PSB has introduced the brand new era of its Think about collection of audio system, comprising the B50 Bookshelf mannequin alongside the T54 and T65 Tower audio system, at this yr’s Toronto Audio Pageant.
The Think about Collection is designed to be PSB’s best-value speaker collection, that includes most of the inner designs and applied sciences taken from the model’s flagship Synchrony Collection. With tasteful designs and extra inexpensive value tags, this up to date era of the Think about line might be very best for anybody searching for an inexpensive but satisfying speaker set.
Let’s begin with the smallest of the brand new line, the newly-imagined PSB B50 Bookshelf. Comprising a 2.5cm tweeter alongside a 13cm woofer, the compact unit includes a two-way bass reflex design and a rear-facing slot port which, says the producer, will “fill any house with harmonious sound and unexpectedly deep bass extension”.
Additionally arriving can be a brand new pair of floorstanders – the Think about T65 and T54 – which boast related inner {hardware} expanded out to bigger, weightier fashions. The T65 is touted because the “pinnacle” of the Think about Collection, bringing collectively the identical 2.5cm tweeter and 13cm woofer as discovered within the above B50, in addition to bigger twin 16.5cm woofers.
The T65 additionally teases a broad soundstage and deep low-end courtesy of its twin bass reflex configuration, rear slot ports and “meticulously tuned woofer chambers”. The crossover design, says PSB, has been developed so that every driver presents extra exact sound management for a deep, expansive sound.
Then there’s the T54 floorstander. Once more, the T54 sports activities a 2.5cm tweeter, however this time there is a 10cm mid-range alongside the identical twin 16.5cm woofers as discovered within the T65. The brand new tower additionally makes use of a three-way bass structure, as seen within the T65, in addition to twin rear ports. It isn’t as large as its flagship older brother, however the T54 guarantees “a large frequency vary and pin-point imaging for an immersive listening expertise”.
Whereas design and kind range from speaker to speaker, a lot of the identical important DNA is shared between all three members of the up to date Think about line. All sport woven carbon fibre cones and all function rubber surrounds and magnet constructions. It needs to be famous that the three-way twin bass design is not featured within the B50 Bookshelf, however it’s common to each the T54 and T65.
Each speaker within the new Think about Collection is on the market in both Black or Satin White colourways from November seventh, with costs as follows:
- B50 Bookshelf Audio system (£599 / $699 per pair)
- T65 Towers (£1699 / $1999 per pair)
- T54 Towers ($1499 / £1199 per pair)
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