Cabasse Debuts Alcyone Satellite Speaker At CEDIA

StJohn Group to Market Ultra-Compact, Sphere Featuring Innovative Technology

September 5, 2007

Cabasse, a legendary, world-class specialist in the design and manufacture of innovative, premium loudspeakers, announced the Alcyone, an exciting new compact loudspeaker to the North American Market. In the tradition of other spherical models from the famed French loudspeaker maker, Alcyone is a satellite speaker designed for use in either high quality music or home theater systems. Cabasse offers the Alcyone in a complete 5.1 system consisting of a matching Santorin 17 active subwoofer with 6.5” driver, 200 watt built-in amplifier and five satellites plus a full set of cables for easy setup. MSRP for the complete 5.1 system will be $1,059. Alcyone will be shipping in the U.S. starting this October in choice of Black or White finishes and optional matching stands ($350 pr MSRP). Weighing in at a mere pound and a half and measuring only 4” in diameter, the robust Alcyone boasts remarkable peak power handling of 350 watts. Yet with an impressive sensitivity rating of 91dB and friendly 8 ohm impedance, the new Cabasse sphere can be easily driven by modestly powered amplifiers. The spherical design of the Alcyone offers the ideal enclosure -- highly rigid and free from internal standing waves. Fitted with the same, smart magnetic mounting device as the award-winning Cabasse iO2, the Alcyone satellite is very easy to position either on a shelf, on wall or on its optional stand. The wide-bandwidth 4” drive unit of the Alcyone satellite has been especially designed by Cabasse engineers to provide high efficiency and smooth, balanced response when utilized in its compact spherical enclosure. Daughter of eOle (Aeolus), like in the Greek mythology, Alcyone has inherited all the typical qualities from a Cabasse system: high efficiency, power handling, transparency, pinpoint imaging and stability of the soundstage. Alcyone is also a star, precisely a combination of stars where the main one is surrounded by little satellites. Alcyone, 1400 times more luminous than the sun, is the brightest of the 500 stars of the Pleiades cluster. John Caldwell, a principal and co-founder of StJohn Group, commented on the launch of the Alcyone, “From dealers to the press, we have enjoyed an excellent response to similar models from Cabasse and this speaker will be no different. The Alcyone gives us Cabasse technology at a highly affordable price point along with a very flexible size for numerous applications.” Since it was founded almost 60 years ago, Cabasse has always been at the cutting edge of experimental acoustic research in order to support its technological innovations. Taking a true scientific approach, Cabasse constantly challenges what has always been taken for granted. Knowledge of acoustics and sound wave transmission, and the way they experience and interpret them, is fundamental to Cabasse in the development of their high quality sound reproduction systems.

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