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Astonishingly deep and resolute bass, seamlessly integrated to a pristine treble range, delivering a relentlessly engaging musicality from a tiny enclosure accurately describes our compact monitor Dulcet. Loudspeaker enclosures made in smaller dimensions are inherently more rigid, reducing box resonance dramatically. Driver components mounted closer will naturally create a better point source to propagate more uniform sound waves.

Smaller cabinet size improves cabinet diffraction effects for enhanced clarity. However, most compact loudspeakers have some sonic traits that are commonly accepted as natural limitations. They lack lower bass fundamentals, dynamics, efficiency and they generally sound small.In keeping with the characteristically full and dynamic REFERENCE 3A sound, a radically new approach was implemented to design our Dulcet from the ground up. All commonly known design parameters were re-evaluated over an extensive period of time.

All alternative methods known or newly created by us were applied. Often ignoring commonly known physical limitations and natural obstacles, a thoroughly new main driver was developed. This amazing four-inch driver fulfills our objective of achieving unusually deep and articulate bass. REFERENCE 3A DULCET will set new standards for compact monitor loudspeaker designs in achieving uncommonly full and rich sound.

As with all our other REFERENCE 3A designs, Dulcet's main driver is also directly coupled to amplifiers. Without crossover components interfering with musical signal flow the sound is responsive, fast and articulate. A simple, very high quality high pass filter is used on the treble unit for better integrated sound. The cabinets are constructed to be very rigid with critical bracing. The massive motor assembly of the driver is mechanically grounded to damp and reduce superfluous vibration energy. All the drivers are broken in for at least 100 hours for meaningful pair matching to very close tolerances.