EMOTIVA Airmotiv E2 [5/28] Airmotiv speakers

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AIRMOTIV SPEAKERS

Introduction

Thank you for purchasing our new Emotiva Airmotiv™ loudspeakers.

The Emotiva Airmotiv series of speakers represents the culmination of years of research and

experience in producing home and professional loudspeakers oering both excellent technical

performance and superb sound quality. Our Airmotiv speakers were designed from the start to be

equally at home in an audiophile stereo system or a high-end home theater.

Our design philosophy is simple: if a speaker can reproduce the entire audible spectrum, as

accurately as possible, with very little distortion or coloration, then it will sound good - whether

you’re playing classical music, or jazz, or the sound track of your favorite blockbuster movie.

For high-frequency reproduction, we chose our Airmotiv™ folded ribbon tweeter. This tweeter,

which we introduced in our Airmotiv Stealth studio monitors, oers excellent frequency response,

very low distortion, great detail retrieval, and high power handling capability. And, last but certainly

not least, the Airmotiv folded ribbon tweeter sounds superb at all listening levels.

For middle and low frequencies we chose advanced woven ber cones, which deliver smooth

response over the entire audio spectrum, and blend well with our Airmotiv tweeters.

The crossover network used in each Airmotiv speaker was carefully designed and optimized to work

perfectly with the drivers we chose for each, and features audiophile quality lm capacitors, air core

inductors, and precision resistors in critical locations.

The Airmotiv speaker cabinets are crafted from thick, heavily braced, acoustically inert HDF to

ensure maximum rigidity and resistance to stray vibration; the front panel is machined from a solid

slab of 25mm HDF. The faceted front panel design, borrowed from our studio monitors, not only

adds a stylishly futuristic look to our Airmotiv speakers, but also serves a very practical purpose

- to minimize diraction eects and room interactions. The front panels are coated with multiple

coats of attractive satin-nish black lacquer, which looks elegant while resisting ngerprints and

scratches, and the sides are covered with tough, good looking textured black vinyl. And, for those

of you who prefer to keep their technology under wraps, all of our new Airmotiv speakers include

removable, magnetically-attached, grilles.

All of the speakers in our new Airmotiv series are carefully timbre-matched, so you can feel free to

mix and match whichever models are most appropriate to your particular installation requirements.

The Airmotiv T1 and T2 towers have suciently extended bass response to be used without

a subwoofer for stereo music; the smaller Airmotiv B1 bookshelf monitors, while they have a

somewhat more limited bass output, oer a well-balanced sound, and may also be used without a

subwoofer. For home theater applications, or where prodigious amounts of bass are required, we

recommend a subwoofer. The Airmotiv C1 and C2 are superb quality center channel speakers, which

deliver crystal clear easily intelligible dialog. The Airmotiv E1 is a direct radiating surround speaker,

while the Airmotiv E2 features dual high frequency drivers, and can be congured as either a direct

radiating bipole or dipole surround.

Happy listening!

The Emotiva Team