Yamaha’s Soavo-1 has been named European Floor-Standing Speaker 2007-2008 by EISA. Noting that it has an extremely elegant & stylish look the EISA jury praised the speaker’s extremely high level of performance and an authentically “Natural Sound” in the Yamaha tradition.
Here’s a run down of the specs:
Drivers
- Yamaha’s exclusive Advanced PMD diaphragm (woofers and midrange)
- Aluminum dome DC-Diaphragm tweeter
- Edge-wound ribbon wire voice coil
- Spider by Kurt Mueller
- Neodymium midrange magnet
- Carved wooden port
Cabinet
- Non-parallel surfaces
- Three-way mitered construction
- Two-chamber cabinet (woofer and midrange separated by slanted partition) with vertical bracing
- Chamfered tweeter baffle and diecast aluminum tweeter plate
- Birch cabinet with open-pore finish
Networks
- Independent direct crossover connection
- Highest quality parts including Solen capacitor
See the presentation in video at Bristol 2007 on Cinenow.TV