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Pure Reference

Pure Reference

Overview

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Pure Reference

The desire to create a breakthrough in any field of human endeavor must be fueled by a burning passion to be the best. Coupled with this must include the requisite expertise and the experience necessary to actually accomplish this daunting task. Further add the endless hours of time and labor with the need for boundless energy and the prospect of succeeding may nevertheless still prove illusive. However, when all of the above ingredients coalesce and the goal is attained, the result is the Coincident Speaker Technology Pure Reference Loudspeaker.

The Pure Reference is the culmination of a lifetime’s devotion and fanaticism with recreating the live musical experience in the home. This speaker exists for only one purpose: to enhance the conveyance of the musical message to a degree not experienced outside of a live concert. No expense and no effort were spared and no detail was deemed too trivial in creating the Pure Reference. The mission in bringing the Pure Reference to fruition was to afford the music lover the opportunity to experience in his own environment the most accurate musical reproduction possible with virtually any amplifier in existence, from flea powered SETs to large solid state and everything in between. The Pure References can be easily driven to concert hall levels by low powered tube amplifiers (3 watts or more) because they possess the 5 requirements which make this possible:

1. High sensitivity (94 db @1m-1 w)
2. Uniform high impedance modulus (flat 8 ohms)
3. Total absence of any hard phase angles (meaning they are absolutely phase coherent electrically)
4. Very tight bass tuning (which makes it easier for low damping factor- high output impedance amplifiers like SETs to control the woofers).
5. Simple first order crossovers which do not rob amplifier power or reduce speaker sensitivity.

Many audiophiles believe the most accurate amplifiers are single ended triode tube designs, yet few speakers are capable of being properly driven by these amps. This creates a paradox of sorts. Speakers need amplifiers to create sound, yet the finest amplifiers cannot be used by virtually all the state of the art speaker contenders. These speakers must then be mated to inferior sounding amplifiers with resultant compromised sound. The Coincident solution is to create the finest loudspeaker that can be optimally driven by the finest amplifiers. The end result is the most accurate musical reproduction possible.

To create a state of the art loudspeaker requires that every component used in the design is the finest and that the sum of its parts are synergistically matched so that the final product is a unified whole. Therefore, not only must the design and concept of the speaker be state of the art, so too must the execution. This means that all the ingredients which comprise a speaker must be given equal attention with none being deemed less significant.