CLOSER ACOUSTICS FORLANE IS THE BRAND’S SMALLEST FLOORSTANDER

The Closer Acoustics Forlane is the Polish HiFi brand’s newest and smallest floorstanding speaker.

Closer Acoustics Forlane is a floor stander with a 7″ full range driver.

EMS LB7 DRIVER

Now in the 10th anniversary year of Closer Acoustics, they are launching their smallest so far floor standing loudspeaker with 7” EMS LB7 driver. The EMS LB7 Driver has a resonant frequency of 40Hz, going up to 18kHz without and addition of a whizzer. Moving mass 6,5 gr, Qts 0,215, Vas 56 L and efficiency of 94dB.

The EMS LB7 driver

DISTRIBUTED RESONANCE CABINET

Jacek of Closer Acoustics considered several designs for the cabinet and a few sizes. Eventually, he decided to stay with their in-house specialty the distributed resonance cabinet, the same principle used for Closer’s Vigo and Allegra, Adam and Eva loudspeakers. They settled on the dimensions of 42 litres volume, 1m height, 20 cm width, 34 cm depth.

The Distributed Resonance Cabinet has a system of two channels in which the back wave travels inside of the cabinet. The two channels have a different shapes, length and volume. The acoustic energy travels in opposite directions in both of these internal channels and then dissipates when the two ends meet.

Closer Acoustics Forlane

FORLANE, WHERE DID THE NAME COME FROM?

Jacek Grodecki, the creator of Closer Acoustics told us: “That is very interesting. As usual, it has something to do with my musical interests and choices. It is a name of a solo dance for a female dancer with beautiful and very complicated choreography. It originates in the Friulli – a region in northern Italy. It was popular in XVII century and danced often during the carnival in Venise. But how come I found it… Well, one of my favourite composers is Maurice Ravel and in my music library, one of the very first CDs with classical music I bought in the early nineties is Decca Sir Georg Solti with The Chicago Symphony Orchestra performing Le Tombeau de Couperin composed by Maurice Ravel. This piece of music is a tribute to François Couperin Le Grand the harpsichord virtuoso and  the court musician of the famous French king Louis XIV. Ravel wrote it in 1917 as a suite for piano in six parts: Prélude, Fugue, Forlane, Rigoudon, Menuet and Toccata. As a master of orchestration in 1919 he orchestrated Le Tombeau de Couperin (excluding Fuga and Toccata).

The Forlane itself is inspired by the Forlane – the last part of The Quatrième Concert Royale written by François Couperin for Luis XIV who summoned Couperin “almost every Sunday of the year” to play the music. Royal Concerts were written as small chamber concerts for harpsichord, flute, oboe, viola, and bassoon. Forlane seems to be just the perfect keystone connecting all the threads together”.

Closer Acoustics Forlane…and the rest of the family

‍CLOSER ACOUSTICS FORLANE SPECIFICATIONS

94 db efficiency

Single driver- EMS LB7

No crossover or filters.

WBT-0703 Cu Nextgen pole terminals

Height 112 cm – with the base plinth

Width 20 cm

Depth 34 cm

‍CLOSER ACOUSTICS FORLANE PRICE

7,000€ plus VAT where it applies.‍

HiFi Pig Says: We very much enjoyed the Closer Acoustics OGY which we reviewed, we are looking forward to hearing the Closer Acoustics Forlane very soon!