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Finally, the huge 65mm voice coil has been engineered for extreme power handling and dynamic headroom. Here the diaphragm is of one-piece construction (as opposed to the more commonly found separate center-cap), which Pioneer feels adds greater rigidity while pushing resonances outside of the cone’s audible frequency range. The beryllium tweeter, however, is pure TAD, and TAD technology informs the bass cone, as well. In either case, break-up modes don’t appear until well into the ultra-sonic range. Although it’s a dead ringer for the M-1’s driver, the EX midrange cone is magnesium rather than the M-I’s far more expensive beryllium.

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With its massive internal bracing, the enclosure’s resemblance to a ship’s hull is striking.Īs with the TAD M-1, a concentric driver unifies the tweeter and midrange transducers. Weighing in at over sixty pounds, the cabinet is bolstered by multiple layers of laminated MDF, ranging in thickness from 30mm to 100mm the side panels are curvilinear to reduce internal standing waves. The baffle has a gentle curve in it, as well as a backward slope, that serves to time-align the transducers at the listening position. The $6000 S-2EX is a three-way, standmount compact in a bass-reflex enclosure.

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Andrew Jones, the chief designer of the M-1, served as sound advisor, and the EX Series also received feedback from sound engineers at London’s legendary AIR Studios. The more down-to-earth EX Series was designed and built at Pioneer’s Speaker Design Center in Paris by a team comprised of TAD and Pioneer engineers. Though TAD’s first home-audio effort, 2003’s M-1 speaker, was critically acclaimed, its $40,000 tag priced most of us out. It combines a recordingstudio ethic, rigorous construction quality, and most significantly, technology plucked directly from the playbook at Pioneer’s pro-audio “skunkworks,” the highly regarded TAD (Technical Audio Device) division. By offering qualities we typically associate with audiophile speakers as well as those from the pro-monitor world, Pioneer’s EX Series bridges the divide between two distinct listening cultures.

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