Most Exciting High-end Audio Product -Polymer Logic Speakers w/ 10 carat diamond and 24K gold
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue34/awards2.htm"It is very rare in our industry when a product comes along and establishes a new level of playback performance. Usually as reviewers we get excited about subtle improvements that take us a step closer to musical realism or perhaps increase the level of listening enjoyment. Well, the Polymer Logic is a loudspeaker that achieves something that is in no way subtle, it completely shatters everything that I have previously experienced from any other loudspeaker system regardless of price. The performance from the Polymer Logic is not just jaw-dropping (this term is just one of many superlatives used by reviewers), but suffice it to say that I simply lack the audio vocabulary to express just how significant is the increase in playback realism. Astonishingly, after giving these speakers a rave review and having purchased the review pair, everything that I reported previously now sounds even better. As it turns out these diamond drivers benefit need a long break-in time and just keep getting better. Scary.
It is important to note that the performance offered by the Polymer Logic is not just in the realm of subjective opinion. This is the only loudspeaker in the world that reproduces the entire critical midrange by a single diamond cone, a material that behaves like a theoretically ideal piston.
When you factor in the fact that the Polymer Logic retails for $24,990/pr and easy outperforms any loudspeaker that costs over $100,000 you have the most exciting high-end audio product of my entire life as an audiophile. The diamond midrange in the Polymer Logic is only featured in one other loudspeaker, the Marten Design Coltrane Supreme which has a retail price of $250,000/pr. How is this possible? I have no idea, it remains a mystery to me how this company is not losing money on every pair sold."
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue34/polymer_logic.htmhttp://www.polymeraudio.com/technology.htmlThe Foundation ...…starts with the midrange. Because the human ear has evolved to perceive even the slightest sound aberrations in the midrange, a loudspeaker must reproduce these frequencies with perfect precision to achieve sound that can “fool” the brain/ear interface into believing that it is listening to a live performance - and the Polymer Logic does this with astonishing accuracy. No matter how well engineered, all loudspeakers on the market today fail in this parameter as they are manufactured from conventional cone materials that inevitably suffer from flexing, bending, and breakup at various midrange frequencies. Therefore these transducers cannot reproduce the exact excitation of the voice-coil and the electromagnetic system that is moving the cone. In addition, the low stiffness and therefore low sound velocity through these materials causes phase shift between the various mechanical parts that make up the transducer leading to further non-linearity and loss of realism from the sound system.
What led to the development of the Polymer Logic was the fascination with the idea of what would happen if a theoretically perfect material is implemented in a perfectly executed design combining only the best mechanical, acoustic, and electronic components at the limits of current understanding in loudspeaker engineering. That perfect material is diamond – a material that has nearly infinite stiffness, vanishing density, and extraordinary stiffness-to-mass ratio. It is a material that does not bend or flex and would allow the cone to behave like a perfect piston responding instantaneously to information supplied by the electro-magnetic system.
It goes without saying that creating a
midrange cone made from a single piece of pure diamond is an extraordinarily complex process and cannot be compared to diamond tweeters now appearing in some flagship designs. Unlike stamped polypropylene, carbon fiber, or aluminum cones which are produced in hundreds of pieces per minute and cost only pennies to make, the diamond cone is created one at a time and spends over a week in a plasma reactor. Due to a large surface area, unlike the diamond tweeter membrane, the midrange cone often cracks during the manufacturing process and has to be made again. This also adds considerably to the manufacturing time and cost. On average, it takes approximately 6 weeks to manufacture a pair of diamond midrange drivers used in the Polymer Logic.
If you are looking for the best sound reproduction you owe it to yourself to hear the Polymer Logic with the diamond midrange driver. Nearly all electronic and mechanical artifacts are gone and music is presented effortlessly in three-dimensional relief. The reaction from listeners, even experienced audiophiles who already own the best systems, is that of shock at the realization that an entirely new level of sound reproduction is possible.
TWEETERThe tweeter selected for the Polymer Logic is the French Supravox TG1. In extensive listening tests against well known flagship tweeters it outperformed the Dynaudio Esotar, Scan Speak Revelator, Seas Crescendo, Focal Audiom, and several state-of-the-art ribbon tweeters. The TG1 is a special design that uses a
titanium dome covered in a pure layer of solid gold and has very interesting horizontal and vertical dispersion characteristics. The TG1 has amazing detail retrieval that is possible only from the best titanium domes but with softness, smoothness, and silkiness that outperforms the best soft dome designs. Particularly impressive is the sense of spaciousness, ambiance, and layers of air – very much like the way high frequencies sound in a live performance. We believe that the Supravox TG1 is quite possibly the best high frequency transducer in the world and couples seamlessly to the pure diamond cone midrange.
