Description
Performance and musicality
Ascendo The Black Swan Pro Active EXT
THE BLACK SWAN ACTIVE EXT is a speaker system that sets new standards in the world of home theaters and commercial cinemas. Ultimate sound pressure and finest detail resolution, paired with an outstanding musicality are not opposites anymore, they melt in the THE BLACK SWAN to a perfect combination.
Equipped with a point source asymmetrical horn system, exclusively designed and custom-made to reach a low crossover point and perfect mid to high frequency reproduction. This time-coherent linear phase, high-performance point-source, combines with an ultra-fast and highest sensitivity 15-inch mid-woofer to an extremely impressive and extraordinary performing musical speaker system, that leaves nothing to be desired. Reference levels even at huge commercial theaters are one trait of this unmatched speaker system.
It’s absolutely fascinating how the BLACK SWAN system breathes finest, extremely quiet, almost only hinted notes into the cinema in such a soft yet differentiated and airy way to instantly throw thunderstorm salvos in the next moment into the listening room accompanied by explosively upsurging volume peaks at frightening life like volume levels.
SPECIFICATIONS
Speaker type
4″ compression driver with proprietary ellyptical horn and 1 x custom built 15″ midwoofer
Principle
Vented
Passive / Active
Active, 2Ch DSP + 2Ch amplifier are required
Recommended amplifiers
1 x low-mid amp channels with 85 Vrms, 120 Vpk, 10,6 A; high 44 Vrms, 62Vpk, 5,5 A; equivalent to 1 x LF 900W@8Ω, 1 x HF 240W@ 8Ω
Recommended ASCENDO amplifiers
DSP ULN2-2604 D
SPL
Calculated Data
125 dB cont. / 132 dB peak
Frequency range
Calculated Data
55 Hz – 25 kHz
Woofer
Custom built 15″
Mid / High
4″ dome, with ultra high pecision diaphragm centering system and BEM optimized 4-slot phaseplug design (horn)
Directivity horizontal x vertical in Deg°
80° x 45°
Output terminal horn
Neutrik Speakon
Input terminal horn
Neutrik Speakon
Input terminal woofer
Neutrik Speakon
Enclosure
Internally braced birch ply and MDF
Width
35,43 ” | 900 mm
Hight
53,54″ |1360 mm
Hight with feet
54,53″ |1385 mm
Depth with plug
22,83 ” | 580 mm
Depth without grill
22,83 ” | 580 mm
Weight
144,4 lbs |65,5 kg
