PMC launched a new speaker to their range called FACT 8. Set to retail at £4500 and seen for the first time in Munich High End Show the new FACT 8 uses a new hand-built 14cm mid/bass units with an extended version of the company’s Advanced Transmission Line tuning system.
Within the brushed, anodised rear panel of each loudspeaker, are a set of audiophile switches that allow precise and individual tailoring of its low- and high-frequency response, thereby ensuring a superlative sonic balance in almost any room and with any source component. From the calibrated flat setting there are subtle and effective adjustments, for high frequency +/- 2dB and low frequency -3dB and -6dB. Painstaking attention has been given to the control circuit layout and components to provide this no compromise solution.
A rear panel switch ‘fact control’ allows +/-2dB adjustment of the treble, and -3dB or -6dB bass cut, making them easier to place in the room. A biwirable/biampable crossover is also used, with the terminals being silver-plated.
The slimline cabinet, with a front baffle just 15.5cm wide, is designed for wide dispersion and excellent imaging, and the speakers sit on hand-polished chromed ingot outrigger feet, with a choice of spike or ball feet.
The enclosure is veneered inside and out, and comes in a choice of four finishes: Rich Walnut, Natural Oak, Tiger Ebony and Graphite Poplar. A grille is supplied, and is fixed to the front by using rare earth magnets.
The FACT 8 features twin hand-built five and half inch bass units that have been formulated with a new feather light stiff-matte doping process and an excursion braking system that subtly controls the maximum extension allowing consistent, reliable, high level performance. Combining these propriety drivers within a newly formulated ATL provides a phenomenal bass extension at all levels and a beguiling untainted mid.
The high frequency is capably handled by a high-tech wide surround, ferrofluid cooled, SONOMEX soft-domed tweeter. SONOMEX is an especially light and phenomenally uniform pre-coated material which has vast advantages over individually treated domes with no variations in coating thickness and in turn no variations in response. This way consistency, efficiency and matching are maximised and guaranteed. This radically shaped devise with its huge surround combines the wide dispersion of a three-quarter inch dome with the low end response and higher sensitivity of a one inch dome and with the addition of its perforated grille further increases dispersion and a vast ‘sweet spot’ making ideal positioning effortless.