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Orion 4.0 Custom Built Speaker Systems

Wood Artistry, L.L.C. is excited to announce that the Orion 4.0 custom built speaker systems are now available. We showed a prototype of these speakers (see photos below) at RMAF show in Colorado and they had an inspiring reception. The production version of the Orion 4.0 system was shown at the AXPONA show, in Atlanta Georgia, April 14th through April 17th, 2011. Here's how John Atkinson, Editor of Stereophile magazine described the new Orion-4 custom built speaker system as,

"definitely one of my two best sounds at Axpona” … “the "William Tell" section from Shostakovich's Symphony 15 had superb dynamic range, with a "quiet" quality that seemed like there was a lower level of spurious behavior from the room. This allowed a wealth of detail to be perceived even when the music was itself quiet.”

 

Renowned audio engineer, Siegfried Linkwitz (right) and Wood Artistry owner, Don Naples (left) introduce the new Custom Built Orion 4.0 Speaker System.

 

The new Orion 4.0 uses woofers made by SEAS, the same company that makes the tweeters and midrange drivers currently used in the Orion system. The current drivers include woofers made by Peerless. The difference in construction is the Peerless are currently in an “H” frame design, where the new Orion 4.0 will use a “W” frame design. The difference is the H frame has the woofers mounted vertically and the W frame has them mounted horizontally. Each Orion 4.0 weighs 85 lbs and uses five SEAS drive-units: two soft-dome tweeters, a magnesium-cone midrange unit, and two long-throw 10" woofers especially developed by SEAS for the open-baffle loading used by Linkwitz. The crossover frequencies are 90Hz and 1440Hz and the tweeters, the midrange unit, and each woofer are driven independently, though the woofers can be paralleled to allow tri-amping if only six amplifier channels are available.

 

 

 

Here are a few pictures from RMAF. Also , please visit the Audiogon.com website for more pictures and a sound sample which was recorded during our demonstration. Contact us for more information.