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Aspen FR30 Loudspeaker

Aspen FR30 Loudspeaker

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Absolute Sound Magazine's Ultra High-End Loudspeaker of the year!
Our goals for the FR30 were to design and build a state-of-the-art full-range loudspeaker with extraordinarily low distortion, effortless reproduction, seamless tonality, and exquisite beauty.

Our highest expectations have been exceeded.

The Aspen FR30 represents the culmination of 50 years of industry experience; learning in intimate detail what works and what does not; what it takes for a loudspeaker to disappear and leave only the magic of the music; designing a no-compromise phase-correct crossover; constructing a cabinet that does not color the sound; crafting a near-flat impedance curve for driving the speakers with any power amplifier, and when not even the most advanced driver manufacturer's products are good enough to meet our exacting standards, designing woofers, radiators, tweeters, and midranges from scratch. In all respects, the FR30 will transcend your expectations of what it means to be called a reference loudspeaker.

No longer do you have to compromise.

Breathtaking to listen to, beautiful to behold. The Aspen FR30.
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Literally Nothing Like It

If you want to make uniquely beautiful art, you have to start by creating your own paints. That’s why for the FR30’s, the decision to custom build every component was an easy one. The result is something that is truly a one-of-a-kind listening experience.
  • Design

    Designing and building a new loudspeaker is both the easiest and hardest engineering challenge in all of high-fidelity. On the one hand, anyone can go online and buy a few drivers and bang together a box to make decent sound. On the other hand, the most difficult task in all of high-performance audio is crafting a seamless phase-correct output from two or more driver technologies. Over nearly a century of loudspeaker designs, few models have ever achieved legendary status. The FR30 joins the ranks of a rare handful of true full-range speakers that can honestly cover the frequency range of 28Hz to beyond 20kHz with grace, dynamics, slam, and low distortion. What's captured on the disc is exactly what you'll hear with a greater resolution than most have ever experienced. Grace, beauty, PRaT, power, and a musicality that is rare amongst 6 figure offerings from other manufacturers await owners of the Aspen FR30. That this speaker is financially within reach of many makes it a miracle.

  • Application

    Loudspeakers are part of the family. With their presence, they grace our homes and living areas by bringing the joy of music into our lives. Unlike the electronics that drive them, to perform their best most loudspeakers depend on proper placement and optimized room parameters. The Aspen FR30, however, is designed to more easily fit into any living environment and perform at their best with a minimum of setup hassles and a maximum of options. Using the rear-panel adjustments, FR30 owners can place their speakers where they best fit into the decor with nothing more than the flick of the baffle-step switch, or the turn of the rear tweeter control. While the FR30, like all high-performance speakers, appreciates some breathing room between them and the front wall, these unique rear-panel controls offer users greater flexibility of placement without sonic compromise. Using the included step-by-step guide and CD, setup, from unboxing to playing music, happens easily in a few short hours.

    Technology

    By far the most important piece in the HiFi chain is the loudspeaker. If the speaker cannot reproduce what's it is fed from the electronic chain, the missing musical information is forever lost. To achieve all that music demands, over the years loudspeaker designers have tried to leverage every trick in the book: electrostats for details, conventional drivers for dynamics, planars for transparency, ribbons, domes, horns, open baffles, bipoles, dipoles. The list is endless and the choices and their inevitable sonic compromises daunting. With close to 50 years under our collective belts, we at PS Audio determined to design the perfect loudspeaker. Our strategy would be to combine the best of all possible driver and crossover technologies in a single coherent design. We would call it the FR30. It would have unquestioned dynamics. It would be full range and capable of being driven by just about any amplifier. Its high-frequency drivers would have lower mass than the air they were driving and the speed and clarity of the best electrostats. Its midrange driver would be so transparent and uncolored as to be unnoticeable. And our FR30 would never be shy when it came to the low end. With 8 woofers supported by 8 high compliance passive radiators, in-room bass response would be nothing short of legendary.

    • FULL RANGE 3-WAY SYSTEM
    • 88 dB SENSITIVITY
    • TWO 2.5" PLANAR RIBBON TWEETERS
    • 10" PLANAR RIBBON MIDRANGE
    • FOUR 8" LOW DISTORTION HIGH EXCURSION WOOFERS
    • FOUR 10" LOW DISTORTION HIGH EXCURSION BASS RADIATORS
    • REAR TWEETER LEVEL CONTROL
    • BAFFLE STEP ADJUSTMENT FOR BEST SPEAKER PLACEMENT
    • FLAT IMPEDANCE CURVE FOR EASY AMPLIFIER LOAD
    • SMOOTH AND FULL OFF AXIS RESPONSE
    • IN-ROOM BASS RESPONSE TO 20hz @ -6db
    • TWO PIECE CABINET FOR EASY SETUP
    • ADJUSTABLE FEET
    • EASY TO POSITION FOR BEST PERFORMANCE
    • HEAVY INTERNAL BRACING FOR LOW CABINET VIBRATION
    • CUSTOM FILM CAPACITORS & PREMIUM AIR-CORE INDUCTORS
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    Specifications - Aspen FR30 Loudspeaker

    Color Options Pearl White, Sable Black
    Enclosure Type Two piece – Sealed upper cabinet mid-tweeter module, Passive radiator lower cabinet (4 10” side-firing passive radiators)
    High Frequency Transducer 2 x 2.5” planar magnetic with Teonex diaphragm
    Mid Frequency Transducer 10” planar magnetic with Teonex diaphragm
    Low Frequency Transducer 4 x 8” woofers, cast frame, aluminum cone, 12lb advanced magnet structure
    Crossover Frequency 400 Hz, 2500 Hz – LR4
    Sensitivity (2.83V @ 1M) 88 dB
    Nominal Impedance 4 ohm (3.6 ohm minimum impedance)
    Recommended Amplifier Power 100-600W
    Frequency Response 23Hz-20kHz (-6dB) half space, 20 Hz (-6dB) in-room
    Dimensions (HxWxD) 60.5” x 16” x 25.75” with base (10” width not including base)
    Net Weight 230 lbs (104.5 kg)
    • Paul Miller and Andrew Everard, Hi-Fi News

      "Having read about the development of these speakers literally for years, in various online postings, I was both keen to hear them and also filled with a little trepidation that they'd not live up to expectation. I needn't have worried: it only took a few tracks to realise that the Aspen FR30 is every bit a sensational design and - to cut to the chase - nothing short of one of the high-end bargains of the moment, making some much pricier speakers seem just a little bit silly..."

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    • Stefan Gawlick, HiFidelity

      "Even if we didn't get to try them in our usual conditions, our visit clearly showed: the PS Audio Aspen FR30 are impressive in practically every aspect. With their elegant design, they have what it takes to conquer a prominent place in the living room, despite their size. Their incredibly natural, dynamic sound then seems to flow effortlessly from the gigantic floor-standing loudspeakers. The nimble magentostats combine their advantages excellently with the powerfully gripping bass section..."

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    • Robert Schryer, Stereophile

      "The Aspens projected an electrically charged soundfield that was big and dimensional, with notes that were bold and fully formed, supple and dynamic. Even the quieter moments seemed to emit an energetic presence, a kind of radiant musical assertiveness. The speakers sounded well balanced across the frequency range. They also balanced power and agility, machismo and finesse, soaring highs and low-end heft..."

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    • Doug Schneider, Soundstage!

      "I consistently heard super-powerful bass, a really rich and robust midrange, smooth highs, and the kind of effortlessness and scale that you get from big speakers with large and/or lots of drivers....I heard no disparity between what the woofers and planar-magnetic drivers were playing......anyone looking for a pair of speakers that are this large and styled in such an unusual way should explore them. I could tell that there was at least the potential that amazing sound could emerge from them..."

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    • Anthony H. Cordesman, The Absolute Sound

      "I tend to be a bit hypercritical in evaluating anything I consider for purchase. The FR30, did more than live up to my hopes, however, and one way to sum up is to state that I'm buying my review pair as another set of reference speakers. The FR30 is truly outstanding, highly recommended, and well worth the set-up effort necessary to make it perform at its best!..."

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