March Audio is based in Perth, where it designs and builds amplifiers — including the Sound+Image award-winning P452 stereo power amplifier — and now loudspeakers. Some of the amps, including the P452, use Eigentakt power modules from Danish company Purifi. The same company also makes an unusual new design of 6.5-inch loudspeaker driver, and when March Audio trialled this, it proved just the thing to achieve a particular speaker design it was developing.
“We had analysed all the usual suspects, but this Purifi driver was truly exceptional,” says the company’s Alan March. “It is the lowest-distortion longest-stroke driver of its size; indeed its performance exceeds that of far larger drivers. It also has extremely low compression, so sounds very dynamic; it doesn’t limit the volume of transients.”
March Audio’s design objective for its speaker was to build a standmount design (not one which was ‘bookshelf’ small) that delivers truly deep bass extension.
“Many available speakers in this class simply don’t go low enough, in my view,” says Alan March. “While people can always add a subwoofer to small speakers, in reality that is very problematic and difficult to implement properly.”
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