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“Music is Everyman´s Right.” Everyman´s Right = Age-old code of behaviour, which allows everyone to enjoy nature´s offerings regardless of legal ownership. Most forests in Finland are privately owned yet we all have equal rights to enjoy them. Nature´s importance in providing direct livelihood has decreased. Yet in the hectic modern world it is more important than ever as a peaceful haven. Music is like nature. It allows us to relax and recharge our batteries. Music belongs to all of us. Music is Everyman´s Right. Those who prefer movies to music should remember that the human voice is the greatest musical instrument.
Anssi Hyvönen Proprietor, Amphion Loudspeakers Ltd.
Amphion customer promise Amphion creates loudspeaker solutions which enrich people’s lives by providing a means to experience the beauty of pure natural sound in their own homes, - at any time - without unreasonable financial sacrifices.
Loudspeakers in your home Pure sound should be part of everyday life. In order to achieve this, loudspeakers must become part of the home interior. We at Amphion do everything we can to achieve this – everything except compromise on sound quality.
�I am grateful to you for these wonderful little giants.� Joe Cali, Producer of singer songwriter Lori Lieberman www.lorilieberman.com/bio.html
Pure room acoustics Room acoustics have a major impact on how the room sounds and what it feels like. To produce a purer, more natural sound despite changing room acoustics Amphion uses innovative acoustic engineering called U/D/D technology (Uniformly Directive Diffusion).
Thanks to U/D/D the dispersion of Am-
lows your loudspeakers to work together
The positive effects of U/D/D technology
phion loudspeakers is more uniform and
with your room, not against it. This re-
are most evident with ‘real world’ loud-
evenly controlled throughout a large fre-
sults in increased clarity, especially in the
speaker placements. ‘Real world’ refers
quency band. U/D/D reduces the room´s
midrange.
to situations where loudspeakers are
adverse effects on final sound, which al-
placed in the room, which is also used for
daily living. This often leads to less than
naturalness, even when placed close to
enjoy the positive atmospheric effects a
optimal loudspeaker placement.
the back wall or other boundaries.
purer sound has on your room, and your home.
Thanks to U/D/D´s controlled disper-
Amphion´s experience and sound knowl-
sion the speakers keep their clarity and
edge in room acoustics allows you to
Pure driver Integration The biggest challenge in loudspeaker design is to integrate the chosen drivers into one seamless product. Amphion’s proprietary waveguide provides an elegant and effective solution as it improves the coupling between tweeter and woofer. This superior integration over a broad frequency-band leads into a purer, more natural sound. The human sensory system is precise at detecting variations of the time constants in music. Amphion´s innovative acoustical engineering makes electrical time corrections unnecessary. Result is a more natural sound reproduction, with deeper emotional involvement and relaxation.
“By sounding right, we get things feeling right” Anssi Hyvönen Proprietor, Amphion Loudspeakers Ltd.
3D HD - For Your Ear The secret of Amphion´s superior 3D imaging lies in using a tweeter & waveguide combination, where we human´s can hear best. The tweeter with its extremely stiff diaphragm and low mass is easily controllable. Amphion’s solution increases transient speed, which together with very low distortion leads into an airy, open sounding musical experience. Unrivalled palpable three dimensionality and pinpoint imaging allows “seeing” your favorite musicians on stage, or admiring the acoustics of world famous concert halls. Amphion´s sonic 3D HD presentation adds greatly to the magical illusion of “being there”. The best part of this 3D HD is that there is already plenty of existing software for you to enjoy.
“In particular, classical concerts are perfectly reproduced with a clear revelation of the room acoustics in various concert halls. It was fascinating to be able to recognize the acoustics of the concert hall so precisely on the Amphions and to hear the difference in room acoustics between the (perhaps too) dry sound from the new Danish concert hall and the more open sound from the famous Berlin hall.” Peter Plaschke Denmark Amphion Krypton2
Rauno Tikkanen Clarinettist-conductor from Sibelius-Academy of Finland. Rauno has been finetuning his craft under Osmo Vänskä & Jorma Panula. Rauno likes the clarity of his clarinet through his Amphions (Rauno has recorded an album God Bless the Child with organ master Kalevi Kiviniemi, www.kalevikiviniemi.com)
Human voice – the great musical instrument we all know Human voice is perfect loudspeaker evaluation material due to its familiarity. Amphion´s unrivalled midrange clarity and speech intelligibility along with an unstressed, pure and natural voice band are achieved by seamless driver integration and carefully executed natural balance. Listening to realistically reproduced human voices is like music to your ears. In addition to obvious benefits with movies and music, Amphion´s unrivalled voice band contributes greatly to voice books and learning related applications.
Turn the volume down – and still hear everything The demands of daily life often leave only the “after-hours” to calm down. Hearing unstressed natural sound becomes exceedingly important when one is constantly bombarded with information. Like each and everyone of us are. Amphion´s unstrained clarity and speech intelligibility remain unchanged even at surprisingly low listening levels. This brings more enjoyment to those late night movie or music sessions. Pure and unstrained low-level sound reproduction also offers a great way to enjoy high quality audio signals present in normal TV and radio programs. The coherent and focused soundfield created by Amphion´s controlled dispersion is a blessing when you want to move around while enjoying your music. It also allows you to improve your home’s atmosphere by playing something quietly in the background.
”This one really feels like me and sounds like me.”
Erja Lyytinen on her new album Voracious Love. Amphion Argon3´s were used in the recording process. Voracious Love is published by German blues label Ruf Records, who in addition to Erja promotes artist like Jeff Healey and Jack Bruce. More from www.erjalyytinen.com
Music´s miraculous constructive powers are often described by Amphion’s story from Greek mythology. Amphion built walls around the city Thebes just by playing his golden lyre.
Just as before, Amphion´s goal is to fortify our lives against the hostile environment. Since 1998 Amphion Loudspeakers of Finland has been designing and manufacturing loudspeakers which are made based on the requirements of human hearing and demands of everyday living. Amphion develops and manufactures products which allow us to experience music´s emotive powers in our own homes. Something we may need more now than ever before.
Our award winning products are made in Finland.
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