MM de Capo i by REFERENCE 3A

The " i " designation in the new MM de Capo i simply means improved but could easily mean incomparable. It is now even more refined. As with the award winning original model, at the heart of MM de Capo i is the hand built carbon fiber main driver. It is now even faster and better controlled.

The new high frequency unit is sonically more transparent and detailed than the original. It now has no ferro-fliuds and a much lower resonant frequency. It now integrates even better with the main driver.

The cabinet dimensions are unchanged. Critical bracing points have been optimized to achieve an even more silent cabinet and less interference with the drivers. The MM de Capo i is avaiable in two standard finishes: Natural Maple and Red Maple. Premium Piano Grade High Gloss is our stunning premium finish. They are all flawless and in stock.

DETAILS
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SPECIFICATIONS
  • Input power 3 to 150 Watts RMS
  • Efficiency/sensitivity: 92 dB/1 Watt/1m.
  • Impedance: 8 Ohms.
  • Frequency response: 42 Hz. - 20.000 Hz. /3 dB.
  • Phase: Almost constant at +/- 10 degrees.
  • Distortion: 0.3 %at 1.000 Hz./ 94 dB.
  • Dimensions: 38 cm/15" high X 28 cm./11" wide
    X 33 cm./13" deep
  • Weight: 13 kg./27 lbs. each.
TWEETER
  • Custom designed and pair matched.
  • 27 mm. textile dome,
  • Non-resonant rear chamber.
  • Un-damped, dual suspension.
  • Low resonant frequency, 600Hz,
  • Cut off frequency 300Hz.
  • High pass frequency, 6dB/octave
MAIN DRIVER
  • 8 ¼" diameter, designed and build by Reference 3A.
  • Designed not to require cross-overs.
  • Very wide frequency response.
  • Hyper exponential shaped woven carbon cone.
  • Exclusive Vibra-Puck treated driver structure.
  • Precisely shaped phase plug.
REVIEWS & AWARDS

Reference 3A is happy to announce that
the MM De Capo i speakers have received:

The Editor's Choice & Product Of the Year, 2002
Hi - Fi Plus Magazine, UK.

The Golden Ear Award 2000
The Absolute Sound

If you would like to read the A.S. review click here...

NEW! review from Stereophile Magazine:
•"In every other meaningful way, the Reference 3A MM de Capo i is as unforgettable as your favorite song,.... ",
•"This is one hell of a nice thing....",
•"What accounts for that sort of performance?"
STEREOPHILE/ EQUIPMENT ROOM/ Art Dudley

• "I could easily live with this," ... 
• "You'd have to be tied to your chair not to react to this,"...
• "For the second recording in a row, Reine put aside her
   notebook and simply listened." ...
• "You can hear that lineage with every note it plays."
   UHF MAGAZINE

• "For "only" $2,500/pr these piano black mini-monitors are the
   best value in their category in my opinion. Nothing I have heard
   over the past years comes close to being so harmonically right
   and offer great speed and detail."...
• "there is a great deal of rightness to the sound of instruments." ...
• "Here we have a modern day mini-monitor classic."
   ENJOY THE MUSIC

• "No crossover means being joined at the hip and when you lock
   onto an amp that does not have current limiting circuitry like the
   Edge's, you will be shocked. I'm talking snare drum in the chest." ...
• "This is the speaker I've been looking for five years." ...
• "Upon the first couple of passages heard with the MM DeCapo-i,
   I new this was a winner." ... 
• "Value Rating: 5 STAR  Overall Rating: 5 STAR"
  AUDIO REVIEW

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