HiVi Home Theater - Manual (Page 5)

The F1HT (Home Theater) is an impressive package.
Starting with the woofers, there are 20. If you want to experience realism in your movies you need to feel the sound, especially
deep bass. This is a lot easier to achieve when the system has lots of woofers. But these are not ordinary woofers. They are
from our D series that we manufacture ourselves. If you look on our web site you will see they have some pretty impressive quali-
ties. The voice coils are huge allowing them to effortlessly produce thundering bass that will raise the hair on the back of your
neck.
While the bass is impressive, we feel a more important quality in home theatre is the midrange, the area of audio spectrum where
the human voice is concentrated.
The F1HT has 20 dome midrange drivers that excel in unraveling the most complex passages in movie dialogue.
Instead of the conventional dome type tweeter, we use a ribbon tweeter to reproduce high frequency sound. The advantage of rib-
bon tweeters over domes in home theater is apparent when you look at the way sound radiates from the driver. A conventional
dome tweeter is fairly directional and projects most of it’s high frequency sound in a narrow cone shaped pattern. Great if your
seated directly in front of the speaker but not if your are at the end of the couch or worse yet, in another chair. Ribbons tweeters
on the other hand disperse sound in a flattened oval shape across a wide listening area. Everybody hears great sound.
The F1HT was designed for those who simply want a better experience than is available at their local theater.
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