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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