Genesis I.C.E The Genesis 6.1e Technology, 5.1Dipolar Configuration, 5.2The Transducers

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5 The Genesis 6.1e Technology

5.1Dipolar Configuration

What a lot of people don’t realize is that the room is as big (if not bigger), a part of their music system as is the loudspeakers. At Genesis, we strive to get the loudspeaker and the room to work well together and hence, design loudspeakers that interact with the room, and have enough of adjustment to make them work with most rooms in the world.

All rooms have floors, ceilings and sidewalls that distort sound because of lateral, early-arriving reflections. We aim to suppress undesirable contribution by reflected sound from these four surfaces (which is why a lot of people put sound absorbers or diffusers at the first reflection point of the room). In order to do that with a majority of rooms, we make our loudspeakers dipolar.

Dipoles radiate the same, but out-of-phase, waveform from the front and rear in “push/pull” fashion. Thus, the sound waves from the front and back of the speakers cancel out as they radiate from the sides andtops of the speakers; which means that there is minimum radiation of sound to the sidewalls of the room.

The G6.1e also uses the wall behind the speaker to give more depth to the soundstage and “air” to the speaker without detail robbing room reflections from the sidewalls. Hence, it has the advantages of omni- directional speakers, without the disadvantages.

With fewer spurious reflections to confuse your hearing, the program source emerges more clearly. Imaging is stable, sharply focused, deeper, and spacious. Transients are clearer, and sharper.

5.2The Transducers

The transducers in the 3-way G6.1e are all proprietary Genesis- designed drivers manufactured to our exacting standards.

5.2.1The Genesis Ribbon Tweeter

Reviewers in the audiophile press have often remarked that the Genesis circular ribbon tweeter is the world’s best. It is a one inch circular planar ribbon design crafted from an extremely thin membrane of Kapton with a photo-etched aluminium “voice coil” that is a mere 0.0005 inch thick. The entire radiating structure has less mass than the air in front of it! That is why it will reproduce accurately, frequencies beyond 35k Hz.

The result of this design is a driver that has a rapid and uniform response to high frequencies and has the speed of the best

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