Corinium

Born from Acoustic Energy's desire to establish new standards in sound, design and value.

Ground Breaking Design
By tearing up their previous rule book and starting with a blank sheet of paper, they’ve examined each area of music reproduction over the past three years.

Exquisite in Sound & Design
All their groundbreaking new developments in drivers and crossovers are housed in a beautifully curved and exquisitely finished cabinet enclosure.

Why Corinium?
Acoustic Energy sat down with Managing Director Designer Mat Spandl to discuss the CORINIUM from conception, through design and production.

Tweeter
Building on the success of their carbon fibre dome on the 500 series, they identified the need to use an even lighter dome for the Corinium to maximise the transient response of the system. So, Acoustic Energy searched for a material lighter than carbon fibre and subsequently sourced a new soft dome material. This newly developed tweeter design has now proven to lower colouration, increase delicate high-speed transients and reproduce the very finest detail and refinement.

Mid and Bass Drivers
At the heart of the Corinium is the midrange drive unit. Covering 5 octaves it’s the key element which produces most of the sound from the loudspeaker system. The new carbon fibre cone and surround helps provide specific tonal qualities Acoustic Energy were targeting for this speaker... offering the most natural sound and realistic musical performance. The extra width of the Corinium cabinet allowed them to house a slightly larger bass driver. They went back to basics to develop a brand-new bass alignment that combines weight, speed and slam to produce a natural, realistic sound from what’s still a fairly compact loudspeaker system. In conjunction, they developed a brand new 165mm bass driver to produce a big, powerful, controlled and natural bass sound.

Crossover
Optimised for best transient performance, their 3-way crossover blends the power output of each transducer to provide a rich, tonally balanced sound. High quality components are used throughout including air core inductors, metalized polypropylene film capacitors and metal oxide resistors. The crossover is connected to the drive units using audiophile grade internal wiring which features a patented arrangement of conductors to give the best possible musical detail and dynamic expression.

Cabinet
All these ground-breaking new drive unit and crossover developments are housed in a beautifully curved, exquisitely finished inert enclosure. The hybrid ‘Resonance Suppression Composite’ (RSC) cabinets have a minimum thickness of 22mm and vary up to 50mm for optimal performance. The 4° tilt improves the time alignment of sound to listener, whilst the 6mm ultra rigid aluminium front baffle firmly houses the drivers and isolates any cabinet resonances from the listening environment.