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ESSENTIAL HIGH END MUNICH 2023 – AUDIOSOLUTIONS

Essential High End Munich 2023 is a series of promotional articles about the essential HiFi brands to visit at the show. Read on for more about their philosophy, their products, and, of course, where they will be at this year’s High End Show.

AudioSolutions Figaro MK2 Speakers launched.

AUDIOSOLUTIONS FIGARO MK2

The most successful speaker series from the Lithuanian HiFi brand AudioSolutions has been reborn.

The visual change is quite significant as it became much more modern. Believe it or not, the cross-cut of the speaker stayed the same, just as the proportions and many other technical aspects which made Figaro (mk1) a superior speaker in its price range.

New Figaro is not only a visual face-lift. Despite the fact that the previous version was indeed a ground-breaking speaker in the market, there still was a few things to make it even better, and after five years in production, we gathered enough information about what we would like to improve and launched a major update for this remarkable model.

AudioSolutions Figaro MK2

OUTRIGGER SYSTEM

One of the most awaited updates is the outrigger system with spike support. Not only does the speaker stand more in a more stable fashion,  but its footprint on the ground is minimized.

AudioSolutions Figaro MK2 drivers

DRIVERS AND CROSSOVER

Figaro now has dedicated bass drivers compared to mid-bass units in the previous version. Sonic response and articulation has improved quite a bit. Updating the Mini-Horn was not necessary but we made slight improvements in it as well. A slightly different geometry gives a bit wider working range, especially in the very top band of the frequency.

New parts for the AudioSolutions Figaro MK2

Crossovers were updated with thicker wire air-coils as well as a new PCB layout which has slightly less cross-talk. We still use WBT Next-Gen binding posts for Figaro and are planning to add a Bi-Wiring option to larger models.

AUDIOSOLUTIONS FIGARO MK2 CABINET

The most important and biggest update is of course in the cabinet structure itself. In the previous version, we used a Self-Locking cabinet which was a breakthrough in our manufacturing.

It was seen for the first time when we introduced it in the Overture MK2 speakers during Warsaw Audio Video Show 2015. It was a very promising technology that was developed further for more than three years. After updates in the Self-Locking cabinet, we introduced it in the Figaro MK1 speaker in 2018 and the final result was unbelievably good.

After such success, we encouraged ourselves to think more out of the box and step even further. We quietly started to work with a completely different approach which does not bind the cabinet to one monomythical structure but rather has some plasticity between different mass and density surfaces which converts vibration energy to heat in the junction between two surfaces. This technology proved itself to have much more potential from the very first tests. After just about 1 and a half years, we already had a fully working new cabinet structure which we introduced in the Virtuoso series in 2019 it is called Cabinet-In-a-Cabinet (CIC) system. This system proved to have such a huge potential that we decided to stop developing a Self-Locking cabinet any further and sink ourselves into developing a Cabinet-In-a-Cabinet system. Figaro Mk2 right now features a fully functional Cabinet-In-a-Cabinet (CIC) enclosure directly taken from a much more expensive speaker series – Virtuoso. This is the major and most significant update for new Figaro speakers.

AudioSolutions Figaro MK2 in Grey

AUDIOSOLUTIONS FIGARO MK2 SPECS

Technical parameters for the pair which will be exhibited at Munich high-end show:

Dimensions (HxWxD): 1138mm x 270mm (396mm with outriggers) x 472mm

Weight: 45 kg/90 lbs each

Shipping weight: 49 kg/99 lbs each

Sensitivity: 91.5 dB @ 2.83V 1m

Nominal power handling: 170 W rms

Maximum unclipped power handling: 340 W;

Impedance: nominal 4,0 ohms

Crossover frequency: 400 Hz; 4000 Hz

Frequency response (in-room environment): 30-25000 Hz

Drivers: 2,5cm silk dome tweeter, 15.2cm ER paper cone mid, two 18.3cm ER paper cone bass drivers

HEAR AUDIOSOLUTIONS AT HIGH END MUNICH 2023

They will be in Hall 3 K09

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