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For 60 years, Cabasse has been a pioneer
in loudspeaker technology. The SCS product
range of point-source, spherical loudspeakers
represents the company's quest for perfect
reproduction of music and movie soundtracks,
regardless of the speaker's placement in
the room.
Baltic,
Alcyone, Eole... all Cabasse’s products
come to life facing the Atlantic ocean,
at the tip of Brittany in western France,
a land of sailors, research scientists and
musicians attuned to different worlds and
universes.
In
2003, Cabasse built the new Cabasse Acoustic
Center at the top of a unique network of
enterprises, prestigious engineering schools
and universities which are specialists in
state-of-the-art technologies in telecommunications,
underwater acoustics and electronics.
The
Cabasse Acoustic Center holds all the Research
and Development skills and expertise required
to study new materials, create new membranes
and drivers, design and manufacture prototypes,
take measurements in anechoic rooms and
run reliability tests, listen to and perfect
equipment with the top sound professionals,
etc.
The
center is also a site for industrialization
and specialized production in coaxial technologies.
Whether
music lovers or musicians, cinema buffs,
sailors or landlubbers who love the open
spaces, all the men and women on the Cabasse
team share the taste for genuine perfection,
nature’s force and resources, the emotions
of “live” sound.
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THE BENEFITS OF CABASSE LOUDSPEAKERS INCLUDE:
- Timeless design. Built to last for decades and they "perform" as well when they are off, as when they are playing.
- Wide sweet spot without typical frequency dips like conventional speaker arrays. Ideal for any type of listening by more than one listener, in wider seating locations than ever before.
- Less room dependant that other technologies. No more fussy room tweaking and alignment. The reflected sound more closely matches the direct sound than any other speaker type. This adds a pronounced level of realism to the performance.
- Efficient and yet high power handling at the same time.
- A wide range of models and price points.
Read
the latest CABASSE Review (May 2009 - Eole 2 - "Balls of Fire" - Home Cinema Choice - UK - 4.1 Mb)
 Stereophile's consummate reviewer, Michael
Fremer, lived for nearly two months with the Cabasse
reference loudspeakers called LaSphere. His review
appears in the June 2008 issue. Here are some excerpts:
"On
an enormously wide and — especially — deep
soundstage, the Sphères produced the most
stable and solidly three-dimensional images I’ve
ever heard, in my room or anywhere else. These images
hung convincingly suspended in space with almost
alarming solidity—it was like looking at scenes
through a View-Master. At least in that respect,
the Sphères did sound fundamentally different
from and better than anything else I’ve heard.
It was like moving from widescreen CinemaScope to
triple-projector 3D Cinerama. The Sphères
traded the usual pinpoint “sweet spot”
for an area the size of a candy factory, over which
soundstaging, imaging, and instrumental timbres
remained fundamentally unchanged (although, in my
relatively small room, the low-frequency balance
did vary off axis)."
"But
even more than startlingly superior staging and
imaging, the harmonic structure of instruments also
sounded more correct, more coherent, more lifelike
than I am used to. And this was with digitized vinyl.
Digititis, grain, etch, edge, and every other quality
of CD sound that repels so many, were simply not
evident in the sound of this system, which operates
wholly in the digital domain. The organization of
the time element resulted in unprecedented ease
of listening—the sense of musical relaxation
I usually associate with live music."
"With
every familiar LP I played during the months the
Sphères were in my room, the absence of time
and phase artifacts, combined with amplitude correction
that resulted in a subjectively near -flat frequency
response in the critical midrange, was the sonic
equivalent of finally getting in sharp focus a long,
blurry, smeared panoramic photo."
Both
catalogs shown above and reprints of the LaSphere
review are available from StJohn Group. Click
Here.
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