New Technics SB-G90M2 coaxial floorstanding

[BrokenEnglishGuy]

New floorstanding 35 KG

 

[jhaider]

Interesting, there's also a bookshelf model: https://www.technics.com/uk/news/0011.html

No idea if they're coming to the US.

Their speaker lineup has always looked a little schizophrenic to me. The C700 (a fantastic speaker, though I guess they never got traction in the market - I may be a little self-interested in saying so as I own a pair, but I believe these are future cult classics) has a cabinet that looks like it was designed to minimize diffraction and a flat coax like some vintage Technics speakers with a 3/4" tweeter. Then this line, which is squared off and has a conventional conical coax with a larger tweeter. Most companies have a hard-to-impossible time optimizing one design of concentric driver. I wonder how Technics did with two.

 

[q3cpma]

Interesting, I really want to see measurements and prices.

 

[BrokenEnglishGuy]

Interesting, I really want to see measurements and prices.

Technics Announces the SB-G90M2, a New High-End Floorstanding Speaker System - Technics UK & Ireland

Technics today announced the launch of the new SB-G90M2 floor-standing loudspeaker system in the Grand Class series.

www.technics.com

from this website:

The SB-G90M2 loudspeaker system will be available in Europe from October 2021 for £2199, in a luxurious high-quality black gloss finish.

 

[thewas]

Their previous SB-C700 measured very well and were also very highly ranked by the Stereophile

Technics Premium Class SB-C700 loudspeaker Measurements

Sidebar 3: Measurements I used DRA Labs' MLSSA system and a calibrated DPA 4006 microphone to measure the Technics SB-C700's frequency response in the farfield; for nearfield frequency response, I used an Earthworks QTC-40, which has a ¼" capsule and thus doesn't present a significant obstacle...

www.stereophile.com

so I would also love to see some measurements on those.

 

[q3cpma]

Sorry for not having bothered searching. It does compete properly with KEF's R serie pricing (R7 is £2600 and has the same woofer area), so definitely awaiting hard data.

By the way, is there some good quality (S&R or Klippel quality) data for the SB-C700? I really want to compare it with the new LS50; I'm especially skeptical concerning directivity (even if Stereophile shows something truly great up to ~14 kHz) and possibly distortion.

 

[q3cpma]

Responding to requests from our customer base, the new SB-G90M2 now features bi-wiring speaker terminals

I love how they're basically saying "don't worry, we're not snake oil sellers, just doing that to please retarded audiophiles".

 

[bunkbail]

Beautiful speakers, would love to have them in my room.

 

[BrokenEnglishGuy]

Sorry for not having bothered searching. It does compete properly with KEF's R serie pricing (R7 is £2600 and has the same woofer area), so definitely awaiting hard data.

By the way, is there some good quality (S&R or Klippel quality) data for the SB-C700? I really want to compare it with the new LS50; I'm especially skeptical concerning directivity (even if Stereophile shows something truly great up to ~14 kHz) and possibly distortion.

Yep, very similar to the R7, both have 2 woofers + 1 coax 32 KG KEF , the Technics is 35 kg is very heavy tower

 

[JWAmerica]

I love coaxial drivers. Very interested in the measurements for these towers.

 

[napilopez]

Sorry for not having bothered searching. It does compete properly with KEF's R serie pricing (R7 is £2600 and has the same woofer area), so definitely awaiting hard data.

By the way, is there some good quality (S&R or Klippel quality) data for the SB-C700? I really want to compare it with the new LS50; I'm especially skeptical concerning directivity (even if Stereophile shows something truly great up to ~14 kHz) and possibly distortion.

I haven't seen anything higher quality than stereophiles, but for what it's worth directivity is probably the most reliable part of any measurement across different measurement systems. In my own case even when there are some differences on-axis, directivity very rarely (perhaps even never?) varies much compared to anechoic sources.

What makes the SB-700 so interesting to me is that it's a wide directivity coaxial design with very nicely controlled directivity. That's quite the rarity.

 

[BrokenEnglishGuy]

I love coaxial drivers. Very interested in the measurements for these towers.

yep, i really like the coaxial towers because you can use them in nearfield/mid field more easily

 

[JWAmerica]

I haven't seen anything higher quality than stereophiles, but for what it's worth directivity is probably the most reliable part of any measurement across different measurement systems. In my own case even when there are some differences on-axis, directivity very rarely (perhaps even never?) varies much compared to anechoic sources.

What makes the SB-700 so interesting to me is that it's a wide directivity coaxial design with very nicely controlled directivity. That's quite the rarity.

SB-C700 or SB-700? Or SB-X700A? Very different speakers despite similar model names.

 

[thewas]

SB-C700 or SB-700? Or SB-X700A? Very different speakers despite similar model names.

SB-C700 of course, the other are vintage and not coaxial, although Technics had also a very good for that time coaxial series around in the mid 80s

Technics SB-rx50