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The Airmotiv B2+ is a two way monitor loudspeaker, equally at home on a sturdy bookcase or stand, featuring a 32 mm Airmotiv folded ribbon tweeter and a 6-1/2 inch woven fiber woofer. The Airmotiv B2+ is ideal for use in a small, high-quality two-channel system, and has plenty of low frequency output to sound great in a small room without the need for a subwoofer. The Airmotiv B2+ also works well as a surround speaker in a home theater system where you prefer not to use wall-mounted speakers.
Airmotiv Passive Loudspeakers: Music Runs in the Family
Your speakers are the single most important component in your audio system; theyre the part that turns a simple electrical signal into the emotional experience that is music. Great speakers can transform an audio system thats merely good into one that can deliver a truly transcendent listening experience. Our new Airmotiv passive loudspeakers represent the culmination of years of research and experience in producing both home and professional loudspeakers, and were designed from the ground up with this critical mission in mind. They were designed from the start to be equally at home in an audiophile stereo system or a high-end home theater, and combine excellent technical performance, superb sound quality, elegant good looks, and excellent value. Our design philosophy is simple: If a speaker can reproduce the entire audible spectrum, as accurately as possible, with very little distortion or coloration, then it will sound good whether youre playing classical music, rock, or your favorite blockbuster movie.
Airmotiv Performance
All of the members of our Airmotiv Passive Loudspeaker family combine meticulous design, extensive testing, and in-depth listening tests with a wide variety of musical material, to deliver the best possible technical performance and sound quality. Our Airmotiv high-frequency transducers deliver flat frequency response, low distortion, virtually nonexistent signal compression, smooth off-axis response, superb transparency, and uncanny imaging. Advanced woven fiber midrange drivers deliver smooth frequency response, and detailed lifelike midrange with very low coloration, and our woofers include high-temperature voice coils and vented pole pieces to ensure crisp bass at all listening levels. Carefully designed precision crossovers, crafted with audiophile quality film capacitors, air core inductors, and precision resistors in critical locations, tie it all together. And, finally, our custom cabinets are crafted from thick, heavily braced, acoustically inert HDF to ensure maximum rigidity and resistance to stray vibration, with a front panel machined from a solid slab of 25mm HDF. The faceted front panel design, borrowed from our studio monitors, not only adds a stylishly futuristic look to our Airmotiv speakers, but also serves a very practical purpose to minimize diffraction effects and room interactions.
Airmotiv Sound Quality
Of course, the goal of all that design and testing is to produce a speaker that sounds really great and, after extensive listening tests, were pleased to report that our new Airmotiv Passive Loudspeakers sound truly superb with all types of music from individual vocalists and intimate jazz ensembles, to full classical orchestras, to heavy metal bands and synthetic electronica. Just pair your Airmotiv Loudspeakers with any high-quality power amplifier (we think ours sound especially good), and youll get perfectly balanced sound, with outstanding clarity, and superb rendition of even the finest details. All of the speakers in the Airmotiv Passive Loudspeaker family are carefully timbre matched to work well together and to deliver a cohesive audio image in any stereo or surround sound installation. The B2+ features an updated crossover that offers smoother midrange performance. (The new models are still perfectly timbre matched with the original Airmotiv Passive Loudspeaker models and will harmonize perfectly if used alongside them.)
Airmotiv Features
Phenomenal sound quality and great specs alone dont make a great speaker, which is why weve included a long list of practical and convenient operational features on our Airmotiv Loudspeakers. The front bezel is finished with multiple coats of attractive satin finish black lacquer, which looks elegant while resisting fingerprints and scratches, and the sides are covered with tough, good-looking textured black vinyl. And, for those of you who prefer to keep their technology under wraps, all of our new Airmotiv speakers include removable, magnetically-attached, grilles.
General
Configuration: Two-way bookshelf monitor loudspeaker.
Cabinet tuning: Rear ported.
Driver Complement
High frequency driver: 32 mm Airmotiv folded ribbon tweeter.
Low frequency driver: 6-1/2 inch woven fiber cone.
Electrical Specifications
Efficiency: 86 dB (2.83V/1m).
Power handling: 125W continuous / 200W peak.
Recommended amplifier power: 50W 300W / channel.
Nominal impedance: 4 ohms.
Frequency response: 40 Hz 28 kHz (+3/-3 dB).
Crossover (woofer / tweeter): 2 kHz, 12 dB / octave.
Mechanical
Dimensions: 12-3/4 inches high x 8-1/2 inches wide x 11-1/2 inches deep. (unboxed) 24″ x 17″ x 18″(boxed)
Weight: 15.6 pounds (unboxed). 39 lbs (boxed).
Mounting: Shelf or stand mounted.
Grille: Black cloth over a rigid frame; attaches securely with powerful magnets for easy removal.
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Brand | Emotiva |
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Variant | Airmotiv |
Product Type | Bookshelf Speaker |
“Why can’t we have amazing audio and video sound at prices that don’t threaten our mortgage?”As high-end audio chased an ever-shrinking market with ever-more-costly gear, the price of sonic nirvana shot out of reach. New enthusiasts shook their heads and thought, “You know, a soundbar and a receiver may not be that bad.”At the same time high-end audio prices were climbing, Dan Laufman and his team were helping some of the best names in audio manufacture their gear. Dan saw the inefficiencies in the system and the ever-climbing prices, and decided to do something about it.The result is Emotiva.