NHT SuperOne Bookshelf speakers

The American company NHT (Now Hear This), explaining the originality of its approach to designing of loudspeakers, underlines the dominating role of psychoacoustic researches in the process of developing of speaker systems. In other words, the company in its developments aims to maximally take the factors of human aural impression. It was constantly verified that such approach is very promising and sometimes leads to unexpected solutions. To some extent the use of closed loading in small SuperOne was a surprise. And this is not to say that such solution is acoustically inappropriate, just the other way around. Without going into details we will only note that under certain circumstances the system with the closed body can play basses noticeably more correctly than the systems of bass-reflex type. It is also known that the problem of bass depth can't be solved only with the help of bass-reflex. By the way, about acoustic design: in addition to sugar-white finish of the body the speaker systems are available with black lacquered surface. We will firstly note that SuperOne organizes a really good stereo panorama, stage space is volumetric, uniformly and also detailed and quite transparent. This combination of features, infrequent in such small sized system, contributes well to reaching of participation and involvement effect. SuperOne transfers both male and female vocal with a peculiar expression. The voice is rich with hints, full of bright details that enhance the illusion of authenticity. Noting the transparency of the image of stage space, we can't not to say about good transparency of the image to a wider extent, taking into account the ability of the system to remember about subtle, barely visible sometimes details against the background of large music masses. But the range of volume level is narrow when this feature especially amazes. High frequencies fill the sound with air, make it open but with a bit excessive diligence. We can say that basses for such baby and without low-frequency resonator are good. SuperOne is a very nice variant of small system for the listener with wide musical tastes. Do not forget about its theatrical destiny.

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