JMR-Jean-Marie Reynaud AGAPE

The bass-reflex load has a front laminar port for the woofer. The internal volume is made up of five distinct acoustic cavities, one for each speaker, even for the tweeters. The electronic part is located in a separate closed cavity to avoid any electromagnetic and acoustic disturbance coming from the speakers.

A 140 mm boomer: finished cone (not pierced by the coil) with a Gaussian profile, with a pressed carbon sandwich structure (non-woven) with a liquid crystal fiber core, the same as the one used for the Abscisse Jubilé. It has a 38 mm coil on a ventilated aluminum support. Its suspension is made of rubber/foam treated on a portion of its surface in contact with the cone by an absorbent material. Its long coil allows long excursions without distortion and a very strong power handling. Its bowl is made of aluminum with flat speeder ventilation.

– Two 100 mm midrange drivers: audiophile quality paper cone driven by a 25 mm coil on an aluminum stand. Its bowl is also made of aluminum. They have a double ferrite magnet with slow magnetization. Their soft core cover is made of polypropylene. • Two 28mm synthetic silk textile dome tweeters with a neodymium magnet and a closed rear tuned cavity. Their horns are made of ABS and have an optimized profile for a better control of their directivity.

All Agape speakers are the result of our latest research and are of truly audiophile quality. The filtering is hybrid associating a passive circuit and a DSP. It is passive between the tweeters and midrange with a 12 dB/octave slope at 2,800 Hz using high quality, hand-assembled components.
The digital DSP filtering allows the connection between the midrange and the bass with a slope of 24 dB/octave at 200 Hz and ensures an optimum transition without intermodulation.
The amplifier modules use Class D technology and provide 2 x 65 W for the midrange/treble section and 1 x 125 W for the bass in mono.

WOODWORKING:

It is made of 19 mm MDF, its architecture allows each speaker to have its own optimized and separate load, in all there are 5 distinct acoustic cavities. A sixth cavity is in charge of housing all the electronic part isolated from all the magnetic and vibratory disturbances emanating from the speakers. The bass-reflex load of the 14 cm diameter woofer is finely tuned, which allows a very wide bandwidth in the low frequencies (55 hz at -3db). This load leads to a laminar vent on the front of the cabinet to facilitate the placement of AGAPE. The bass is tense, very well modulated, without bloat or redundancy. Its cabinetry rests on black ABS legs that rest on foam discs to avoid any parasitic vibration.

FILTERING:

The filtering is hybrid associating a passive circuit and a DSP. It is passive between the tweeters and midrange with a 12 dB/octave slope at 2,800 Hz, using high-quality, hand-assembled components. The digital DSP filtering allows the connection between the midrange and the bass with a slope of 24 dB/octave at 200 Hz and ensures an optimum transition without intermodulation.

LOUDSPEAKERS :

• A 140 mm boomer: finished cone (not pierced by the coil) with a Gaussian profile, with a pressed carbon sandwich structure (non-woven) with a liquid crystal fiber core, the same as the one used for the Abscisse Jubilé. It has a 38 mm coil on a ventilated aluminum support. Its suspension is made of rubber/foam treated on a portion of its surface in contact with the cone by an absorbent material. Its long coil allows long excursions without distortion and a very strong power handling. Its bowl is made of aluminum with ventilation of its flat speeder.
– Two 100 mm midrange drivers: audiophile quality paper cone driven by a 25 mm coil on an aluminum stand. Its bowl is also made of aluminum. They have a large diameter, high power, slow-magnetizing ferrite magnet. Their soft core cover is made of polypropylene.
• Two 28mm synthetic silk textile dome tweeters with a neodymium magnet and a closed rear tuned cavity. Their horns are made of ABS and have an optimized profile for a better control of their directivity.

All AGAPE speakers are the result of our latest research and are of truly audiophile quality.

AMPLIFICATION :

Class D modules with a cumulative power of 255W (2 × 65W for the midrange/treble and 125W for the bass in mono) largely sufficient to feed a room of reasonable size with a realistic sound level.

FILTERING:

• Two-way passive filter 12db/octave centered at 1.2khz using very high quality passive components (silver armature capacitors and HP1132 silver/copper cable termination, air coil in deoxygenated pure copper strip of great width; specific wound resistors covered with a copper tube acting as a heat sink and Faraday cage connected to the system ground) Filter assembled by hand on anti-vibration support and placed outside any electromagnetic field. Sorted and matched component with a tolerance of 1%. Directly soldered components and fully wired internal connection using our silver/copper HP1132 cable with doubled cross section