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Ex-dem (and just about nicely run in) with 12 months warranty
Reduced from £2750 to just ...£1995.
| Factory upgraded...
| A rare chance to get hold of a pair of these unique,
true audiophile speakers, combining the benefits of NXT flat panel speaker technology
with traditional moving coil technology and high quality Cyrus engineering.
| | Cyrus Icon X4...
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| What Hi Fi described them as fabulous looking and sounding speakers
and gave them their top 5 Star rating.
| Cyrus Icon...
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| " The Icons impress with their cool silver looks and seamless sound "
" ...low frequency performance is impressively weighty and powerful "
" ...voices are seamless, articulate and expressive to an astonishing degree "
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Cyrus Icon X4 have a fantastic sound stage, if you listen to "live" recorded music,
they produce a sound that is totally realistic, taking you right into the venue.
When you play Sting’s "All this Time" you can shut your eyes and be in his Villa.
The mid and treble frequencies are handled by a carbon fibre alloy honeycomb panel
driven by 4 NXT flat panel exciters. The advantages of flat panel technology are
transparency and fantastic sound staging, with the sound appearing to come from
the space between and beyond the speakers. This is because the area that is
transmitting is about 800 square cms as opposed to 1 square cm from a more traditional
tweeter. The weakness of flat panel speakers is their lack of bass response, which
is overcome in this case by an 8 inch traditional bass driver.
The clever bit is to get these two separate technologies to sound as a complete speaker,
which is where Cyrus’s engineering skills have paid off.
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