PSB Synchrony Synchrony One User Manual

PSB Synchrony
PSB is known internationally as the leader when it comes to
loudspeakers of world-standard performance and value. PSB's
credentials—35 years of experience in loudspeaker design, led by
musician-engineer Paul Barton, exploiting the unmatched acoustical
facilities of the Canadian National Research Council in both pure
research and product development—are well established. So are
its products, among knowledgeable music lovers and home theater
buffs, as the benchmarks of value and performance.
Synchrony carries these traditional PSB virtues to new heights,
with seven models developed together and tonally matched
to unprecedented precision. In doing so Synchrony yields sonic
performance that pushes the boundaries of the possible, whether
judged by way of close technical analysis or by rigorous subjective
evaluation.
Yet Synchrony delivers something more: a measure of visual
elegance and luxurious finish unprecedented in such thoroughly
engineered, advanced-performance loudspeakers. As a result, the
seven elegant, small-footprint Synchrony models integrate quietly
into today's most sophisticated listening rooms and home theaters.
PSB Synchrony Two Tower
Left to right: PSB Synchrony One Tower, Two Tower,
One B Bookshelf, Two B Bookshelf (on stand), Two C Center
Channel, One C Center Channel and Synchrony S Surround.
Synchrony's designs feature a consistent gracefulness of form that
pleases the eye, and natural, superbly finished surfaces that reward
the touch.
The Synchrony family arose from a tireless, highly focused three-
year development process. While it is human nature to fall prey
to the allure of "revolutionary" new loudspeaker designs, the PSB
way of achieving 'breakthrough' performance is less seductive:
refinement and still more refinement. The sum of hundreds of details,
some smaller, some larger, but every one important, the Synchrony
family's collective achievement is a combination of reference-grade
individual performance and perfectly matched tonalities that makes
them equally adept in stereo music systems and in a wide variety of
multi-channel arrays.
Synchrony's union of rare musicality with benchmark performance is
complemented by uncommonly space-efficient design, sophisticated,
understated appearance and a quietly luxurious finish. Together,
these make the PSB Synchrony loudspeakers uniquely able to unite
the ideals of the most critical music listener, the most challenging
home-theater buff, and the most demanding designer.
PSB Synchrony Two B Bookshelf
PSB Synchrony Technology
Woofer
The Synchrony woofers and midranges bristle with advance-
ments. Laminated cones sandwich fine-weave fiberglass
and compressed-felted fibers into a uniquely rigid, self-
damping, low-mass diaphragm for higher sensitivity and
smoothness. Oversized voice coils, and distortion-arresting
motor structures* preserve magnetic linearity at even
extreme excursions, for clarity, detail, and "drive." Carefully
engineered ventilated spiders, and rubber surrounds
contribute both error-free dynamics and longevity. The cast-
aluminum Synchrony baskets are superbly rigid, aerodynamically
"open," and magnetically inert, resulting in maximum efficiency of the
motor/magnet structure.
A B C
* Aluminum Bullet, Copper Shorted Turn, Aluminum Focus Ring
Cabinet Construction
PSB's unique construction details help
make the Synchrony family one of the
strongest, most inert, resonance-free
enclosures in the industry. Extruded-
aluminum front and back panels unite
subtly curving, seven-layered, hand-
veneered sides into an unbelievably
robust structure. Their unbroken,
diffraction-free surfaces and near-
total resistance to coloration-carrying
utterly rigid, inert working surface.
vibrations yield arresting sonic purity—
and smooth, beautiful surfaces
utterly devoid of visually intrusive
hardware. The Synchrony towers Terminal Cup
Even Synchrony's solid-metal speaker con-
use immensely complex computer
optimized box tuning and crossover nectors have been specially designed: gold-
networks. Subdivided into three plated for maximum conductivity; accepting
discrete chambers—one for each banana plugs, pins, spade-lugs, or wire
up to 10 gauge; equipped with unique,
woofer—they uniquely harness the
"floor-bounce" that plagues other ergonomically designed
floorstanding speakers to extend tightening "wings"; and of course configured
and smooth response instead of with discrete woofer/tweeter terminals for
easy bi-wiring/bi-amping.
roughening and curtailing it.
Tweeter
The titanium Synchrony tweeter, an evolution of PSB's famous 25mm metal-dome design, incorporates
more than a score of new features engineered to extend high-output, distortion-free response while
banishing the dynamic compression that limits most designs. This is achieved by a lighter, stiffer, and
Ferrofluid-cooled voice-coil, along with a computer-optimised magnetic circuit using a high-flux
neodymium magnet to maintain perfect linearity under even the highest power drive.
A
B
C
Double-locking aluminum corners bind each
Synchrony enclosure with incredible solidity
and "float" its elegant perforated alumi-
num grille — a uniquely open pattern that's
genuinely acoustically transparent. The
double-layer aluminum front baffle sand-
wiches an elastometric
layer that damps un-
wanted vibrations,
fixing the drivers in an
easily grasped