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ABOUT eficion Investing in a good music system is like enabling you to go to concerts and listen to your favorite artists whenever you want. Is there any other purchase that can make you feel as good and for as many times as this? Unfortunately, many people spend thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in music systems, and never get that going-to-concert feeling. The problem is not that you are not discerning enough. The problem is really that you may not have invested in a right system. It is a notorious fact that sound quality and price of music systems are often time quite detached from each other -- some hugely expensive systems sound rather mediocre. It is also a notorious fact that longevity and popularity of a company does not mean it can produce really good products. The main reason for such discrepancies is that audio product market is a very inefficient one. Unlike TV sets that can be placed side by side in large numbers for easy comparison, audio system can hardly ever be compared fairly in large numbers, especially the number of places that can adequately demo such audio systems keeps shrinking. Apparently, such inefficient market favors incumbents and good marketers, instead of good product developers. When Eficion LLC was formed in early 2007 in a suburb of Seattle, we made it our mission to develop real good products at reasonable price -- bringing "virtual concerts" to the masses.
OUR DESIGN
FEATURES
A
loudspeaker is only as good as its drivers get. We always use very
fast and linear tweeters, so that the loudspeakers not only produce
sound with minimum distortion but also convey emotions -- the
loudspeaker that sings. The F200 uses an innovative honeycomb
micro-structured aluminum ribbon tweeter, which produces an
extremely precise and sweet treble extending up to 40KHz
(traditional dome tweeter typically goes to 28KHz). The F300 uses a
world renowned air motion transformer tweeter as well as a honeycomb
micro-structured aluminum ribbon super-tweeter. The woofers are also
the very best as well, employing an innovative copper shorting ring
and a damping coil to reduce bass distortion and tighten the bass
response. The molded diaphragm material, carbon fiber, is made
by DuPont for aerospace industry.
When
drivers have achieved a certain level, cabinets become just as
important as the drivers. Sophisticated structures and high quality
materials are always used in constructing the cabinet. The F200
special edition (SE) employs laminated bamboo in place of the MDF,
which produces even cleaner and tighter sound due to the much
greater rigidity of the bamboo material. The F300 employs our
specially developed cabinet structures (patents pending) to
completely eliminate the box sound without massively increasing the
cabinet weight.
In
fact, every thing counts toward making an extraordinary loudspeaker.
Therefore, we use only the very best components for the F200 and
F300, such as Mundorf M-cap Supreme capacitors for crossovers,
Teflon insulated OCC cable for interconnections.
We
hope you hear them. Then you will realize what lifelike sound really
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