 | The brainchild of a progressive Custom Installation design team, Image Audio’s miraculous speaker range combines powerful and sophisticated driver designs with proprietarily braced and damped cabinets to engineer all the purity and impact of high-end speaker performance into a design that’s just 98mm deep.
The new three-strong range of super-slim on-wall speakers is fitted with an acoustically treated "Image frame" giving them the appearance of a high quality canvas print. Once selected from Image Audio’s ‘gallery’ of designs, each print is cut and hand wrapped to the frame, as an original canvas would be. Image Audio will also produce prints from customer photos or artwork within 14 days. |
Image Audio’s amazing range promises the prodigiously deep bass and natural mid and high frequency performance of a large traditional speaker in a form that’s easy to live with.
IA8 Wall Mounted Hi Fidelity Loudspeaker
The IA8 has been designed with a no compromise approach in cabinet construction, crossover components and drive unit specification. Installed correctly and used with the right amplification the IA8 will deliver crystal clear audio with fast dynamics, smooth even dispersion and superior high SPL (Sound Pressure Level) capabilities.
There are some unique features that make the IA range superior in sound reproduction. The cabinet is fitted with multiple bracing and filled with a combination of DACRON dampening material and TWARON; an incredibly strong material used in armored vests with fibers thinner than a human hair. This design dramatically reduces unwanted resonants and internal standing waves,
removing distortion and improving clarity. The cabinet is a bass reflex design with two ports at its base that run up either side of the woofer. The ports are tuned to perfectly match the response of the cabinet in relation to the wall. This is normally a variable for stand and floor mounted speakers. A Neoprene rubber seal surrounds the rear of the cabinet, this seal compresses when the speaker is slid onto the wall bracket. This helps acoustically isolate the cabinet from the wall improving bass definition.
The custom made 8” bass driver is unique to the IA8 and although from the outside it resembles many woofers, internally it is very different. The woofer is based on Hexatech technology whereby a hexagonal shaped aluminium wire voice-coil affords higher efficiency and power handling accuracy. A mixture of compact yet powerful Neodymium magnets surrounded by ferrite magnets, creates an optimum magnetic field, allowing a large woofer to fit within such a compact cabinet.
The same principle has been applied to the construction of the tweeter which also features an unusually large voice coil and hand treated silk dome surface. The crossover has been designed to match the high quality design criteria of the drive units and features world renowned M-CAP audiofile capacitors.
