Aries Cerat Introduces Pallas Horn Loudspeaker

[Verdier]

Now I'm even more annoyed that I don't have time to visit the High End this year. I would have been interested in the new loudspeaker.
Above all, you can see in the picture that the new record player is being demonstrated again. This device really impressed me last year.

I hope it will be a great show for Aries Cerat this year!

 

[TooCool4]

Verdier is that not the same turntable as last year? Attached is a pic I took last year.

 

[Verdier]

Yes, yes, this is the turntable from last year. I wrote that I was very impressed by this turntable last year. It follows that it is the turntable that was shown last year. Perhaps I had expressed myself in a misleading way.

 

[Argonaut]

Yes, yes, this is the turntable from last year. I wrote that I was very impressed by this turntable last year. It follows that it is the turntable that was shown last year. Perhaps I had expressed myself in a misleading way.

I believe a new tonearm also for this year ?!?

 

[Al M.]

Wish AC would focus on better aesthetics like some other EU horn brands.

Yup. Somehow my mind can't shake the association with a bathtub.

 

[Lagonda]

Yup. Somehow my mind can't shake the association with a bathtub.

I prefer the esthetics of the jet engine looking one from last year, that one is cool.

 

[Golum]

I prefer the esthetics of the jet engine looking one from last year, that one is cool.

can't agree more - GE9X kind of looking

 

[Al M.]

I prefer the esthetics of the jet engine looking one from last year, that one is cool.

Maybe, but do I want to associate listening to music with a jet engine? Methinks not.

But yeah, better than the bathtub for sure.

 

[Kingrex]

@Just Bob
Take a look at these. Can you make them in your wood shop!!!!!!!!

 

[Lagonda]

Maybe, but do I want to associate listening to music with a jet engine? Methinks not.

But yeah, better than the bathtub for sure.

I do not get abstracted by the look of the speaker if the sound is coherent and in the room. I do prefer speakers that look like pieces of art, some of the Aries Cerat speakers do have that quality, as do some MBL, B&W Nautilus, Gryphon Pendragon and my ML Statement E2 system among others.

 

[Verdier]

I believe a new tonearm also for this year ?!?

Sorry, I don't know.

 

[Al M.]

I do prefer speakers that look like pieces of art, some of the Aries Cerat speakers do have that quality,

Yes, I like the looks of the Symphonia and Aurora speakers.

 

[Kingrex]

I love the sound of a good horn. It brings a particular type of delight.

I think I like a heavy mass loaded horn. You know what I mean???. Some horns are a thin material or molded material.. Other horns are a big block of something and milled out.

Aries Cerat seems to be using a huge chunk of something that's been milled. I bet it kicks butt. Set up well, I bet it's hard to beat.

 

[Willgolf]

I love the sound of a good horn. It brings a particular type of delight.

I think I like a heavy mass loaded horn. You know what I mean???. Some horns are a thin material or molded material.. Other horns are a big block of something and milled out.

Aries Cerat seems to be using a huge chunk of something that's been milled. I bet it kicks butt. Set up well, I bet it's hard to beat.

My Auroras weigh about 650lbs each. Once placed, they ain't moving! LOL.

 

[orfeo_monteverdi]

Some horns are a thin material or molded material.. Other horns are a big block of something and milled out.
Aries Cerat seems to be using a huge chunk of something that's been milled

indeed, regarding the horns of their Symphonia speaker for instance, it's milled out of a solid block of wood
(amazing very short video of that manufacture process - picture of the final product: the small horn that embeds the ribbon tweeter).

Here, with the Pallas Horn Loudspeaker, are the horns made of wood? @Ron Resnick, are you in Munich? Can you tell us what you think the material could be?


(Still no available teleportation technology, a pity. I'd like to use it just to go in Munich for one day. Nobel Prize of Physics Alain Aspect will maybe explain us tomorrow how to do that < conference on quantum mechanics)

 

[Ron Resnick]

@Ron Resnick, are you in Munich?

no

 

[Argonaut]

indeed, regarding the horns of their Symphonia speaker for instance, it's milled out of a solid block of wood
(amazing very short video of that manufacture process - picture of the final product: the small horn that embeds the ribbon tweeter).

Here, with the Pallas Horn Loudspeaker, are the horns made of wood? @Ron Resnick, are you in Munich? Can you tell us what you think the material could be?

Hi Oliver , Yes I can confirm that the Pallas horns are crafted using the same materials and processes as the Symphonia and Contendo and I suspect the body of the Pallas will sport some similarities to the Aurora .

 

[morricab]

indeed, regarding the horns of their Symphonia speaker for instance, it's milled out of a solid block of wood
(amazing very short video of that manufacture process - picture of the final product: the small horn that embeds the ribbon tweeter).

Here, with the Pallas Horn Loudspeaker, are the horns made of wood? @Ron Resnick, are you in Munich? Can you tell us what you think the material could be?


(Still no available teleportation technology, a pity. I'd like to use it just to go in Munich for one day. Nobel Prize of Physics Alain Aspect will maybe explain us tomorrow how to do that < conference on quantum mechanics)

It’s milled out of wood with a liquid pearl finish that is amazing up close. Sound is very alive and dynamic. All new amps. Preamp and phonostage. There is also a “small” system comprised of the Aurora speakers, Helene DAC, Incito S and the new Quinndecim amp. That also sounded phenomenal.

 

[hopkins]

Sound clip:

Nice music, nice sound.

"Gentle Ben" - Ben Webster & Tete Montoliu

 

[Aries Cerat]

Hi
I would like to thank everyone that visited us at the recent Munich HES show, and for the overwhelming positive comments.

Even though the Pallas was not the only new design to debut (we launched a series of electronic designs using our prop NOIES technology) , plus some tricky digital things , the Pallas certainly stole the attention from it's accompanying electronics .
Some more information regarding the design

It is a four way, semi active horn speaker.
Construction wise, it's bass wings are 20mm thick solid alumium and woofers are cross braced (for force cancelling) using stainless rods.
It's front horn sections are stacked plywood construction, solid ply sheets glued, and milled.
The finish is called Liquid Peal and is 4-5mm thick proprietery finish which gives the certain textured look.

The bass section is comprised of a folded open baffle , with 16 12'' woofers in total. Each woofer can handle 500W and is driven by 500W amp each, so total 16 x 500W for the bass. The woofers are custom AE units with low fs but with accordion suspension and are very light and fast.
The filters are analog with multiple adjustments.

Midbass section consists of a 110Hz modified tractrix midbass horn (stacked ply) loaded with a 8'' field coil. The FC works as compression driver as we designed special front/back chamber and a special phase plug (aluminium 3d printed PG). Midbass covers 115-350Hz

Midrange section uses again a modified tractrix horn with full rollback to minimize diffraction.It uses the 667 driver (modern version of the 555 driver) custom made in DE.

HF section is a true foil ribbon driver loading our new tweeter horn. You can say the whole project begun with the development of this new HF horn last summer. The modified tractrix horn is 3.5 times deeper than our previous HF horn and is a very different design than our previous designs.It allowed us some very different voicing strategies for the speaker.The foil is dipole and it's firing to the 240mm tractrix to the front, and an inverted horn to the back (to absorb the back wave).

The heart of the speaker is of course the (external) crossover which hosts the passive (constant GD filters) for the three horns, the analog filters for the bass and the Bluetooth module. As well as conditioning filters for the field coils.

The Bluetooth module is a version of the same tech found in Contendo and Aurora that allows significant level of adjustment to the speaker.

Each channel/speaker comes with two four-channel amps for the bass which sit on the plinth of the speaker.

Cheers
S