ACHROMATIC
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ACHROMATIC

Achromatic means, in hi fi terms, purity and preservation of original music without colouration or added intonation – something we, at Wharfedale strive for in our pursuit of audio excellence. Many good home cinema systems are unnecessarily compromised by the use of poor loudspeakers that are so often part of dealer packages. Even many aftermarket replacement products fail to deliver the kind of quality in performance that the rest of the equipment can deliver.

The role of a high performance loudspeaker system is to faithfully reproduce the audio signal, from deep, sub-bass frequencies right though to inaudible high-frequencies, the sound needs to be smooth and unbroken – without colouration. The Achromatic system is designed as such and therefore just as refined and well poised with music as it is with fast, dynamic movie soundtracks.

Consisting of six pre-configured systems designed to offer significant performance advantages over packaged loudspeaker systems yet retaining the same lifestyle element, high quality finish and compact form factor for easy installation, each package offers a different combination of front, centre and surround speakers with low-profile subwoofer options.

 

    System Configurations:
  • Mini – WA-S2 x 2 pairs + WA-S2 x 1 unit + WA-8SB x 1 unit
  • Micro – WA-S1 x 1 pair + WA-S2 x 1 unit + WA-T4 x 1 pair + WA-8SB x 1 unit
  • Basik – WA-S1 x 1 pair + WA-S2 x 1 unit + WA-T4 x 1 pair + WA-12SB x 1 unit
  • Supro – WA-S2 x 1 pair + WA-S4 x 1 unit + WA-T8 x 1 pair + WA-12SB x 1 unit
  • LCR – WA-S4 x 3 units + WA-T4 x 1 pair + WA-8SB x 1 unit
  • Ultimo – WA-T4 x 1 pair + WA-S4 x 1 unit + WA-T8 x 1 pair + WA-12SB x 1 unit
  • *Also available: Achromatic LCR Sound Bar

 

WA - T4 WA - T4
WA - T8 WA - T8
WA-C2 WA-C2
WA-C4 WA-C4
WA - S1 WA - S1
WA - S2 WA - S2
WA-8SB WA-8SB
WA - 12SB WA - 12SB
  • Hi-Gloss Black Hi-Gloss Black
A brand new aluminium inverted dome drive unit has been developed specifically for the achromatic series. The high-sensitivity voice-coil, mounted on a Kapton former is directly coupled to the edge of the inverted dome with a stabilized butyl rubber half-roll surround. An audiophile standard suspension unit provides damping and a large, high gauss ferrite magnet system provides exceptional drive-plenty to produce the long cone excursions required to reproduce even the most dynamic transients.
 By using line-arrays of these excellent 3” drivers, bass extension is further improved. Each drive unit is actively driven; resulting is a full, powerful and well integrated sound.
The treble unit is a refined 25mm soft-dome driver with a copper-coated aluminium voice coil. Cooled with ferro-fluid, to maintain a constant operating temperature and avoid thermal compression, the tweeter is capable of a resolution well beyond 20kHz - and far above the upper threshold of human hearing.
 Arrays of long throw 3” drivers are used for the bass and mid-range frequencies of all the satellite speakers.
 The low-profile subwoofer are built with advanced 8” and 12” composite cone bass drivers that are enclosed in a reflex ported enclosure for optimum transfer of energy. Both subwoofers have built-in 100WRMS (8”) and 150WRMS (12”) power amplifiers and advanced filtering system that allows each subwoofer to be tuned to work perfectly in any room or with any Achromatic system configuration.
BROCHURES
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Achromatic pdf 3209kb 2009-06-23 Download
MANUALS
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Achromatic pdf 3165kb 2009-06-25 Download
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