EX Speakers

EX Speaker Series

Ex Speaker Series

TAD driver:CST-6001

Witness the Creation of Superior Audio

The first step in the painstaking development of Pioneer's premium speaker series is the creation of an outstanding concentric tweeter/midrange speaker driver. Cutting-edge TAD technologies allow the driver to reproduce exceptionally accurate audio. Every element has been crafted using only the highest-quality materials, ensuring that all frequencies of this wide-range driver are always precise and laser-sharp, boasting extraordinary liveliness and delicacy. Add in the Neodymium magnet's tremendous strength and the result is fluent and consistent sound at a superior level of true-to-life detail, ideal for DVD-Audio and SACD reproduction. Sit back, close your eyes and be swept up in a world of sonic perfection. Open your eyes and you'll see that ideal sound is so much more than just a dream — it can be your reality.

TAD Speaker Design

Only the very best speaker components were considered for Pioneer's new audio masterpiece: the EX Series. So it's no surprise that TAD (Technical Audio Devices) speaker engineering is incorporated into these reference-class drivers. They were crafted with extreme precision by TAD experts, and adhere to their rigorous standards. TAD professional studio monitoring loudspeakers are the first choice in recording studios across the globe. They have set a standard for audio excellence and reliability, as recognized by many world-famous performers and professional sound engineers. The legacy began 30 years ago, and now TAD speakers can be found wherever the highest sound quality is required: studio monitors, concert hall speakers, cinema audio systems and more.

Beryllium Tweeter Diaphragm

The tweeter diaphragm is composed of Beryllium metal, which is extremely light and rigid. This has resulted in an ultra-strong tweeter diaphragm with perfectly solid piston performance. It precisely reproduces the audio signal. This pure and solid performing diaphragm makes Beryllium tweeters ideal for reproducing the high frequencies of DVD Audio and SACD, up to 100 kHz. These revolutionary audio formats recreate sound as it actually exists in the real world, with all its original artistic qualities intact.

Coherent Source Transducer

To ensure that all sound — direct and reflected — arrives at the listening position with identical timbre, the EX Series employs TAD's exclusive CST (Coherent Source Transducer) driver technology. The Beryllium tweeter is mounted in the center of the magnesium midrange driver, allowing the sound directivity to be precisely controlled at all frequencies. The resulting aligned sound delivery is extremely smooth and coherent. Unlike conventional drivers, the problems with phase and off-axis frequency response have been totally eradicated.

TAD driver: TL-0701

Give Deeper Meaning to Sound

The EX Series' meticulously designed bass driver is also packed with TAD technology and first-class components that guarantee superior sound performance even at very low frequencies. The extremely rigid and solid cone structure creates more stable and uniform cone movement, as well as enhanced damping properties. The specially designed basket frame significantly reduces unnecessary reaction and resonance. The ultra-strong Neodymium magnet and large voice coil let you effortlessly achieve a smooth response and a fluid transition to the higher frequency drivers. But a perfect listening experience is about more than the highest quality materials and technologies. It involves your own passions and beliefs, your reactions to the sounds that surround you. Pioneer's EX Series amplifies those passions and provides the most exquisite platform from which to create a new world of special moments.

One-piece Cone and Center Cup

Conventional speaker cones have a separate center cap, to make it easier to attach the cone to the voice coil. However, this design weakens the cone's mechanical integrity. The one-piece construction of the cone and center cap that was created for the EX Series' bass driver, combined with the improved rigidity of the aramid fiber structure, produces a much stiffer and more rigid construction. Unwanted cone resonances are pushed beyond the bass driver's operating range, allowing the cone to accurately pass the coil movement on to the air and significantly improve the accuracy of sound reproduction.

65 mm Voice Coil

Typical bass drivers have relatively small voice coils, which at high power levels, mean reduced power handling ability and loss of efficiency. At a huge 65 mm, the voice coil of the EX Series has considerably greater power handling capability, producing outstanding dynamics, even at high sound levels.

"Air-flow Designed" Basket Frame

The tweeter/midrange and bass drivers of the EX Series feature novel “air-flow designed” basket frames and magnetic circuits that allow for unrestricted airflow behind the cone and around the voice coil. Even at very high power levels, it prevents sound distortion, offering simply pure and accurate sonic pleasure.

Precision Curve

In our eternal quest to offer you unrivalled sound perfection, we have taken innovative design further than ever before. In sound perception, every element must be considered. Even the slightest detail can make a world of difference.With an ideal system, all sounds produced by the loudspeakers arrive at the listeners' ears simultaneously.

If that doesn't happen, the feeling of truly aligned performance is lost. The effect is even worse in multi-channel systems, where the impression of being immersed in the performance space disappears. Pioneer has developed the perfect answer: Perfect Time Alignment Design. This revolutionary 5-channel solution takes you as close to the sensation of sound perfection as you will ever get.

Precision Curve

In traditional speaker systems, several speaker drivers are aligned on a flat front baffle. Because the sounds from each driver reach the listener from different distances, this composition inevitably leads to a small degree of confusion in the overall sound. With Pioneer's EX Series, a revolutionary baffle with a precise curved surface has been realized to solve this problem. This is the “precision curve.” By positioning the speaker drivers on a three-meter radius sphere centered on the listener, the time it takes for the sound to reach the listener's ears from each of the drivers is precisely adjusted.

Coherent Source Transducer

When tweeters and midrange speaker drivers are mounted on a traditional flat baffle, the acoustic centers of the drivers are not aligned. The center of the midrange driver is positioned behind the baffle and the center of the tweeter is placed in the baffle's plane. Some manufacturers try to resolve this problem with a stepped baffle, however this results in unacceptable diffraction and coloring of the sound. TAD cleverly opted to mount the tweeter in the center of the midrange cone, which not only optimizes sound propagation in all directions, but also guarantees time alignment of the drivers.

Slant Layout Enclosure

Enclosures have a backwards slant of eight degrees. This brings the speaker's center gravity of the speaker directly over the center of the base of the speaker. This positioning ensures stability of the cabinet and freedom from the effects of speaker vibrations. In combination with the Precisions Curves, perfect time alignments of the drivers and at the listening position is guaranteed.

Solid, Strong, Superb

With the tweeter/midrange and bass drivers perfected, an equally ingenious enclosure must be created to provide them with a stable base. The EX Series' cabinets are crafted from multiple layers of laminated MDF, ranging from a minimum of 30 mm up to a generous 100 mm, to ensure that they remain inert. Along with the curved baffle and radius edges, these enclosures help create an amazingly realistic sound stage with exceptional clarity and focus.

For a striking appearance, these audiophile-quality speaker systems deserve a fitting finish. The beautiful, trendy, dark wood gives a high-quality finish to the EX Series, which is befittingly called the “highest echelon.”

ABD

Vertical standing waves are a phenomenon that occurs in nearly all speaker enclosures. Responsible for uneven, boomy or sucked out bass response, vertical standing waves generated inside tall floor-standing cabinets are extremely difficult to control. But not for Pioneer. We have developed unique acoustic simulation technology which allows us to calculate the influence of the cabinet's vertical standing waves on the speaker frequency response, taking into account bass driver and port locations. Using this software, the port and bass drivers of the EX Series are placed in the best position to cut this influence to a minimum. We call this new technology ABD (Acoustic Balance Drive). It allows the first vertical standing wave to be totally canceled and the influence of the second one to be significantly reduced. The result is precise and dynamic bass with no low midrange coloration.

 

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