英国 城堡

俗话说“条条大路通罗马”，现在看来这句话改为“条条大路通Richmond”更为恰当。

在音箱里也有以Richmond命名的产品，它就是来自35年前成立的英国品牌Castle（城堡），Richmond是经典系列中最小的音箱，上世纪80年代，媒体公认Richmond价格合理、质量上乘。英国著名音响杂志《Hi-Fi Choice》将其评为1981年年度“全年最佳产品”，2004年Richmond 3i系列再次备受推崇，风头更甚。Castle厂方自豪地推出Richmond最新的代表作——Richmond Anniversary周年纪念版。

Ever Since Castle was founded over 40 years ago, the Richmond has been an industry benchmark for sound and build quality. The Castle Richmond is somewhat of a cult item among hi-fi enthusiasts - known for its exceptionally natural reproduction of musical instruments and voices in a compact studio monitor format. Castle proudly re-introduces this legendary model in a collector's anniversary edition with refinements to the cabinet design, voicing and finished in a luxurious lacewood veneer.

For this anniversary issue our engineers have investigated every aspect of the Richmond performance to extract the ultimate sound quality from this diminutive monitor-class speaker, all with the attention to detail and all consuming love of music that made the original such a hit. To start, the behaviour of the cabinet was investigated using the latest vibration and spectral analysis. Richmond’s original 15mm MDF cabinet was later dampened by the addition of bitumen damping pads to reduce the audible effects of panel resonance. Additionally, multi-layer composite panel materials combined with loose fibre weaves further reduce resonance and absorb internal sound waves. Within the cabinet use of judicious bracing ensures that the dynamic capabilities of the drive units are fully realised.

Castle’s famous carbon fibre woven cone is retained as it offers exceptional strength to mass ratio, operating as a pure piston over its pass band. The motor system usilises a kapton former with a copper clad aluminium voice coil to achieve a wide bandwidth in to the treble region.

Treble frequencies are handled by a polyamide micro-fibre 19mm dome, its small diameter enabling piston-like performance and extended HF to well beyond the limits of audibility.

Ultra-Transparent Audiophile Grade Components

Crossover components have been chosen for their transparency and include silicon-ireon laminated core bass inductors, generously oversized air core inductors and Castle’s proprietary polypropylene low-loss capacitors.

Placing the treble unit below the bass unit provides a degree of time alignment between the units allowing the phase accurate crossover, with linkwitz-riley acoustic slopes, to move the stereo soundstage well outside the plane of the loudspeakers. In addition the treble units are offset to scatter front baffle reflections, enhanced by the new, profiled edges of the cabinet.

Richmond Anniversary speakers are supplied in handed pairs to give a precisely focused soundstage. Input to the crossover and drive units are now via updated bi-wire terminals which accept bare wires, spade lugs, pins or 4mm plugs allowing for your preference of cable.