Description
Standing 56.5 inches tall and only 12 inches wide, the Genesis 450XS is presented in a
bleached American Cherry wood. The Genesis 450XS is a loudspeaker system capable of
delivering live listening levels across the entire frequency spectrum. By means of active
servo bass, response down to 22 Hz is achieved and the full range and impact of the
symphony orchestra can be reproduced.
The Genesis 450XS has four planar ribbon tweeters, three in front and one in the rear. At
the midrange, the 450XS employs two 6.5 inch, metal cone mid bass couplers that are out
of phase with each other. Also at the midrange is a 24 inch ribbon driver mounted in the
front of the cabinet. The bass frequencies are handled with two 12 inch metal cone active
drivers that are powered by a 1000 watt Genesis GSAT power amplifier that is built into
the unit.
Like all Genesis loudspeakers, the Genesis 450XS's are a dipole design producing sound
from both the front and the rear, one out of phase with the other. While the advantages of
a dipole design are many, the two main benefits are ease of placement in the room and a
greater degree of spacious natural sound reproduction.
Dipoles achieve their superior performance because they create a radiation pattern such
that the energy radiating to the sides of the speakers plane is nearly zero. So, 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 aberrations which plague most other speakers.
The 450XS's magic is in the drivers
The tweeter used in both the front and the back of the 450XS series has been described,
by many reviewers in both the American and the foreign Audiophile press, as possibly
"the world's best". It is a 1 inch planar ribbon design and is hand-crafted from an
extremely thin laminated membrane of aluminum and Kapton and measures a mere
0.0005 inch thick. The advantage of incorporating such an extremely thin membrane is
that of low mass. The result of this design is a driver that has a rapid and uniform
response to high frequency transients and has the speed of the best ribbon/electrostatic
designs without the high distortion and poor dispersion that are typical.
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Genesis 450XS System
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