Genesis Advanced Technologies G2.2 owner manual Servo-controlled Amplifier

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The woofers are a uniquely designed metal cone driver made for the Genesis servo system. Made with a cone of solid aluminium, the suspension and voicecoil have been maximized for long distortion-free excursion so as to increase dynamic range. Our aluminium cones are a magnitude stiffer than any plastic cone on the market, and virtually eliminate the problems caused by cone bending and break-up.

The lowest break-up mode (where there can be any chance of distortion at all) is at 6,000Hz – far above the 16Hz to 120Hz frequency range that these drivers operate at. Therefore, the driver is a perfect piston within the frequencies used. Thus, extremely low cone break-up distortion is inherent in the driver that is designed for the Genesis 2.2.

Unlike the midrange and the tweeters, the front and rear woofers operate in phase as a bipolar arrangement in which all sixteen operate in unison to control the air mass of the entire room. This means that the surface area of the eight cones and the large enclosure all work together in unison to produce bass output that descends evenly to below your hearing limits.

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One problem, however, of metal cones, is that of greater mass (even ones as light as the ones used in the G2.2). To over come this, Genesis had to build an amplification system of great power, and high damping factor. The servo system also places extraordinary demands on the amplifier because the system uses enormous amounts of current to make the woofer follow the input signal. Combined with the metal cones, this means that the amplifier used must efficiently deliver extraordinarily large amounts of clean power into very low impedances.

In the Genesis 2.2, the amplifier was designed as a holistic system of woofers, integrated connecting cables, amplifiers, servo-control and remote controlled crossover circuitry. Two separate two- channel amplifier modules are used for the left and right woofer towers.

Specially designed and tuned “Dynamic Reserve” power supplies are used – one for two channels – to deliver balanced dynamics which are critical to bass accuracy. This improves the power factor

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