LITHUANIAN HIFI BRAND SILENT POUND AT AUDIO VIDEO SHOW IN WARSAW

Silent Pound is a young Lithuanian HiFi brand who are designing and making open baffle speakers. At this year’s Warsaw HiFi Show they are launching the new Silent Pound Challenger.

Their previous system was called Discovery and now they will present their new model, Challenger, a hybrid audio system.

SILENT POUND CHALLENGER

The Silent Pound Challenger is a minimal, and elegant design designed to deliver in any room as small as 25 sq. m. without any audio treatment in the room.

Silent Pound will exhibit the Silent Pound Challenger at the Radisson Blu Sobieski Hotel Room Arkadia IV-V.

The design of the speakers aims to direct soundwaves toward the listener while trying to radiate as few waves to reflective surfaces as possible thus decreasing interaction between speakers and the room.

Silent Pound Challenger

LOW FREQUENCY

The designers say that from a technical standpoint, the biggest challenge to control directivity is in the low frequency range.

Audrius Balciunas told us: “There are different ways to achieve this goal, such as low-frequency horns or low-frequency speaker arrays. Usually, they are very expensive to acquire and require a lot of technical skill to install. We’ve addressed this issue by building in a gradient type low frequency (LF) module in our system and the results were astonishing: 3x less acoustic power radiation to the room (directional index ~4,8 dB) when compared to traditional closed enclosure speakers emitting low-frequency sound in all directions. This particular LF technical solution allowed for noticeable decrease in room resonance within the lowest frequencies with no additional room treatment”.

MID RANGE AND HIGH FREQUENCY

Audrius explains: “Mid-frequency range plays a crucial part in recreating a sound stage, which is why we’ve paid a great deal of attention to designing mid- and high-frequency range part of the system. To address the mid-range frequency (MF) correction of directivity in the lower part of MF range, we’ve created a unique acoustic enclosure, which allowed to find optimal acoustic balance between MF and LF. Careful experiments and calculations led to a significantly more detailed soundstage when compared to traditional systems. MF-HF range is recreated by a mathematically modeled compact horn of our own original design tuned to match MF”.

Silent Pound Challenger in black, with grille

VISUAL DESIGN

The Challenger has a steel cabinet that is only 15 cm deep and is Inspired by timepiece makers with an open back. The crossover part which is the brand’s own design is visible through safety glass.

Silent Pound Challenger crossover

Colours available are classical black or white and an array of colours, from Pearl Gentian Blue to Grey Metallic Atlas.

The brand collaborated with award-winning industrial designer Moses Kang on the Challenger, which is designed and assembled in Lithuania.

SILENT POUND CHALLENGER SPECIFICATIONS

Sensitivity: 88dB (2.83V/1m)

Frequency range: 30 Hz – 18 000 Hz

Impedance: 4 Ohm

Recommended amplifier: 100 – 400 W

Dimensions (W/D/H): 36x35x124 cm

Weight: 60 kg/unit

SILENT POUND CHALLENGER PRICE

TBC in the region of 10,000€

AUDIO VIDEO SHOW WARSAW 2022

The Audio Video Show is the second largest audio video fair in Europe. With 2000 square meters of exhibition, over 170 rooms, 200 exhibitors, and 600 brands,  the fair will take place from 28th to the 30^th of October 2022 at the PGE National Stadium and in the Golden Tulip, and Radisson Blu Sobieski Hotels in Warsaw. Audio Video Show also offers interesting seminars, meetings with special guests, live music, and much more.