Audio Physic Cardeas RQ

The new generation of CARDEAS – technological innovation, redefined

What does true innovation mean?

With the new CARDEAS RQ, we are taking precisely this step: It represents the very best of four decades of research – while at the same time marking a radical new beginning. A loudspeaker that opens up new sonic horizons and sets new technological standards.

A State-of-the-Art Cabinet Construction – Sound in Complete Serenity

The foundation is an elaborately engineered multi-sandwich cabinet with an asymmetric design. Inside, a high-strength honeycomb core combined with multiplex provides maximum rigidity, while an outer shell made of a glass-elastomer composite ensures exceptional internal damping. This unique structure effectively minimizes cabinet resonances – creating the perfect foundation for pure, uncolored sound.

A New Generation of Drivers with New Materials and Possibilities

The new CARDEAS also sets new standards in terms of sound: all drivers – from the tweeter to the mid/bass drivers – have been completely redesigned. Of particular note is the newly developed diaphragm material: a special carbon-matrix fabric (RECOTec) that combines extreme rigidity with high internal damping – for maximum precision, impressive dynamics and exceptional transparency.

The new generation of drivers delivers impressive performance not only at high listening levels. Even at very low volumes, the CARDEAS remains exceptionally detailed and highly resolved. The finest information, spatial details and dynamic nuances remain clearly and distinctly audible even during quiet passages. At the same time, the new technology significantly expands the dynamic range of the CARDEAS: from the quietest musical moments to powerful, dynamic passages, reproduction remains precise, controlled and effortless.

The result is an exceptionally broad musical dynamic range, in which music can be experienced not only loudly and powerfully, but equally quietly, delicately and intimately.

Adaptability Without Compromise – with Q-SET

Another key feature of the new CARDEAS is its uncompromising adaptability to the listening room. Switches on the rear panel allow the damping characteristics of the woofers and mid/bass drivers to be adjusted in two stages. We call this feature Q-SET (Bass Adjustment). This allows the loudspeaker to be precisely adapted to placement close to walls or in corners – without any significant change in impedance

This is made possible by the use of specially arranged and designed dual voice coils in the woofers and mid/bass drivers – a technology that is unique in this form to date.

A Loudspeaker That Opens Up New Sonic Dimensions

Imagine a soundstage that is open in every direction. One that offers both limitless spaciousness and pinpoint focus. A loudspeaker that reveals even the finest musical information at low listening levels, while at the same time having enough dynamic headroom to reproduce the greatest musical peaks with complete authority.

With the new CARDEAS RQ, you experience music across an exceptionally wide dynamic range – from the quietest nuances to the most powerful climax. Throughout, reproduction remains transparent, precise and immediate.

An intensity that cannot be explained, but only experienced – immediate, honest, alive.

Welcome to the future of listening. Welcome to Audio Physic.

4-Way Design

The 4-way speaker features four different drivers that share reproduction of the entire frequency range. One or more subwoofers, one or more woofers, a midrange and a tweeter. Usually the crossover frequency between subwoofer and woofer is set at around 100Hz, while low and mid frequencies are separated between 250Hz and 400Hz, and the crossover frequency between midrange and tweeter is normally set at 2,000Hz to 3,000Hz.

HHCM V SL+

HHCM V SL+ – The fifth generation. The new reference in the midrange.

For many years, the HHCM SL, which works without a spider, has stood for absolute precision and naturalness in music reproduction. With the fifth generation – the HHCM V SL+ – we have consistently continued this claim and raised the sound to a new level. The result is a listening experience that touches more deeply and comes closer to reality than ever before.

At the heart of this further development is the innovative RECOTec material for the membrane: a carbon fiber fabric embedded in a polypropylene matrix. This unique combination of materials combines maximum stiffness with perfect internal damping – enabling a midrange that sounds freer, more lively and more authentic than ever before. Voices, instruments and fine nuances unfold with breathtaking naturalness.

The Plus version of the HHCM V SL goes one decisive step further: The strictest selection and the equipment with exclusive WBT Plasma Protect™ contacts guarantee maximum signal fidelity and long-term stability.

Experience music in a new dimension – precise, transparent and full of emotion.

HHCT V+

HHCT V+ – The fifth generation. The new reference in treble.

At the heart of our further development is the innovative RECOTec material for the cone: a carbon fiber scrim embedded in a polypropylene matrix. This unique combination of materials combines maximum stiffness with perfect internal damping – and thus enables a treble that is free of resonances, silky fine and exceptionally rich in detail. Even the smallest nuances, the finest overtones and the airiness of a recording unfold with breathtaking naturalness.

The Plus version of the HHCT V goes one decisive step further: The strictest selection and the equipment with exclusive WBT Plasma Protect™ contacts ensure absolute signal fidelity and long-term stability.

Experience music in a new dimension with the HHCT V+ – brilliant, transparent and full of emotion.

RECOTec Membrane

RECOTec – The membrane material of the future

With RECOTec , a completely new type of membrane material has been developed: a chaotically arranged carbon fiber scrim, embedded in a high-purity polypropylene matrix. Adhesives or synthetic resins are completely dispensed with – disturbing resonances cannot occur in the first place.

The result is a sonic symbiosis: the naturalness of classic paper cones combined with the precision and resolution of modern aluminium cones. RECOTec thus stands for a new generation of loudspeaker diaphragms – low-resonance, high-resolution and absolutely authentic.

Q-SET (Bass-Adjustment)

The Q-Set allows the woofer reproduction of loudspeakers to be flexibly adapted to the respective room positioning. Especially when positioned close to the wall or corner, excessive bass enhancement can occur due to room influences. With Q-Set, this effect can be compensated for in 3 stages.

Q-Set does not have a negative impact on the impedance curve – the working conditions for the connected amplifier do not change. The switches can be operated during normal music operation.

PowerTrain™

Double Surround bass-midrange chassis

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Dual Basket Design

AUDIO PHYSIC’S unique DUAL BASKET DESIGN is a true break-through innovation and the most important part of the HHCM-III technology. Instead of the tradition single basket, our HHCM-III features two separate baskets to prevent and subdue unwanted vibrations already at the source.

Invisible Subwoofer

Some of our speakers feature an internal woofer inside the cabinet provides the same deep bass and punch as an additional subwoofer without anyone ever having to see it.

Push-Push Configuration

Some of the side-mounted woofers in our 3-way and 31/2-way speakers are arranged in a Push-Push configuration in which the forces exerted on the cabinet by the two woofers cancel each other out, avoiding the introduction of vibrations that could harm sound quality.

Honeycomb Sandwich Board

Very rigid material with an internal honeycomb structure, first used in our state-of-the-art STRUCTURE. It is very light and a lot better in avoiding unwanted vibrations and resonances than the commonly used MDF.

Ceramic Foam Bracing

Ceramic Foam is a high-tech material used for internal bracing in many of our speakers. It is much stiffer than MDF although it consists of 85% air. This means, the room taken up by the internal bracing is also part of the effective volume of air the drivers need to work. By using Ceramic Foam, we can build loudspeakers that match and out-perform much bulkier speakers.

Sandwich Cabinet Construction

Our unique Sandwich Cabinets are an innovative way to stop the speaker cabinet from developing an acoustical life of its own. It is especially effective with our stylish glass-finished speakers as the relatively high weight of the glass panels helps dampening the cabinet even better.

VCT – Vibration Control Terminal

Unwanted vibrations have negative effects on sound quality wherever they occur in the signal path. Because AUDIO PHYSIC has made it their mission to fight unwanted vibration and resonance whenever and wherever they occur, the fully decoupled VIBRATION CONTROL TERMINAL (VCT) has been devised.

Vibration Control Feet Magnetic standard

High End version of our VCF with even bigger improvement of sound performance as the speaker is completely decoupled from the floor by resting on a magnetic field. Also available as VCF Magnetic component for Hi-Fi separates.

Bi-Wiring/Bi-Amping optional

Most our speakers have a regular single-wiring terminal to avoid unnecessary metal or wire bridges that would harm sound quality when used in single-wiring configuration (Which is what most Hi-Fi fans actually use). However, an optional Bi-Wiring/Bi-Amping Terminal can usually be ordered with any new speaker. Retrofitting only on special request.