Børresen Acoustics
Børresen Z1
The Børresen Z1 speaker amazes – despite its compact size – with its ability to create a three dimensional soundstage that makes even most subtle musical details become transparent. With its uncompromising musicality and its high-resolution capacity, the Z1 provides an excellent authentic listening experience.
Lively standmount
Technologies and Components
Uncompromising performance
The
principle that guided the development of the Z-series loudspeakers was
to provide an uncompromising high-end audio performance with more
conventional components than the 0-Series. The technology behind the
Z-series consists of electronic components that are either adopted from
the 0-series, completely redesigned, or are innovative spin offs
resulting from Børresen Acoustics’ extensive audio research activities.
The Børresen tweeter
Exceptional efficiency.
Elaborate
finite element methods have been applied to linearize and optimize the
magnetic flux field, to facilitate driver movement and to ensure high
efficiency and outstanding linearity.
The efficiency of this
closed ribbon tweeter amounts to an exceptional 94dB and operates from
approximately 2.5 kHz upwards. The moving mass is extremely low at 0.01
grams. The totally concealed tweeter has the capacity to operate at an
incredible speed, which is an absolute prerequisite to unlocking the
most subtle and refined sound details of any kind of music. The enormous
robustness of this tweeter allows it to handle extremely high transient
peaks without any ear fatiguing breakups. No transformers are being
used.
Membrane – Bass/midrange
Impressing stiffness to weight ratio.
The
Børresen membrane consists of a composite of two layers of very thin
carbon on both sides of a 4 mm Nomex honeycomb core. This composite
structure – like the one used in formula 1 type of racing cars –
provides the ultimate combination of stiffness to weight ratio. The
exceptionally low weight of only 5.5 grams allows a very high
acceleration factor in the driver, resulting in both outstanding
resolution and higher efficiency.
Magnet system – Bass/midrange
Conventional principle, unconventional performance.
With
the invention of the patented iron-free driver system in the 0-series,
Børresen Acoustics came to realize that it is possible to reduce
induction to an amazing 0.04 mH, which is approximately 10 times lower
than that of common driver systems. The challenge for manufacturing the
Z-series was to design a new, but less costly driver system with
significantly reduced induction. As a result, Børresen Acoustics
developed a driver with an 8 mm voice coil and an induction of only 0.06
mH. By linearizing the magnetic field, the driver is less affected by
the actual movement and is more easily controlled by the amplifier.
Crossover Z-series
Exclusive components and stability.
The
Z-series is fitted with a parallel crossover configuration using the
same exclusive components from the 0-series. This ensures a very
mechanically stable crossover, which minimizes its own resonance.
Ansuz feet
Resonance control option.
The
adjustable feet of the ground cross plate are designed to be placed on
Darkz resonance control separated by 3 titanium balls. Ansuz Darkz have
been designed to ensure a distinctly better mechanical grounding to the
floor.
