Neat Acoustics Ultimatum XL6 (ÇİFT)

The ULTIMATUM XL6 loudspeaker is a floorstanding design which adheres to all the principles that have marked out the ULTIMATUM project and given it such enduring success. The ultra-rigid birch-plywood enclosure, innovative baffle-decoupling technology, ‘isobaric’ bass loading and use of twin EMIT ribbon-type super-tweeters are employed here to deliver the ULTIMATUM promise of a lifetime of musical enjoyment.

The enclosure comprises five discrete internal cavities each optimised for purpose. The Bass and Mid/Bass volumes are large to suit the tuning while the HF cabinet is small to increase rigidity and to stop back pressure from the Mid Bass driver adversely affecting the rear chamber of the tweeter. The two EMIT supertweeters are similarly isolated

Ultimatum range features several key design principles which Neat believe to be of particular importance.

1. Iso-baric (compound) bass loading with bass-reflex tuning.

2. Birch Plywood cabinet construction. Plywood arguably possesses the best sonic behaviour of all wood based enclosure materials.

3. Discrete internal cavities for each drive unit in the system, each sealed from the others. This eliminates interference between the drive units operating within the enclosure, allowing each to do its job unhindered.

4. The use of the 6.5” (168 mm) bass/midrange drive units. This type of main driver offers an ideal balance of the compromises required to deliver speed, depth and crossover cohesion.

5. The use of area-drive super-tweeters for the extension the upper frequencies. Those used in the Ultimatum series extend beyond 40K. It is astonishing how much this information affects the content within the ‘normal’ frequency range.

6. Optimal coupling of the drive unit baffle to the main enclosure. The system used in the Ultimatum is a high density fibreboard baffle, coupled to the main Birch Plywood enclosure by means of a polyethylene membrane. This makes a very inert platform for the drive unit/baffle/cabinet interface, thus allowing all of the drive units to deliver their performance with a minimum cabinet colourations.

The Ultimatum range is far from being the most expensive available, yet offers state-of-the-art performance and is internationally acclaimed as being amongst the very best there is, regardless of price.

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