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Concept: Ozone / VMPS Europe, Croatia, 01/2005. info@vmpseurope.com

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If you dont serve to the music while designing loudspeakers, your loudspeaker cannot succeed, meaning it will not make a communication from a good source to the listener. And you should never rely on a fantasy that you can use some trickery and somehow implement an emotion of some music instrument, or nostalgic golden era feeling into your design. There are no such things. If emotions exist anywhere in reproduction chain, musicians and producer took care of them. However, in the neverending quest for this emotion, one can use the means of human perception, the knowledge, and technology. VMPS is at todays cutting edge. Occasionally we made that very edge even sharper. Theres no complicated philosophy - good loudspeaker must faithfully reproduce entire audio spectrum and be able to fully adapt to associated equipment and given environment. Our concept is successful for 25 years, our drivers the best (and most expensive to manufacture), cabinetry and bass system unique and of unsurpassed quality. Crossovers are executed from the best available, custom parts to a precision of 1/2000% - every one hand made and tested to exact values by VMPS designer Brian Cheney himself.

Through all of our history we knew that if technology advances, we as a manufacturer need to adapt. Costs were never a consideration if certain solution sounded the best. Through our history we managed to create nest loudspeakers at prices many times lower than those of our competitors. We make the most of our technology completely in the house, a great part of it is unique, with every part being custom made and every loudspeaker hand assembled and individually tested & burned in.

VMPS RM/X Elixir

Dimensions: 198x32x51cm (HxWxD), 168kg Controls: Mid, treble, adjustable passive radiator Impedance: 4 Ohms (3.6 Ohms minimum) Power handling: 500W rms, 20W min, 118dB/1m SPL for 5% THD Frequency Response: +0, -3dB 20Hz-25kHz Drivers: 25 & 30cm bass, 30cm PR, 6x Neo midrange panel, FS tweeter

Ribbon Monitors
In my judgment however, the real hero of this endeavor is Brian Cheney. Last year at CES, at one of our dinners, I sketched out a complete set of drawings (on my favorite napkins of course) for this new speaker. I told Brian that THIS is what he should develop for the following year. Not only did he break the bank with this eort, his brilliance has created without any shadow of a doubt, the nest loudspeaker that has ever been created. Brian surely deserves the credit for being the absolute most brilliant loudspeaker designer on the planet. I can just see all the crocodile tears from all the others. BOO HOO. You may have to get in a long line as his entire rst production run was sold out. If you want Nirvana folks, three of these ELIXIR loudspeakers in my Trinaural setup will surely send you there. - James Bongiorno of Spread Spectrum Technologies (Ampzilla 2000, Trinaural), award winner of Best of CES in high-end audio at 2003 CES, Las Vegas. RM/X is indeed a signicant step forward in loudspeaker design. Heres a brief list of its unique features; Permit user adjustment of treble angle of incidence in the vertical plane, so that any listening position in a given room is covered ideally. The RM/X utilizes a tweeter pod with a 45 degree downward arc any part of which can be set by the listener for the desired coverage. While the cabinet shape was the long-festering
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brainchild of industry veteran James Bongiorno, it could not have been built without the specialized equipment and 3 dimensional custom design software of Dorn Dibble in El Sobrante. Eliminate the horizontal diraction path for mids and trebles. The poor vertical dispersion of long ribbon panels takes care of the interference and lobing in the vertical plane. This feature is the enormous credit of Jim Bongiornos concept, which took heroic eort to turn into reality. Solve the problem of common room modes. There are sidering, bottom ring and front ring woofers on the RM/X which means 3 dierent bass path lengths into the room, confounding the resonances typically found in rectangular rooms. Even if you listen in a cube youll be helped. Oer solidity and rigidity like no other enclosure. In order to eliminate horizontal diraction the front bae starts out as a 14cm thick billet of HDF, which is cut away by the CNC ball mill on either side to a depth of 10cm, leaving nothing but air on either side of the ribbon array. The tweeter pod is not only directable but uniquely shaped to prevent diraction. It is elevated completely free of the main cabinet. While on some other loudspeaker designs an hourglass shape for the cabinet does reduce the diraction path length in the horizontal plane, it wouldnt help the problem of poor vertical dispersion typical of ribbons.

The RM/X takes an entirely dierent approach, eliminating horizontal diraction entirely while providing ideal vertical dispersion for tweeters and mids. The FS tweeter is only 1cm wide, which means horizontal dispersion is excellent up to 25kHz. Sweet spot city for any listener, standing, sitting, or laying down! (Unless youre over 195cm tall and walk around constantly, of course). The RM/X was a rst to utilize a new highly advanced tweeter, a 1cm wide x 5cm long free-swinging true ribbon with 96dB sensitivity. Moving mass of the tweeter is 13 milligrams, response is -3dB at 40 kHz, and the sound is the sweetest weve heard. Due to its outstanding low frequency response the new tweeter will cross over in the 7 kHz range. Mated to the RM/Xs 94 dB midrange section you should get by on 15W of tube for the mid/treble, plus solid state amplier for bass. This new tweeter is now also available in all our ribbon speakers at additional cost. The cabinet of a standard model is an automotive quality deep gloss black lacquer nish, courtesy of Dorn Dibbles shop. It takes three days to apply two coats of primer, two of lacquer, and one of clear overgloss with hand sanding in-between. There is no better nish at any price. All wood nishes are optional, all nishes including the piano black are modeled on the under glass look of the best Italian furniture.
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Ribbon Monitor 2 FST

Bass: 30cm woven carbon ber Megawoofer, 30cm PR Midrange: dual 20cm Neo ribbons, 166Hz cuto Treble: FS tweeter, 7kHz to 40kHz Impedance & Sensitivity: 4 Ohm (3.6min.) 91dB/1W/1m Power handling: 350W rms /4 Ohms, 20Wmin Frequency response: 22Hz-25kHz +0/-3dB Dimensions & Weight: 114Hx38Wx41Dcm, 59kg

If there has ever been a Holy Grail of speaker design, it is the push-pull, transformerless, high impedance, unobstructed, high output, high power handling 500Hz or lower short ribbon midrange suitable for 3 way systems. If that seems like a lot of adjectives and qualiers, let us explain. Since various kinds of ribbons have appeared in high-end speakers over the years the consumer best inform himself about various design options. The most popular brand of ribbon speakers in the past decade are not ribbons at all, but singleended planar dynamic woofer/midranges mated to transformer-operated ribbon tweeters. Singleended (magnets on one side, usually the back) planars have very high THD, often 30% or more. We nd their sound quality poor because their waveform delity is so poor. Thus the importance of the aforementioned push-pull characteristic, i.e. magnets on either side with equal propulsive force in both directions. Since ribbons tend toward low impedance they have almost always appeared in tandem with transformers, which dull and distort their sound. VMPS Neo panels measure between 3.6 and 5.0 Ohms resistive, no transformer necessary. As for output levels, sensitivity and power handling, our panels excel in all three areas, thanks to improved technology, and the magnet structure does not impede the sound output. VMPS Ribbon Monitors are about more than just midrange, although the low, low moving mass (about the same as the air they displace) and at frequency response of our panels (within 1dB from 166Hz to 10kHz) make for fabulous,
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state-of-the art middle frequency reproduction. Ribbon panels are mated to the latest lowmass true-ribbon or spiral ribbon tweeter, good to 30kHz, and boasts woven carbon bre bass drivers pushing a slot loaded passive radiator from 14Hz up to 32Hz cuto (depending on model) at levels above 112dB/1m SPL. The quality of sound over the full frequency spectrum is unsurpassed, a giant leap forward over dynamic competitors. Note that any moving-coil driver is most often burdened with 100 times the moving mass of our ribbons. The result: high inertia, sluggish transients, and compromised transparency and denition regardless of cone composition. It can be stated without hyperbole that even the costliest cone midranges and dome tweeters are today obsolete, rendered virtually irrelevant to audiophiles who seek the best sound for the money spent. In fact, typical cone midranges and dome tweeters should now only be considered at the entry level or for home theater/sound eects applications. Relics of a bygone era, cone mids and domes tweeters are as irrelevent to todays High End standard as the 10g-tracking ceramic phono cartridge. No matter if your tastes run to high-end Music or Home Theater, once you have heard the sheer responsiveness and velocity of our unique handbuilt woofers, exclusive high eciency Neo ribbon midranges and spiral ribbon tweeters, you wont want to go back to dynamic speakers, including those six-gure prestige systems so beloved of some high-end critics.

With the VMPS Ribbon Monitor 40 we set a new standard for quality, value, and the latest technology wrapped into one slim, elegant package. This 109kg, 168cm tall oorstanding speaker boasts the 25cm Woven Carbon Fiber Megawoofer lowbass and 25cm WCF midbass from our acclaimed FF3 SRE in a symmetrical array with four 20cm Neodymium midrange ribbon panels (166Hz to 10 kHz) and two 25mm spiral ribbon tweeters (or one FST) in a column only 32cm wide and 43cm deep. Thin dimensions and full driver symmetry guarantee pinpoint imaging and a soundstage both wide and deep, with layering and detail that is simply breathtaking. Cabinetry is 38mm thick MDF baes (plus 28mm sides and top) treated with Soundcoat for 10dB less panel vibration from 200Hz up. The result is 24Hz bass with ultraclean 115dB/1m output levels at an unprecedented low price for such achievement. The RM 40 was the centerpiece of our 2002 CES demonstration room which won Best of CES from TechTV, the media arm of the Electronics Industry Association, host of the Show. The RM 40 won as best High End Audio product in a eld of 261 exhibitors (of all High End products, not just speakers, although our competitors in that regard all ran 5 to 20 times our price) with 35 total products nominated. A eld of 26 judges canvassed the Show for winners, giving VMPS the nod in High End Audio. Inspite of sti competition the nal vote was unanimous for the RM40 as Best Product.

Ribbon Monitor 40
Bass: 25cm WCF Megawoofer bass, 25cm WCF midbass, 25cm Passive Radiator Mid: four 20cm Neo ribbons, 166Hz (-3dB) Treble: two spiral ribbon tweeter, 10kHz - 30kHz Impedance & Sensitivity: 4 Ohm (3.6min.) 90dB/1W/1m Power handling: 500W rms /4 Ohms, 20Wmin Frequency response: 24Hz-25kHz +0/-3dB Dimensions & Weight: 168Hx32Wx43Dcm, 109kg Output levels and distortion: max. 1%THD fullrange/1W, max. 115+dB SPL/1m

39Hz from the four 16cm graphite woofers. The M version should cut o around 28Hz. The RM 30 uses three 2.4 Ohm midrange panels wired in series. The FST is at the top of the column. The C version is a true line source, the M series is a slight departure with its side-ring woofer. The RM 30 cabinet is made by Bud Bailey at VIP Woodworks in Apple Valley CA. The active 16cm is a specially developed Graphite cone and an upgrade WCF 16cm Megawoofer is also available. They oer higher power handling, cleaner sound and have the ability of not bottoming out no matter how hard they are driven. VMPS RM30C & M Versions It answers the requests from audiophiles since early 2002 for a speaker priced between, & more attractive than the RM2 & RM40. Its premium blending of price, performance, exibility, & cosmetic beauty promises more than anything currently available. The RM 30 is a speaker that can match the dynamic capabilities of competent horns, the immediacy of electrostatics and planar-magnetics, and the ne detailing and imaging of the best dynamic designs. - Positive Feedback All nish and other options are available on the RM 30. It is 50cm deep, but can be placed directly against a back wall if needed. The FST, Soundcoat and 10 Megawoofer are all standard. M and C versions are exactly the same except for the Ms sidering woofers. The large cabinet of the C version provides good quality bass at to
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Performance: maximum output just below the RM40 combined with new reference in staging, imaging, musicality, neareld listening, & disappearing qualities. Flexibility: standard C model has bass extension in the high 30s. The M version extends to the high 20s & has a feature to minimize bass modes. New carbon diaphragms w/more punch & impact vs. the earlier carbon ber are optional. Cosmetics: at 20cm wide its the narrowest

VMPS ever & 5cm narrower than the 626R standmount. At 122cm its only 8cm above the RM2 & a perfect match for video monitors. Depth is a moderate 50cm. Passive Radiators: tunable, down ring, slot & mass loaded (classic VMPS), but with a twist. The ultra-slim bae requires dual 16cm PRs (a VMPS rst), mounted inline front to back. Mass adjustments are performed on both or only one PR (the front), providing ner & smoother tuning increments. Woofer Options: apartment dwellers, persons with 1st octave room modes, persons desiring moderate bass extension, &/or persons already possessing a quality subwoofer will be pleased w/ the C models high 30Hz cuto. The M models side-ring 25cm 80oz-magnet Megawoofer extends to the high 20Hz range. The mirrorimaged L-R speakers are reversible, allowing the 25cm basses to re either inward or outward to maximize the averaging of room modes, ala RMX. We generally recommend: Smaller rooms &/or short sidewall spacing = basses face inward Larger rooms &/or long sidewall spacing = basses face outward Sensitivities/Impedances: Ribbon array about 93dB/8 Ohms, bass section about 91dB/4 Ohms. Mid/tweeter level controls provide equalization & ne-tuning adjustments. Input Connections: single amp/single wire

or biamp/bi-wire. Jumper cables included for shorting the inputs for single amp/single wire use. Both versions (C, M) have the biamp/biwire split between the bass & mids @ 166Hz. Either capacitor upgrade is enthusiastically recommended: Auricaps or the highest quality TRTs. RM30 is high-value & aordable to most audiophiles. It oers the best mid-treble drivers, side-ring MWs (reversible to minimize room modes), & most signicantly its narrow bae provides premium performance & an SOAF rating of 10 (Signicant Other Acceptance Factor). It is priced just above the RM2, has exibility at the level of the RMX, exceeds the best qualities of the 626R, & its maximum output approaches the world-class RM40.
Ribbon Monitor 30 M & C
Bass: 25cm WCF Megawoofer (M version), 2x 16cm WCF, 2x 16cm PR Mid: three 20cm Neo Treble: FST, 7kHz - 30kHz Impedance & Sensitivity: 4 Ohm (3.6min.) 91dB/1W/1m Power handling: 350W rms /4 Ohms, 20Wmin Frequency response: 32Hz25kHz +0/-3dB Dimensions & Weight: 122Hx18Wx49D cm, 50kg.

Super Tower III/SRE Audiophiles visiting us from other planets must think the earthly High End has gone mad. Hi shows across the world have exhibited dozens of systems priced in six gures, with several in the six hundred thousand dollar range for equipment only. A million dollar installations play in few homes; there appears to be no upper limit on what consumers are expected to pay. Lofty prices, however, have not been joined by an appropriate jump in reproduction quality. The arrogance and cynicism of the industry is neatly capsuled by the following true story: a journalist for a leading bu book, aware of the cost-to-retail ratio of speaker systems, queried one manufacturer why his repackaging of ve hundred dollars ($500) worth of cone dynamic drivers sold for $70,000 the pair. Came the succinct reply: You must understand, in the High End, you pay for the price. This poses another question: just what would represent the state of the art in loudspeaker design and performance, and how much would that cost, if audiophilia is not to be considered merely an aiction of the rich and gullible? In our opinion, there is but one answer: a widerange, transformerless, push-pull ribbon, coupled to the best dynamic bass section science can devise. There are many reasons for this statement, and they are worth a closer look. In the Special Ribbon Edition of the VMPS Super Tower III, we use nine of our most advanced Neo ribbons for its midrange array.
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Our ribbon radiates as a dipole, with no enclosure coloration; its back wave is controlled by a foam damper which prevents the comb ltering so characteristic of dipoles while retaining their airy spatiality. Vertical dispersion of such a tall ribbon is, of course, ideal; horizontal dispersion of midrange array is extremely broad and linear. Low, low moving mass of Neo ribbons approximates the mass of the air it must move, for an ideal impedance match. With output at from 166Hz to 10kHz, it needs only mate with an equally good treble ribbon, which by good fortune now also exists in the form of the SRE/ST3s free-swinging six-inch ribbon tweeter, the moving mass of which is one-onehundredth that of the nest moving-coil dome in existence. These ribbons, midrange and treble, measure and sound so superior to anything else yet invented or imagined that the only obstacle to their use in High End speaker systems is the cost. Since our only concern is best sound quality, we are the only manufacturer that uses these drivers. The low moving mass of ribbons in general works against them in the bass, where low system resonance dictates high mass, high compliance woofers. VMPS has a reputation established over 20 years for constructing some of the nest bass systems in the world. We exploit this experience to build the six-foot-four inch bass column of the SRE/ST3. Four 30cm woven-carbon ber, phase plugged active drivers (with Soundcoat-damped baskets) push one mass-loaded, slot-loaded woven carbon ber passive radiator to cuto below 16Hz at levels near 120dB/1m SPL.

Cabinetry is both massive (204kg) and unique in design and construction. The primary material is a synthetic granite, backed by additional thickness of MDF (front, side, and rear baes each having dierent thickness, masses and resonance frequencies). The synthetic granite exhibits damping properties lacking in the natural stone and thus transmits sound poorly.

Panel talk is reduced 10dB more by the internal application of Soundcoat, a borosilicate ceramic damping compound. The damped composite of the SRE/ST3 is suciently massive, well damped, and a bad-enough sound transmitter to be as inert a cabinet as the costliest competitors no matter how much they weigh.

Super Tower III/SRE

Main Column Woofers: Four Woven Carbon Fiber 30cm, phase-plugged, damped baskets; one slot-loaded WCF 30cm down-ring PR with damped basket, mass loaded with useradjustable bass damping; -3dB at 14Hz; Sensitivity: 95dB/1W/1m; Power handling: 800W rms into 6 Ohms. Tweeter: 15cm free swinging monopole ribbon, outboard crossover 10kHz at 12 dB/oct; -3dB at 30kHz, 300W rms power handling into 6 Ohms; 96dB SPL for 1W/1m; level control provided; 15W minimum power required. Bass Crossover: Electronic, 24dB/octave, variable with 10turn level control for bass amp; power supply 120W 10A rms with 1,000,000uF energy storage. Dimensions and Weight: 193x47x48cm (WxHxD), 204kg Midrange Ribbon Frequency Response: Nine Neo panels -3dB at 166Hz and 10kHz; outboard passive crossover 166Hz at 12dB/oct Dimensions of midrange array: 190cm x 11.5cm, attached to Main Column; foam damper for rear radiation of Dipole pattern Power Handling and Impedance: 600W rms into 6 Ohms resistive Sensitivity: 90dB SPL / 1W input at 1m General Amplication: 15W to 600W rms into 6 Ohms recommended; biamping required; system may be triamped without additional crossover. Finishes: Piano white or piano black with removable black cloth grills standard; 78 exotic veneers available at extra cost. Shown in real Brazilian Rosewood with Electronic Crossover/ Power Supply.

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Subwoofers For the past 50 years high delity speaker design has concentrated on the midrange, voice and music frequencies between 250Hz and 2.5 kHz. Midrange is considered so important that many designers neglect bass, and to a lesser extent the trebles just to focus on midrange quality. The popularity of the minispeaker, as well as some planar designs, is eloquent testimony to the predominance of middle frequencies. Actually much of this is based on fallacy. The human voice starts around 70 Hz, and its overtones are strong well beyond 5 kHz. Conductors of renown build their orchestras from the bass up, well aware that bass instruments dene the abilities of the entire ensemble - the band cannot play faster than the doublebasses. The rich, warm tonal balance of European romantic music is ill-served by the midrange alone; indeed, the famous symphonies of the world are noted for their foundation of bass warmth. A good subwoofer can greatly enhance the performance of virtually any music system: rst by extending frequency response into the rst octave (16Hz-32Hz); second by generating much less harmonic distortion in the subbass and bass regions (200hz and below) than is typical of most fullrange speakers, which often produce tens of percent THD in that range; and third by reducing intermodulation and doppler distortion in the main speakers by relegating long wavelength fundamentals to a separate driver which is well suited to reproducing this most dicult area of the musical spectrum. The woofer fullling these functions should be reasonably compact, ecient
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enough and of low mass and inertia to match all main systems, and not prohibitively expensive. In all these areas the VMPS Subwoofers excel. There can be no clean rst octave response from any speaker having a pronounced system resonance in the audible range, and the VMPS Subwoofers, like their full-range multiway oorstanding siblings, are free of such anomalies throughout their operating region. This is achieved by means of a push-pull arrangement of active drivers and passive radiators. The mass-loaded passive, pushed by the low-resonant active woofer, provides most of the rst musical octave thanks to its high compliance and a resonance frequency below the audio range (8 to 12 Hz). Another benet of this arrangement is high eciency, since front and back waves are utilized to produce sound, so typical subwoofer sensitivity reaches 89 to 92dB for one Watt input. Last but hardly least, the active/passive setup lowers bass cuto to into the teens and early twenties, particularly when the optional high power, 2.3kg stacked magnet with woven carbon ber Megawoofer is installed.. VMPS Subwoofers eschew the high moving mass (up to more than 1kg) of many competitors and thus oer at frequency response to 300Hz and higher Electrostatic and other dipole radiators can therefore be crossed over in the more advantageous 175Hz to 250Hz range to minimize frequency response errors caused by the dipole eect (which in many planar systems starts as high as 700 Hz). VMPS Subwoofers (and oorstanding loudspeakers) reach undistorted output levels (for 5% THD) of 112dB to 115dB/1m and higher, at frequencies much lower than other designs.

The Dedicated Subwoofer

Frequency Response: +0, -3dB, 24Hz to 600hz, THD: 5% max 28Hz to 600Hz with 1W drive Sensitivity: 90dB/1W/1m Maximum undistorted output: 112dB/1m for 5% THD Drive Complement: Megawoofer WCF 30cm with natural rubber surround, 30cm mass-loaded passive radiator Recommended Crossover Range: 60Hz to 250Hz Impedance: 8 Ohms (Dual Voicecoil version: 8 Ohms per coil) Power Requirements: 20W to 300W rms Dimensions: 66x39x41cm (HxWxD) Weight: 38.5kg; 19mm MDF construction Finishes: genuine oak veneer

The 215 Subwoofer

Frequency Response: +0, -3dB, 19Hz to 600Hz, THD: 2.5% max. 20Hz to 600Hz with 1 W drive Sensitivity: 90dB/1W/1m Maximum undistorted output: 112 dB/1m for 2.5% THD Drive complement: 38cm polycone active Megawoofer, 38cm slot-loaded passive radiator Recommended Crossover Range: 60Hz - 300 Hz Impedance: 8 Ohms Power Requirements: 20W - 300W rms (300W with Megawoofer) Dimensions: 51x69x43cm (HxWxD) Weight: 43kg Finishes: genuine oak veneer, light or dark, piano black on special order

The New Larger Subwoofer

Frequency Response: +0, -3dB, 17Hz to 250 Hz THD: 0.5% 20Hz to 250 Hz with 1W drive Sensitivity: 92dB/1W/1m Maximum undistorted output: at least 115dB/1m SPL at 20Hz for 2.5% THD Drive Complement: 30cm WCF active, 38cm polycone active, 38cm mass-loaded passive Recommended crossover range: 60Hz to 250Hz Impedance: 4 Ohms Power Requirements: 20W to 500W rms Dimensions: 58x81x48cm (HxWxD) Weight: 63.5kg; 25mm MDF construction Finishes: genuine oak veneer, light or dark, piano black on special order

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Because of very low moving mass both of the active speakers and the passive radiators, VMPS subwoofers are extremely quick and responsive, fast enough not to lag behind even the lowestmass electrostatic or ribbon transducers now available. It is easy to add a Subwoofer to an existing system. Our Passive Crossover (sold as option and built in subwoofers enclosure) allows single amp or biamp operation of woofers and main speakers, providing a xed 90Hz rollo of bass frequencies at 6 dB/octave and a variable roll-in of the main speakers at 12 dB/oct. while maintaining correct phase. This quasi second order design features high quality passive parts (large gauge solid iron inductors, bypassed nonpolar capacitors); a level control for the main speakers matches levels to the woofer. Of course, the Subwoofers can also be operated via an external electronic crossover, in which case we recommend crossover frequencies between 60Hz and 200Hz at either 6dB/oct or 24 dB/oct. The question arises in many installations as to whether one or two Subwoofers should be employed, given the nondirectional nature of bass frequencies. Some also have suggested that woofer placement is relatively unimportant, for the same reason. If space or budget are limited, a single Subwoofer with the Dual Voicecoil option (or the New Larger Subwoofer with its two active woofers separated) and two Passive Crossovers provides excellent performance with greatly enhanced low frequency impact.
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Stereo imaging and dynamic range are much improved, however, by the addition of a second Subwoofer. Where possible woofer placement should be in close proximity and in the same plane as the main speakers. Directional information from the Subwoofers is available at midbass and high frequencies, due to the gentle crossover slopes we recommend and incorporate into our Passive Crossover. Also, a second Subwoofer generates twice the air displacement of a single system, a critical factor in properly reproducing high levels of very low frequency information. Users desiring a faster or warmer sound from the VMPS Subwoofers or any oorstanding speakers can adjust system Q through adding or subtracting mass from the bottom ring passive radiator. This feature allows the woofer to be tuned to a variety of electronics and listening environments, as well as compensate for listener preferences or changing program material. Subjective speed can also be improved by use of the woven carbon ber Megawoofer, the cone of which is 40% lighter and stier than the polypropylene material of the standard active driver. Owners of Quad or Soundlab electrostats can employ any of our Subwoofer cabinets as a stand for these systems, with which they are fully compatible. NASAs Langley Research Center has purchased two Larger VMPS Subwoofers as a source of 118 dB plus, 20Hz tone bursts. The Larger Subwoofer was the only commercially available system capable of so doing.

Home Theatre The main reason virtually all speakers designed for home theater sound bad on music is the requirement for high output levels and extended bass. Traditionally, the audio industry has split into two camps: high-eciency, high-output public address-type manufacturers whose main goal is delivering sound pressure into noisy environments like clubs and stadiums (plus some homes), and makers of low-eciency reference monitors with restricted output and double-digit distortion at levels over 100dB/1m SPL. Faced with the unique challenge of the Home Theater specication, the quality High End manufacturers have produced raucous, unbalanced, thuddy speakers bearing the cachet Home Theater Certied, often paying hefty royalties and licensing fees to do so. The recent Consumer Electronics Shows in Las Vegas revealed the extent of the problem. We visited the Home Theater demonstrations of the biggest names in Hi-Fi only to be blasted by trebly, harsh-sounding dialogue, screeching sound eects, poor delity on music tracks, and boomy bass of the one-note, one-thud variety sucient to scandalize any brand of good reputation.

And the cost? Invariably these systems ran into ve gures (bolstered by the aforementioned licensing fees), excluding the video monitor/ projector and amplication; quite a sti tab for what was basically bad sound. We have designed VMPS Home Theater around dierent objectives. All components in the system are full-range, high output, high delity speaker systems. All have dynamics more than equal to demanding soundtracks. All maintain low distortion at sound pressures above 110dB/1m SPL. Main speakers and subwoofers all produce undistorted bass well into the rst octave, equal to the bass levels demanded by special eects movies. The entire system including dialogue speakers is smooth and well balanced. Music tracks play with full delity and imaging worthy of high-end audio. Voices are natural, sound eects impactful without harshness. It is possible to switch from A/V to audio-only on this system and hear no fallo in reproduction quality or listening pleasure.

Large Ribbon Center

Drive Complement: Two 16.5cm WCF woofers, one Neo ribbon midrange and one spiral ribbon tweeter Dimensions: 83x27x33cm (HxWxD) Weight: 23kg

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There are many features unique to VMPS loudspeakers besides the slot-loaded passive radiator bass system we invented in 1979. Principles or technology we use are not some undocumented procedures created to mislead the consumer, but rather well known facts which require greatest precision and use of most advanced and most expensive materials to become truly audibly advantageous. You can easily hear polarity on all our speakers. The MP in VMPS means minimum phase. All drivers are electrically in phase, and series rst order networks preserve the phase coherency of the envelope and the delity of the waveform. Our crossovers have parts matched to 1/2000% precision, which also allows top quality passive biamping. Adjustability to various environments and equipment is one of the key features why listeners are able to constantly achieve the highest quality sound in their homes using VMPS. Every loudspeaker is equipped with precise potentiometers for adjusting the level of all drivers in relation to bass. These adjustments can be made in less than 0.2dB increments to match it precisely for optimum tonal balance or to compensate for any eventual asymmetry in room acoustics. One of the most important features on oorstanding speakers is the mass adjustable passive radiator. The idea is simple and necessary. The bass loading aects the entire spectrum right up to the treble. Mass adjustability allows to manipulate with the systems Q factor, which also permits compensating for the room placement, damping factor of the amplier and resistance of the speaker wire.
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Our premium WCF woofers with optimally shaped phase-plugs and uniquely damped spiders use natural rubber surround which is todays most advanced cone surround material. Successful use of extremely precise ribbon mid/treble arrangements absolutely demands greatest care in every step of design and manufacturing. After all, its no wonder that almost every audiophile magazine gave us the best of... regardless of price recommendation in the past few years, which was also ocially recognized at 2002 CES in Las Vegas , where our RM40 won the Best of Show in High End Audio Category.

626R FST
Low Frequency cuto: 42 Hz (-3dB) Sensitivity: 90dB/1W/1m Power Requirements: 20W-150W rms Impedance: 8 Ohms Dimensions: 61x25x33cm (HxWxD), 20kg

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VMPS has taken what I consider to be one of the nest speakers on the market, and made it better! The rst RM40 was groundbreaking in its ability to combine imaging, bass response and dynamic capabilities into a single package that sold for $4,200 - $5,400 (depending on the options chosen). At that time, it easily outdistanced the ultra-hype speakers touted in so many magazines and cyber web places. This latest version of the RM40 is better yet. With what was already an exceptional speaker, they have taken the next step musically. They have improved it by rening it in meaningful ways, ways that most speaker manufacturers apparently dont recognize, or a least cant duplicate. One of the best speakers in the world has just gotten better. This is a Component of Exceptional Merit. from Bound for Sound by Marty DeWulf, 2004.

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