat niet alleen op het gebied
van audioprestaties, maar ook op het gebied van
esthetiek het volmaakte is nagestreefd. Als
thuishaven van bijna alle Fyne Audio patenten,
behelzen de specificaties van de F1 Serie de top
van hun IsoFlare™ point source units, dubbele
afgestemde baspoorten in een ontkoppelde
reflexkamer in combinatie met hun BassTrax™
Reference module en cryogeen behandelde
crossovers.
De F1 Serie bestaat uit:
Het topmodel F1.12S, gevolgd door een tweede
vloerstaande luidspreker uit de serie, de
F1.10S. De boekenplankmodellen, ofwel monitor
luidsprekers, F1.8 en F1.5 complementeren de F1
Serie.
Meet the F1
Series
The F1 Series represents the pinnacle of
Fyne Audio’s long-standing audio experience and
engineering expertise in the Hi-Fi industry.
From the exsquisite F1-5 bookshelf to the
imposing F1-12S, this no-compromise series of
high-end transducers hone cutting edge point
source loudspeaker technology to define what is
currently possible. Designed, manufactured, hand
finished and tested at Fyne’s HQ and
manufacturing facility in Glasgow, the F1 Series
represents state of the art UK loudspeaker
design.
The truly unique design and innovative feature
list is second to none. From the massive
machined metal plinths to the intricate burr
walnut inlay on the front and top of the wood
finished cabinets, every element of F1 speakers
has been meticulously considered to ensure
stunning audio performance and exquisite
aesthetic appeal for the audiophile.
Bristling with many of Fyne Audio’s patented
technologies, the no-compromise F1 specification
includes top of the range IsoFlare point source
drivers featuring FyneFlute rubber surround,
twin cavity reflex loading and Fyne’s signature
BassTrax Tractrix profile LF diffuser system.
The heavyweight machined aluminium plinth
provides exceptional stability for the high
density pressed birch plywood cabinet, which is
extensively braced and finished to bespoke
furniture standard throughout.
IsoFlare Point
Source Driver
Fyne Audio’s signature IsoFlare driver is a
point source system whereby the bass/midrange
driver shares a common centre with the high
frequency unit. Providing outstanding stereo
imaging even off axis, energy is radiated
isotropically with constant directivity
following the flare of the driver cone. Sound is
produced from a single point, giving truly
spherical and time-aligned wave front. This
preserves the harmonic structure of complex
instruments and vocals, recreating the true
acoustic sound field from a loudspeaker that is
far less dependent on room location.
For the flagship F1 series IsoFlare drivers, the
high frequency unit features a highly rigid 3”
titanium HF diaphragm for smooth and unstressed
performance, with a massive Neodymium magnet
incorporating a vented rear chamber to place low
frequency resonance well below the crossover
region. This enables a very low 750Hz crossover
point for the most realistic rendition of vocals.
The HF driver uses a high power handling edge
wound aluminium voice coil on a Kapton former
with pure copper shorting ring for lowest
distortion. It’s unique IsoFlare annular
waveguide has computer optimised geometry to
provide linear expansion into the room for the
smoothest frequency response.
On the low frequency section, a multi-fibre
paper cone gives natural sounding midrange and
extremely clean transient behaviour even at
concert realistic SPLs. The twin roll fabric
cone surround (floorstanding models) and
FyneFlute surround (standmount models)
effectively terminates cone energy without
time-smearing, remaining cohesively integrated
to the HF driver irrespective of listening
volume. The high power LF motor system uses a
giant ferrite magnet with rectangular copper
voice coil on aluminium former for class leading
power handling. The complete F1 series IsoFlare
driver is built into a rigid cast aluminium
chassis to eliminate unwanted vibrations and
coupled to the cabinet’s internal bracing spars
through a semi compliant bonding material for
exceptional damping at the driver/cabinet
interface.
BassTrax
Tractrix Diffuser System
TThe F1 series boasts Fyne Audio’s ultimate
iteration of the patent pending BassTrax
Tractrix profile LF diffuser system. This
complex yet refined approach to bass loading and
reflex porting incorporates a twin cavity
cabinet design with a tuned waveguide port
firing downwards from the reinforced lower panel
of the cabinet. This loading technique broadens
the tuning frequency to reduce cone excursion
and acts as a damping system that blocks
potential standing wave resonances produced by
the main internal port between cavities.
The lower cavity bass port vents downwards onto
the BassTrax Tractrix profile diffuser. The
unique, mathematically derived tractrix profile
maintains a true 90 degree angle at each
intersection of the expanding wavefront, so
converts plain wave LF energy into a
horizontally expanding spherical 360-degree
wavefront with no loss of total energy. The
result is seamlessly uniform LF integration into
the room and a loudspeaker that is far less
critical of room positioning.
Tractrix profile wave-guides were originally
applied to horn loudspeakers by Voight in the
1920’s but the application to an LF diffuser of
this type is unique to Fyne Audio.
Crossover
The F1 series crossover is a no-compromise
design, hand built onto vibration damping
fibreboard panels using the world’s finest
electronic components and cables and fine tuned
to deliver truly class-leading performance.
Leaning on decades of premium loudspeaker design
experience, the design team refined the
component list through finite element analysis,
computer modelling, measurement and critical
auditioning by Fyne’s top engineering and
acoustic personnel.
The component roster includes low loss LF
laminated core inductors, non-inductive thick
film resistors and Claritycap’s highest grade HF
polypropylene capacitors. Neotech ™ PC-OCC
internal wiring provides highly transparent
signal transfer, connecting to the loudspeaker
cable through WBT Nextgen™ gold plated bi-wire
terminals. Once fully assembled and tested,
every F1 crossover is Deep Cryogenically Treated.
This super freezing and slow thawing process
relieves microstresses in components, wiring and
solder joints, maximising signal transfer and
delivering greater transparency to the sound.
Further F1 series refinements include a fifth
earth terminal that grounds the driver chassis
to prevent radio frequency interference effects
from masking fine detail. For seamless room
integration, HF output controls are available on
the front baffle of F1 series models, offering
user adjustment of high frequency energy and
presence.
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