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HiVi D1.1se minimonitor
** Now stocked in Piano Black, and including bi-wirable inputs free of charge. Stocking in maple and rosewood Spring 2010. **
The D1.1se for 2010 is Swan's finest minimonitor and uses their most finest 5.75" midbass driver and 1.1" dome tweeter. Swan's manufacturing arm builds hundreds of thousands of drivers a year but as with those in the D2.1se, the drivers in this model are their most regarded.
The D1.1se is both a perfect match for a multichannel system using the D2.1se, but is also well-suited as a powerful main loudspeaker for the smaller audiophile or home theater system.
It takes top-grade components to do what the D1.1se does, which is to sound dynamic, neutral, and musical. The tweeter includes a German silk dome, ferrofluid cooling, decompression chamber, and FEA-designed motor and suspension. The midwoofer is a stand-out Swan performer - it's found in much more expensive state of the art monitor loudspeakers - and uses a number of proven, effective technologies:
- Hybrid Neodymium/ferrite motor for audibly lower distortion than conventional designs
- Oversized voice coil for linear drive and high temperature tolerance
- Ventilated chassis and motor structure for cool, linear operation at high level
- Critically damped polymer cone for low self noise
- Synthetic butyl rubber surround for long life and linear travel
- Linear suspension for low mechanical distortion
- Special heavy cast basket for low resonance
This minimonitor has surprising bass -- quick, textural, organic, and extraordinarily dynamic given the D1.1se's compact size and conservatively-rated low frequency cutoff. The midbass has punch, definition, and body. Mids are vivid yet effortless, and as with the larger D2.1se, users report a great overload threshold and excellent grace under pressure when vocalists and lead instrumentation get loud. This model's highs are nuanced, detailed, and dynamic.
The 1.1" / 28mm dome tweeter in the D1.1se is Swan's best and matches the D series overall.
The high-power, high-tech 5.75" / 150mm midbass is one of a kind in the D1.1se's class.
When driven with good equipment and recordings, the D1.1se can build a big, wall-to-wall image. The speaker develops excellent depth, superb micro- and macro-dynamics, and an overall organic, natural presentation -- brass sounds like brass, wood like wood, and vocals like the real thing.
The Swan D1.1se in Khaya Crotch (African "Rosewood" Mahogany).
The D2.1se is available in Khaya Crotch (African "Rosewood" Mahogany), European Birdseye Maple, and Gloss Piano Black, each of which match the D series throughout. This is Swan's top minimonitor loudspeaker, and it's available exclusively and importer direct from The Audio Insider. Consider it for your high-value audiophile system, or as a compliment to your D2,1se-based multichannel system.
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