PSB Synchrony T600
LOUDSPEAKER
Exactly five years ago as I write these words, I reviewed an elegant-looking and elegant-sounding tower loudspeaker from Canadian manufacturer PSB: the Imagine T3.1 Priced at $7498/pair before it was discontinued, the T3 combined three woofers, each housed in its own vented subenclosure, with a 5.25" midrange unit mounted above a 1" tweeter.
As I write these words I am listening to a pair of PSB’s new Synchrony T600 loudspeakers, which cost $7999/pair and were designed, like the T3, by a team led by PSB founder and chief acoustic designer Paul Barton.2 Also like the T3, the T600 houses each of its three woofers in its own vented subenclosure, married to a 5.25" midrange unit and a 1" titanium-dome tweeter, again with the midrange unit mounted above the tweeter. But there, the similarities end.
The most obvious difference is that, whereas the Imagine T3 featured a gracefully curved, veneered enclosure formed under pressure from MDF laminations, the Synchrony T600 is a conventional-looking tower with a gloss-finished, rectangular–cross-section cabinet made from MDF and an aluminum-clad front baffle. While the T3’s three 7" woofers featured cones of compressed felt and fiberglass, the T600’s three 6.5" woofers use cones of woven carbon fiber, allied to rubber surrounds and cast-aluminum baskets.
