Like listening to one voice rather than many, sound from a single source is inherently clearer. Not only are the acoustic centres of the HF and MF drivers in the Blade’s Uni-Q array coincident, but the four LF drivers are mounted symmetrically equidistant from it so that their acoustic centres occupy exactly the same point in space.

Single apparent source | 01:29

This single apparent source configuration is what makes the Blade so gratifyingly coherent across the frequency range, with noticeably more precise imaging than is possible from any conventional speaker.

What you hear sounds as if it’s being performed live right in front of you.

To avoid dissipating the energy of such potent bass drivers in exciting the cabinet (and thereby generating resonance, especially at high volume), the large kinetic forces involved are cancelled out by mounting the LF drivers rigidly together, back-to-back.

By minimising cabinet colouration, this highly effective configuration partly accounts for the Blade’s natural-sounding and engagingly musical performance.

The twinned pairs of bass drivers are mounted in discrete chambers separated by an internal partition. By increasing the frequency of any internal standing waves to way beyond the crossover point, this reduces the need for damping material (which can otherwise impair bass quality). Nothing has been overlooked in the quest for the ultimate clarity, right across the frequency range.


Bass | 02:48

With a speaker as ambitious as the Blade, short cuts are out of the question. Everything has to be as right as it can possibly be.