What is made in Germany? Made in Germany represents the ultimate, Made in Germany represents exquisiteness, and Made in Germany represents infinite possibilities. "Made in Germany" represents the golden sign of the German manufacturing industry. Speaking of German brands, how many German brands can ordinary Chinese people remember? Porsche , Mercedes-Benz? BMW? Audi? public? Bosch? Siemens ? If you like photography, before Huawei teamed up with Leica , have you heard of the German Leica camera ? Even many photography enthusiasts only know , Nikon, Canon and Sony, but they don’t know Leica, let alone that the originator of 135 frame is the originator of digital cameras. The "full frame" specification of digital cameras was the first to be used by Leica in Germany and became a universal industry for a hundred years. Standard, let alone a lesser-known German Linhofer large-format film camera. In the audio industry, as an audio enthusiast with a certain amount of experience, you can definitely talk about ten or eight of the more common German audio brands, but I believe that eight out of ten are absolutely unimaginable German Physiks (German Palace)!
Yes, some high-end brands are not familiar to the general public, even in the audio industry, but as an audio enthusiast, if you have never experienced the German Physiks, the unique 360 The full-range speaker of the DDD "ice cream cone" that produces sound is like a photographer who has never experienced the satisfaction of pressing the shutter of a Leica rangefinder camera. It may be a pity. It’s not that you have to experience German temple speakers to be an enthusiast.It does not mean that you have to touch a Leica rangefinder camera to understand photography, but if you can and experience it in depth, is it better?
But the German Physiks (German Temple) has a flagship brand with extremely high positioning units in carbon fiber since its birth. I haven’t seen it. I heard that the size and weight are quite considerable, and the price is millions. There is a pair of huge German Physiks sub-flagship speakers on display in the Nuochang Audio Hall of Haiyin Plaza. The price is nearly 300. The German Phyisks PQS-402, the fourth model of the German Phyisks, is priced at more than 800,000 yuan, and the size is not small. Each speaker weighs 165 kilograms! Obviously, this is for super enthusiasts who have requirements for sound and have a good listening environment. The positioning of the DDD 360-degree full-range unit in Germany using carbon fiber is not low. Audiophiles who like the natural, full, and smooth, 360-degree full-range speakers that are like listening to music in front of the stage with no dead-angle diffusion are turned away? Do not! Although the positioning of the German Palace speakers is very high, it is also considered for enthusiasts with various needs. For example, the pair of Unlimited Ultimate floor boxes, which are priced less than 100,000, also use the "ice cream cones" that are exclusive to the German Palace, which is the same as their more advanced speakers. Shaped 360-degree full-range unit, the bottom of the cabinet is equipped with an 8-inch carbon fiber diaphragm woofer that emits sound downwards, but the volume is smaller and the price is more affordable. It’s just that compared to some entry-level bookshelf boxes with a pair of thousands of dollars for some brands, it is still much more expensive for a floor-to-ceiling box with a pair of 10,000 yuan. This is no way, the DDD unit itself is not cheap, plus the exquisite The cabinet is 100% made in Germany, and it is worth the money with this level of sound quality! Highly enthusiastic photographers know that the original German Leica camera Leica lens is very expensive, but in 2015 Leica launched a portable full-frame digital camera LEICA Q ,,This is a portable machine with a fixed lens of 28mmf1.7. It is also made in Germany. With good color and picture quality performance and first-class high-end appearance, LEICA Q and later upgraded second-generation machines have become Leica's single model with the highest sales in recent years! We also jokingly said that Leica buys a lens and gives it to the body. Also, a Leica M series 28mmf1.4 is now licensed for more than 50,000 yuan, and a Leica M10 body is also more than 50,000 yuan, which is more expensive than Leica Q. , And Leica Q can also autofocus. I saw the pair of exquisite floor-to-ceiling boxes in Nuochang’s audition room and asked the staff of Nuochang if the price of the Unlimited Ultimate speakers was more than 100,000. The staff of Nuochang said no, within 100,000, feeling German Physiks German Palace here buy DDD units to give away woofers and cabinets, right?
span11 span Repeatedly, DDD is the abbreviation of Dick Dipole Driver, designed by mathematician and engineer Peter Dick as early as 1980. Although most audio companies thought Peter Dick's plan was too crazy, and the technical problems of the year were difficult to commercialize, they all declined Peter Dick. It was not until ten years later that Maxima finally met Bole. At the time, Holger Mueller, the president of Manhattan Acustik, a company focused on manufacturing speakers, expressed a keen interest in this design and invested in a new factory to produce this speaker unit. This is German Physiks. . However, the implementation of the design concept to the production of the final product requires repeated experiments and tests. After two years of repeated research and experiments in the world, the DDD unit is truly industrialized.In 1992, the first pair of 360-degree full-range speakers with global patents was born-Borderland.
The structure of the DDD unit solves many problems of the traditional cone-disc speaker unit and constitutes a 360-degree full diffusion performance, so it can simulate the way the musical instrument sounds in free space to the greatest extent and improve the sense of space , A better sense of presence can be obtained under the premise of a sense of sound field.
360-degree voice is not difficult to understand, but what is full range? This is the most powerful part of the DDD unit of the German Palace. I have seen a pair of bookshelf boxes in the German Palace, using a single "ice cream cone", without any other woofer, can emit 70Hz~24kHz full range frequency, and under the condition of reasonable volume of the sound box, the low frequency of the DDD unit can be lower Diving to 5Hz, it is the widest full-range unit with the widest frequency in the industry so far, let alone a 360-degree omnidirectional sound. Since the lower limit of the replay frequency is sufficiently low, it is easier to avoid the sensitive frequencies of the human ear, and the connection with the subwoofer becomes easier, and the DDD unit has a high carrying power, and there is almost no need to worry about damage under normal use. The DDD unit relies on the up and down pressure vibration of the "ice cream cone" cone-shaped diaphragm to drive the air to emit sound. The smaller the diameter of the diaphragm, the lower the replay frequency, and the larger the diameter, the higher the replay frequency.
Is the pair of German Palace Unlimited Ultimate speakers reviewed today familiar to you? right,Its appearance is the same as the Unlimited MKII reviewed by our magazine before. It can be said to be the ultimate version of Unlimited MKII. Compared with the previous generation, there are many unique small acoustic processors attached to the inner cavity of the box to reduce the low frequency. The inside the box resonates . As for the improvement of the speaker unit and frequency divider, the manufacturer did not give too much explanation.
Come here, let’s listen to this pair of Unlimited Ultimate speakers that buy DDD speakers and send bass and cabinets. It is matched with the German AA PLAYER 1 plus the German Palace’s own "Emperor" "Merge the power amplifier. Here is a small episode. This pair of speakers is still brand new and just unboxed. Although I listened to a lot of music software in the small audition room of about 30 square meters in Nuochang that day, I have heard that the DDD unit of the palace has to be burned. It will take a while for the sound to enter the best state. I will talk about my views on this new pair of speakers. There is still a distance from the best state of the previous generation of products that I have heard before. In terms of my listening standards, the middle and high frequencies The sound is still relatively tough, although the superiority and quality of the DDD unit is there, and some chamber music is played, the vocal sound is also quite good, with good smoothness and fineness. The 3D stage space is what it is good at Yes, they are all pretty good, but they are not amazing enough. When playing piano and large-format symphony, there will be a strange sound in the middle and low frequency. I communicated with the staff of Nuochang, and he said that I will go over today as soon as I unboxed it. I just picked it up and listened. I said that if you cook for another week, I will come over and listen. Sure enough, I listened to Unlimited Ultimate again for the second time, and the sound changed a lot!
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The album "Pain and Happiness" is an album that I like very much.Although pop music cannot test the true low frequency, this record neglected by many people in Chinese pop music is a very good album for testing positioning and vocals and instruments. The singing, arranging, performance and recording are all very good. , The test sound system is relatively objective. The first track of the album "Pain and Happiness", although I know that the sound field and positioning are also made in the studio, but because I am so familiar with it, I have heard it on various systems and often play with friends who play guitar. I often use it to test the timbre, mid-to-high frequency overtones and spatiality, image size, etc. of guitar masters Jiang Jianmin's wonderful guitar performance. The colors and layers of the different tones of cymbals and ride cymbals are so richly interpreted. Xu Dechang is a rare opponent. Although the diaphragm of the DDD unit is large but very thin, it has lightning-like response speed. When interpreting the smallest cymbals, I am serious. Falling into thinking, what is the detail that can be heard easily. In the German palace, the Unlimited Ultimate speaker is only positioned as the entry level of his home, but it can interpret the sense of space that many two or three hundred thousand speakers can’t restore. Just a song of Qi Qin’s "Pain and Happiness" can feel this pair The box is great value for money, it is really a speaker for buying a DDD unit!
The first movement of the Roman festival "Arena" of Respicki's "Rome Trilogy" performed by the group is a recording I often use recently for reference. It starts with several sounds of timpani with huge energy and very strong sense. And this drum sound can not only test the bass, but also test the positioning. The location of the timpani is very important. According to the size of the room and the position of the box, if the speakers are replaced with other non-DDD units of similar price, I think the distance and space of the timpani will lose to a third of the depth of Unlimited Ultimate.Because I have been to this room many times and heard about other boxes. The "Racing Field" brass band group has strong penetrating but round and gorgeous brass music, magnificent orchestra. The unison bursting scene is very enjoyable. Unlimited Ultimate has full frequency bands without compression and full and high-density sound texture. I was impressed. How wide and deep is the deep and wide stage space? Let’s put it this way, speakers of the same price or two or three times higher than other types of non-360-degree sound-emitting units want to restore the same sound field width and depth. Repetitive positioning is the only way to do it. The German Unlimited Ultimate only takes ten minutes to complete the positioning, because its full-range 360-degree diffusion has no dead angles, and there is no off-axis response problem at all. From 200Hz to 24KHz, the sound we hear is the same. There is no need to precisely adjust the so-called projection angle. In terms of the convenience of positioning, the wide and depth of the sound field is already superior!
Although I also listened to other different types of music that day, UnlimitedUltimate, the German palace hall, was able to restore the surprising sense of stage atmosphere and the wide depth and sound color that could not be achieved in the same price box. On the one hand, it presents a neutral, accurate and slightly warmer tone, which is the type that most domestic enthusiasts like. In fact, what I want to hear more is what kind of sound performance it will be under a cheaper front end after it is cooked. For example, try it with a German AA merger... I almost forgot, this is a pair of German Palace Unlimited Ultimate boxes. In addition to the beautiful birdeye wood veneer piano paint, carbon fiber, black and white, there are also a variety of cute colorful paint exteriors, such as red, yellow, and lake blue. They are very suitable for home color matching. I believe family members move home. Would like it. It seems that the Germans are also getting more and more romantic, including the German Leica camera, which used to be only black and silver. In recent years, it has also launched a variety of color exterior leather...
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