Chario :: Academy: Serendipity

Chario Adadimy Serendipity

Only a few concepts are necessary to understand the rationale behind the Serendipity design. We tried to give the listener a better illusion of being there in three steps:

Pulling out existing ambience information from standard recordings;
Presenting them to the ears in a different manner never tried before;
Reducing to the minimum the influence of listening room boundaries.

It seems compulsory to disperse the information over a wider area to let our brain localize the resulting multi-direction distribution of the ambience signals. This in-turn leads to the smearing of the direct sound compromising the front sound stage. Academy Serendipity is based on the assumption that a vertical array of sources with different frequency bandwidth, different gain and different group delay can act as a distributed source, generating at the listeners ears some cross-talk signals useful to enlarge the side perspective while keeping the correct localization cues. To achieve this the Academy Serendipity design manages the frequency distribution of acoustic energy from floor and ceiling, the first reflections, by means of the proprietary WMT TM Alignment configuration and the geometry of the vertical reversed driver array.

specifications:

Low Frequency Load	NRS 2? sr Vented Isobaric Compound
Vent Geometry	Bi-dimentional Hyper-Exponential Hourglass Type
Configuration	5 way Reversed Vertical Alignment Floor-Standing
Drivers	1 Tweeter 32 mm SILVERSOFT^TM dome NeFeB motor 1 Midrange 130 mm ROHACELL® Poly-Ring NeFeB motor 1 Woofer 130 mm ROHACELL® Full-Apex^TM NeFeB motor 1 Woofer 170 mm ROHACELL® Full-Apex^TM NeFeB motor 2 Sub 320mm Natural Fibres – 2 Waves Surround HF motor
Sensitivity	93 dB SPL normalized to 1m with 2.83Vrms de-correlated L/R pink noise within IEC 268-13 compliant listening room
Low Frequency Cut Off	23Hz @ -3dB referred to C₄ WETS
Overlapping Points	240/500/1250/1850 Hz
Rated Impedance	Modulus 4O (min 3.0) Argument ±36°
Size	1610x400x580 mm (HxWxD)
Weight	100kg
Cabinet	Solid walnut or cherry and HDF. The structure is made up of cabinets: the lower, containing two woofers and the upper, containing two woofers, one midrange and one tweeter. The two wooden structures are separated by means of four cylindrical proprietary-engineered elastomer puffers which act as vibration de-couplers dissipating mechanical energy by orthogonal elongation.
Speakers Orientation	The speakers should be tilted inward facing the listener.
Listening Distance	Optimum speaker-listener distance is within 3.5 – 4.0m
Listening Layout	A carpeted floor in front of the speakers is recommended.
Side and Back walls	Should stay 1m away from the speaker front baffle at least.
Suggested Amplifier
Normal amping	Rated for 400 W/4 max Average Power.
Bi-amping	Rated for 200 W/4 max Average Power.