Croatia - Distribution of Wilson Benesch moves forward

We are delighted to announce that thanks to Mario Dolinar, Managing Director of Acquisitum Magnum, Wilson Benesch design is now moving forward in Croatia.

We wish Mario and his company every success with their business in the future.

Details of the company are stated below.




Mario Dolinar
Managing director

Acquisitum magnum d.o.o.
Perjavica 32
HR-10090 ZAGREB
mail: mario.dolinar@yba.com.hr
www.yba.com.hr

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WHAT Hi Fi - A.C.T. review is published today

It was eleven years ago that the original A.C.T. One, was released at the Frankfurt
High End Show. This was at a time when every floor standing loudspeaker was a box! Joachim Bose and Thomas Bockler of Alto Hi-fidelity helped make Wilson Benesch a major success in Germany. A success story that would unfold across the rest of the world with Japan being the next major market to follow. The scale of progress made by Wilson Benesch over these industrious years has been one of the great success stories of British Audio design. The original design remains unique in every detail and even today second hand values are testimony to the quality of the product and its value as a reliable investment. This design established Wilson Benesch throughout the world as a loudspeaker design company with prestigious awards and critical acclaim from every continent. In 2006 the latest A.C.T. was selected in the "Recommended Components" listing of Stereophile, USA.

So the story goes on. How many loudspeaker designs of 1996 remain so strong today?

The A.C.T. remains one of the most elegant loudspeaker designs available today. It is possible to see that the design has changed so very little in terms of its visual design aesthetic. We all recognise, that the most demanding test of any advanced design, is the test of time. So although the materials technology is even more advanced it remains just as small and precise as the original. A worthy, time served ambassador of the Wilson Benesch marque.

WHAT HI FI SOUND AND VISION GROUP TEST WINNER (APRIL 2007)
NOW AVAILABLE IN CHERRY RED GLOSS

Red Square!

The rich deep "Red Cherry gloss" finish is added to the Square Series. Available as of Monday 18th june 2007

Trinity - Small speaker, MASSIVE progress

The extruded alloy grill retaining strips are magnetically attached to the alloy baffle

Trinity - looking up

The alloy ports are machined to locate precisely with the alloy base and maximise the air volume of the cabinet.

Trinity - Beyond Category

W.B. One Dynamic Drive unit.
Behind the curved grill and the alloy baffle resides the latest dynamic drive unit technology from Wilson Benesch. W.B. One. Wide Bandwidth One builds upon the success of the Tactic drive unit, taking transient response, dynamics and power handling in to a new dimension. The Tactic was often described as fast. This drive unit goes to the next level.

Trinity - Frequency extension without hardness.

In pursuit of extended high frequency response capabilities, many of our contemporaries have sought to push the limits of the dynamic drive unit beyond its limits. Dynamic, coil based, tweeters simply cannot achieve extreme high frequency sound. It is beyond the limits of the technology. Only super low mass solutions can achieve controlled sound reproduction. Wilson Benesch has retained its soft dome tweeter and opted for appropriate technology to pass on the batten when it naturally rolls off. This solution provides optimum performance within the 5000 to 20,000 bandwidth. The Sphere then takes up the challenge, producing controlled accurate sound up to 100 KHz.

Trinity 40Hz / 100kHz

The success of any sub system is determined by the sum of its parts.

Every individual detail is important in high performance systems. The Dynamic loudspeaker generates dynamic forces that most people would find difficult to appreciate. So it is essential that the forces be interfaced intimately with the ground, in a robust and reliable way whilst at the same time providing adjustability. The Wilson Benesch spike has changed very little, but remains as effective today as it did when it was first designed around a 14mm thread. Trinity sees a larger knurled section in its design.

One component - Many operations - Ultimate finish.

The processing of one steel plate by Wilson Benesch.
1 Selected high quality 8mm thick steel is cut by laser to a tolerance of 0.1mm.
2 This is then machined to provide all the mounting holes on Wilson Benesch CNC tooling.
3 The edge is then machined to a mirror finish.
4 The edges are then de burred by hand.
5 The ultimate surface finish is then produced by surface grinding.

Both surfaces of all plates used in every loudspeaker are prepared in this way.

Having been ground to the finest finish each plate is completely flat. Only when this has been achieved is the plate released to the powder coater. Here, an architectural specification powder coat is applied that will with stand the most hazardous climatic conditions.

At every stage quality inspection takes place.

The plate being machined in this image can be seen on Trinity. If you refer above to Trinity - "Looking up" you can see the plate when assembled.

Despite the fact that one side is impossible to see and the majority of the plate is obscured from view, this plate is treated in exactly the same way as the visible plate that may be used for the footplate for example.

One component - Many operations - Ultimate finish.

W.B. ONE Dynamic Drive Unit

There are 14 separate elements in one W.B. One Dynamic drive unit.
Each element has a direct effect upon the sound that the final sub system will make. When each component is under your control it is possible to guarantee that each hand made drive unit is manufactured to standards that may appear to be above and beyond what is reasonable. What is more, because the unit is made under the same roof that it was designed, the most fastidious attention to detail is possible as is evolutionary progress as in the case of the W.B. One.

It should not be forgotten that Wilson Benesch drive units are often presented in their full glory to be seen in every detail. This is not done for aesthetic but acoustic reasons. What is described below is the process required to realise just one front plate. One component part of the W.B. One dynamic drive unit.

1 Production planned for the front plate,
2 Material ordered in advance
3 Saw shop cuts material into specified billet size
4 material delivered just in time to Wilson Benesch
5 C.N.C. Lathe
Face machined
back face machined
inspected and packaged
6 C.N.C. milling machine
vent apertures milled
holes drilled
holes tapped
Inspected and packaged
7 shipped to plating company
component plated
Inspected and packaged
8 returned to Wilson Benesch
Inspected
9 delivered to assembly area.
Inspected prior to assembly into motor sub system.
Assembled into driver.
Tested
Inspected and packaged
10 Component is finally ready for assembly into loudspeaker system.

The latest advanced developments in driver technology to come from Wilson Benesch is the W.B. ONE.
As part of our on going research we are delighted to be able to announce the results of extensive evolutionary development. The W.B. ONE builds upon the strengths of the Tactic drive unit, retaining as it does the same cone technology and the lowest structural profile basket system in the world. The design has been created to form part of Trinity, where improved transient response is a major design objective. The mounting arrangement is totally different to previous designs and so it is not possible to provide this unit as an upgrade solution.

There is not enough space here, to cover all the details of this important component. A White Paper will be posted in the autumn. The main objective of the new motor design was to deliver as much valuable flux to the gap as possible. Another important goal was to make small but important improvements to air flow within the system itself that acts against the dynamics of the moving elements. The outcome is a more powerful system that sees optimised venting of air. The spring effect of constrained air has been almost eliminated and as a result a 2dB improvement in S.P.L. smoother response in the roll off region and improved dynamic control has been realised. Significantly this has been achieved with minimal increase in the motor structure, an important virtue of the Tactic drive unit. Each individual part is precision machined by Wilson Benesch to exacting tolerances. These tolerances are simply beyond the scope of drop forged, conventional designs.

Trinity: a new genre of wide bandwidth sound

Trinity: a new perspective in high definition sound

Denmark: Wilson Benesch moves forward with Radioactiv ApS

Kaj Danielsen speaking on behalf of Radioactiv:
“Everyone at Radioactiv are very excited about the introduction of Wilson Benesch. The Wilson Benesch product line has been followed by us for some years. There is market demand for the unique design, advanced materials technology and innovative solutions that can be found in Wilson Benesch products.

Wilson Benesch will be launched in to the Danish market in August 2007, We would be happy for any customers in Denmark to contact us for advice on local high end dealers.”

Radioactiv,
Kirkegade, 6700 Esbjerg,
Denmark
Phone: +45-20974721
Fax: +45-75139420
www.radioactiv.dk
info@radioactiv.dk

REDFERN IMAGE OF THE MONTH - DIANA KRALL

Diana Krall's music is often featured at Wilson Benesch exhibitions. The recordings are an example to an industry often neglectful of quality recordings. Both DVD and SACD recordings achieve engaging productions.

Krall was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. James Krall (father) had assembled a large jazz collection that must have influenced Diahttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifna and at the age four she started to play the piano. At the age of fifteen, she was playing regularly in several Nanaimo restaurants. By seventeen she had won a scholarship from the Vancouver International Jazz Festival to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and completed three terms.

Bass player Ray Brown (ex-husband of the late Ella Fitzgerald, long-time member of the Oscar Peterson Trio and Grammy-winning composer) and drummer Jeff Hamilton encouraged Krall to move to Los Angeles, and study with pianist Jimmy Rowles, with whom she began to sing. In 1990, Krall relocated to New York. Since 1990 she has recorded numerous albums and been nominated for several and won two grammy awards. She has enjoyed a fantastic career enjoying collaborations with leading artists from many fields of music. She recently married Elvis Costello and has since given birth to twins.

In 2000, she was awarded the Order of British Columbia. In 2003 she was given an honorary Ph.D. (Fine Arts) from the University of Victoria. In 2004 she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. In 2005, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

She is an honorary board member of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. Adella (mother) died from Myeloma in
2002.

http://www.dianakrall.com/ For 2007 USA tour information that begins in June