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Spherical Super Tweeter
• Fast transient response
• Wide dispersion (+/- 45°)
Enjoy the deep and wide sound stage, while retrieving
the lost inner detail throughout the audio range
with muRata Super Tweeters.
ES103A
ES103B
Visit: www.murata.com/speaker/
Contact: speaker@murata.co.jp
ES105
50% of 90 mm
Actual Size
Specifications
SPL: 90dB/w/m nom.
Frequency Response 15 kHz-100 kHz
Resonant frequency: ES103A/B 103 kHz
ES105 105 kHz
Nominal impedance: 8 ohms
Dimensions (mm): ES103A/B 65 W x 110 L
ES105 90 W x 118 L x 65 H
Weight: (1.1 kg (2.4lbs)
(Specifications may change without notice. See catalog or website for details)
Let’s talk strategy.
Let us assume that for the moment
you don’t have the funds for a top
drawer player (otherwise you wouldn’t
have asked about the Philips), but that
within a certain period of time you want
to have a much better system than you
have now (otherwise you wouldn’t have
written to us). It now appears that SACD
has won the war against DVD-Audio, so
you’re right to be looking at that format.
Looking to the future, you’ll probably
want to buy SACD versions of your new
discs, if you can get them, instead of Red
Book CD versions. In the meantime, you
can listen to the Red Book layer via any
existing CD player.
But then again you can also get the
Philips and listen to the SACD layer
instead. If you have a quality CD player,
then, we recommend keeping it for the
moment and putting money away for an
SACD (or universal) player that is built
to the standards of your present player.
If you don’t, the Philips starts to look
most interesting. It won’t give you all of
the advantages of SACD (or any other
medium when it comes to that), but it
will have better dynamics than standard
CD does. It will also play your CDs and
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