Filterlab
27-08-2020, 12:46
Up for sale is my pair of AirPulse A100 active monitors in gloss red. These are staggeringly good speakers, seriously staggeringly good. They are designed by Phil Jones - a name many of you will know well, and a name which is linked to having a bit of a gift for speaker design. I've used them for around 100 hours for checking masters and remasters of my own music, but with my two new businesses about to go global, I have resigned myself to the fact that my days of musicianship are long behind me.
These have 5" woofers and horn-loaded ribbon tweeters, running from two separate TAS5754 Class-D amplifiers, with 10w+10w on the tweeters and 40w+40w on the woofers. That may not sound a lot, but these speakers are really much more powerful than the tech specs suggest.
On the rear panel of the right speaker, there's 2x pairs of RCA inputs allowing a direct feed from any line level source. There's a USB input and an optical input which feed the internal DAC which supports anything up to and including 24/192KHz. There's a subwoofer output too which I had running into my BK Double Gem for a short while - very easy to integrate indeed as the full range is fed through that output.
The volume/input is essentially an infinity dial, and controls the same volume parameters as the remote control, and the subtle bass/treble controls are there as well. Lastly there's the output for the left speaker, cable included obviously. The interconnecting cable is a lot longer than one would normally get with an active speaker at 5m/16ft, and a very high quality cable it is too.
Bluetooth audio streaming directly to the speakers is also possible with the onboard Qualcomm aptX convention supported. Frequency range is 52Hz to 40KHz, and the dimensions are 160mm x 283mm x 255mm. There are rubber feet on the bases.
I bought these on the 18th of April 2020 so they're still within warranty, the receipt is in the box. They are in mint condition, unabused and come with all the accessories (multiple cables, manual, white gloves, cable tie, remote and power cable).
I paid £659 for them, so I'm looking to get £595 including insured postage within the UK. International postage possible but it's completely at the buyer's risk and expense, with the full cost of the international insured postage on top of the asking price.
Don't underestimate the quality of these little'uns. They're far superior to many speakers I've heard of this size and type, with lightning quick response and massive levels of detail. If they don't sell then I'll keep hold of them rather than let them go for pennies, and maybe one day I'll dig them out of a cupboard and say "Oooooh, I remember these!".
Click on the images for the full res versions:
https://i.ibb.co/SQf99Ts/IMG-1018.jpg (https://ibb.co/Jx3MMLB)
https://i.ibb.co/R9ny8ws/IMG-1019.jpg (https://ibb.co/FKvVpTy)
https://i.ibb.co/JnHqy5k/IMG-1020.jpg (https://ibb.co/Tct1bmh)
https://i.ibb.co/YynJMgb/IMG-1021.jpg (https://ibb.co/F0ZcMpn)
https://i.ibb.co/T1x6hqK/IMG-1022.jpg (https://ibb.co/ypctsBh)
https://i.ibb.co/FW667M9/IMG-1023.jpg (https://ibb.co/YW22jM6)
https://i.ibb.co/PTrTr1Y/IMG-1024.jpg (https://ibb.co/z8m8mP5)
https://i.ibb.co/nwr6h3M/IMG-1025.jpg (https://ibb.co/MgnZq8k)
https://i.ibb.co/K6HzsjL/IMG-1026.jpg (https://ibb.co/G7j3Mvt)
https://i.ibb.co/NFWdWtr/IMG-1027.jpg (https://ibb.co/sgsdsbC)
https://i.ibb.co/N1m2w1n/IMG-1028.jpg (https://ibb.co/gvPZsvF)
These have 5" woofers and horn-loaded ribbon tweeters, running from two separate TAS5754 Class-D amplifiers, with 10w+10w on the tweeters and 40w+40w on the woofers. That may not sound a lot, but these speakers are really much more powerful than the tech specs suggest.
On the rear panel of the right speaker, there's 2x pairs of RCA inputs allowing a direct feed from any line level source. There's a USB input and an optical input which feed the internal DAC which supports anything up to and including 24/192KHz. There's a subwoofer output too which I had running into my BK Double Gem for a short while - very easy to integrate indeed as the full range is fed through that output.
The volume/input is essentially an infinity dial, and controls the same volume parameters as the remote control, and the subtle bass/treble controls are there as well. Lastly there's the output for the left speaker, cable included obviously. The interconnecting cable is a lot longer than one would normally get with an active speaker at 5m/16ft, and a very high quality cable it is too.
Bluetooth audio streaming directly to the speakers is also possible with the onboard Qualcomm aptX convention supported. Frequency range is 52Hz to 40KHz, and the dimensions are 160mm x 283mm x 255mm. There are rubber feet on the bases.
I bought these on the 18th of April 2020 so they're still within warranty, the receipt is in the box. They are in mint condition, unabused and come with all the accessories (multiple cables, manual, white gloves, cable tie, remote and power cable).
I paid £659 for them, so I'm looking to get £595 including insured postage within the UK. International postage possible but it's completely at the buyer's risk and expense, with the full cost of the international insured postage on top of the asking price.
Don't underestimate the quality of these little'uns. They're far superior to many speakers I've heard of this size and type, with lightning quick response and massive levels of detail. If they don't sell then I'll keep hold of them rather than let them go for pennies, and maybe one day I'll dig them out of a cupboard and say "Oooooh, I remember these!".
Click on the images for the full res versions:
https://i.ibb.co/SQf99Ts/IMG-1018.jpg (https://ibb.co/Jx3MMLB)
https://i.ibb.co/R9ny8ws/IMG-1019.jpg (https://ibb.co/FKvVpTy)
https://i.ibb.co/JnHqy5k/IMG-1020.jpg (https://ibb.co/Tct1bmh)
https://i.ibb.co/YynJMgb/IMG-1021.jpg (https://ibb.co/F0ZcMpn)
https://i.ibb.co/T1x6hqK/IMG-1022.jpg (https://ibb.co/ypctsBh)
https://i.ibb.co/FW667M9/IMG-1023.jpg (https://ibb.co/YW22jM6)
https://i.ibb.co/PTrTr1Y/IMG-1024.jpg (https://ibb.co/z8m8mP5)
https://i.ibb.co/nwr6h3M/IMG-1025.jpg (https://ibb.co/MgnZq8k)
https://i.ibb.co/K6HzsjL/IMG-1026.jpg (https://ibb.co/G7j3Mvt)
https://i.ibb.co/NFWdWtr/IMG-1027.jpg (https://ibb.co/sgsdsbC)
https://i.ibb.co/N1m2w1n/IMG-1028.jpg (https://ibb.co/gvPZsvF)