PS Audio
Aspen FR30 Loudspeaker (Pair)
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$39,999.00
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Absolute Sound Magazine's Ultra High-End Loudspeaker of the year!
Our goals for the FR30 were to design and build a state-of-the-art full-range loudspeaker with extraordinarily low distortion, effortless reproduction, seamless tonality, and exquisite beauty.
Our highest expectations have been exceeded.
The Aspen FR30 represents the culmination of 50 years of industry experience; learning in intimate detail what works and what does not; what it takes for a loudspeaker to disappear and leave only the magic of the music; designing a no-compromise phase-correct crossover; constructing a cabinet that does not color the sound; crafting a near-flat impedance curve for driving the speakers with any power amplifier, and when not even the most advanced driver manufacturer's products are good enough to meet our exacting standards, designing woofers, radiators, tweeters, and midranges from scratch. In all respects, the FR30 will transcend your expectations of what it means to be called a reference loudspeaker.
No longer do you have to compromise.
Breathtaking to listen to, beautiful to behold. The Aspen FR30.
Our highest expectations have been exceeded.
The Aspen FR30 represents the culmination of 50 years of industry experience; learning in intimate detail what works and what does not; what it takes for a loudspeaker to disappear and leave only the magic of the music; designing a no-compromise phase-correct crossover; constructing a cabinet that does not color the sound; crafting a near-flat impedance curve for driving the speakers with any power amplifier, and when not even the most advanced driver manufacturer's products are good enough to meet our exacting standards, designing woofers, radiators, tweeters, and midranges from scratch. In all respects, the FR30 will transcend your expectations of what it means to be called a reference loudspeaker.
No longer do you have to compromise.
Breathtaking to listen to, beautiful to behold. The Aspen FR30.
By far the most important piece in the HiFi chain is the loudspeaker. If the speaker cannot reproduce what's it is fed from the electronic chain, the missing musical information is forever lost. To achieve all that music demands, over the years loudspeaker designers have tried to leverage every trick in the book: electrostats for details, conventional drivers for dynamics, planars for transparency, ribbons, domes, horns, open baffles, bipoles, dipoles. The list is endless and the choices and their inevitable sonic compromises daunting. With close to 50 years under our collective belts, we at PS Audio determined to design the perfect loudspeaker. Our strategy would be to combine the best of all possible driver and crossover technologies in a single coherent design. We would call it the FR30. It would have unquestioned dynamics. It would be full range and capable of being driven by just about any amplifier. Its high-frequency drivers would have lower mass than the air they were driving and the speed and clarity of the best electrostats. Its midrange driver would be so transparent and uncolored as to be unnoticeable. And our FR30 would never be shy when it came to the low end. With 8 woofers supported by 8 high compliance passive radiators, in-room bass response would be nothing short of legendary.
Features
-Full Range 3-way system
-88dB Sensitivity
-Two 2.5' Planar ribbon tweeters
-10' Planar ribbon midrange
-Four 8' low distortion high excursion woofers
-Four 10' low distortion high excursion bass radiators
-Rear tweeter level control
-Baffle step adjustment for best speaker placement
-Flat impedance curve for eary amplifier load
-Smooth and full off axis response
-In-room bass response to 20hz @ -6db
-Two piece cabinet for easy setup
-Adjustable feet
-Easy position for best performance
-Heavy internal bracing for low cabinet vibration
-Custom film capacitors & premium air-core inductors
Specifications - Aspen FR30 Loudspeaker
| Color Options | Pearl White, Sable Black |
| Enclosure Type | Two piece – Sealed upper cabinet mid-tweeter module, Passive radiator lower cabinet (4 10” side-firing passive radiators) |
| High Frequency Transducer | 2 x 2.5” planar magnetic with Teonex diaphragm |
| Mid Frequency Transducer | 10” planar magnetic with Teonex diaphragm |
| Low Frequency Transducer | 4 x 8” woofers, cast frame, aluminum cone, 12lb advanced magnet structure |
| Crossover Frequency | 400 Hz, 2500 Hz – LR4 |
| Sensitivity (2.83V @ 1M) | 88 dB |
| Nominal Impedance | 4 ohm (3.6 ohm minimum impedance) |
| Recommended Amplifier Power | 100-600W |
| Frequency Response | 23Hz-20kHz (-6dB) half space, 20 Hz (-6dB) in-room |
| Dimensions (HxWxD) | 60.5” x 16” x 25.75” with base (10” width not including base) |
| Net Weight | 230 lbs (104.5 kg) |