Hybrid Audio Technologies Clarus Series Components - Manual (Page 5)

Your Clarus system
contains speaker drivers
and passive crossover
networks that were
developed and assembled
with a significant
effort in research and
development, materials
science engineering,
an exhaustive level of
sampling and prototyping,
real-world testing, and
obsessive attention to
detail. The specifications
and parameters of your
Clarus component system
is detailed on these pages.
Tweeter Attributes
Clarus C1
Dome
Small diameter impregnated silk textile dome
with high-loss rubber suspension. The C1 is
a shared technology with the high-end Unity
U1 tweeter, boasting has an impregnated fine
cloth silk dome diaphragm for a linear, smooth
sound, with a high-loss rubber suspension
to damp edge modes and resonances. The
dome is of extremely low mass and is much
less susceptible to mechanical deformation
than other designs, and yet yields a smooth
response over the extent of its range. At Hybrid
Audio Technologies, we feel larger diaphragm
tweeters sound heavy and unremarkable,
lack detail in the upper treble frequencies,
have undesirable polar response, and are
difficult to install. Additionally, we find metal
dome tweeters to be harsh, brittle, and sound
unrealistic. As a small diameter, soft-dome
tweeter, the C1 is the antithesis of large
diaphragm and metal-dome tweeters, for the
effective and convincing reproduction of treble
frequencies.
Voice Coil and Motor System
20mm complimentary design. The motor
assembly is “conventional dynamic”, with a
compact neodymium magnet structure to
ensure a small footprint size and shallow
depth. A perforated grille protects the dome.
The voice coil is ferrofluid cooled and damped,
and the tweeter housing consists of extruded
plastic with three different mounting options
in component set mode, giving the end-user
flexibility in not only placement of the C1 but
also in physical installation.
Crossover Attributes
Clarus C2x
Alignment
Second order L/R (12 dB/octave) filters for low
pass (C5 or C6) and high pass (C1). The C51-2
2-way passive crossover network includes
a Clarus low pass and high pass crossover
frequency of 5,700 Hz at 12 dB/octave. The
C61-2 2-way passive crossover network includes
a Clarus low pass and high pass crossover
frequency of 5,200 Hz at 12 dB/octave. The use
of 12 dB/octave filters on both low pass and
high pass, often not found in speakers in this
price range, minimizes phase-related distortion
typical of crossovers with mismatched orders,
and ensures phase-coherent imaging and
staging. The alignment topology is a shared
technology to the high-end Unity U2x crossover
design and features asymmetrically-aligned
network components.
Network Components
Audiophile grade. The C51-2 and C61-2
passive crossover networks incorporate super
high quality and low tolerance metalized
polypropylene film capacitors for both highpass
and low pass, in concert with air-core inductors,
and low tolerance non-inductive resistors. No
output level switches were used in the passive
crossover design because switches add a
resistive effect and are typically of extremely
low quality. Additionally, “jumper pins” add
an unnecessary pair of splices in the signal
path to the tweeter, and were not included
in our design either. Rather, all tweeter level
adjustments are done on the board level with
dedicated non-inductive resistors; tweeter
attenuation is accomplished by selecting the
appropriate output (-3 dB, 0 dB, or +3 dB)
on the passive crossover circuit board. The
components selected are complimentary and
ensure no notable signal degradation between
the input and output side of the crossovers,
and serve only to filter frequency response,
and not to equalize the input signal. The
network componentry, design, circuitry, and
polyethylene case with transparent cover are
shared technologies to the Unity series, and the
Unity U2x crossover design.
Clarus
Component
Systems
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