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About The Alta Audio Hestia Titanium
A serious pair of speakers from New York based company Alta Audio, the Hestia Titanium has many standout feature that result in a listening treat, and in this case, an audiophile bargain. The upper section of this speaker is an open-baffle design. The tweeter and midrange drivers are mounted in a verticle baffle panel made from a multi-layered epoxy construction which is incredibly inert, and the rear of the drivers are totally open – creating a dipole radiation pattern. The bass driver is mounted into a hybrid transmission line/reflex loaded box that is carefully acoustically matched to the dipole behaviour. But that bass driver is unusual in that it uses a titanium voice coil former (hence the name) rather than the usual aluminium former – a measure that provides increased strength, even lower weight and because titanium is a poorer conductor than aluminium, eddy currents are lower. Overall this change is said to significantly improve transparency and dynamics.
