The popular choice. Gives up the most minuscule of focus for a fullness of sound and most beguiling mid-range tone. They won’t hurt your pocket, but they will pull strongly on your heartstrings!
The Model One AS-3 Reference Pro speaker uses exactly the same in-house drive units as the Monitor but in a slightly larger cabinet to give a more rich delivery.
With Contrast Audio speakers the age old cliché of PRaT (Pace, Rhythm and Timing) truly stands out and music sounds as it was intended to- fun and bouncy, smooth and silky, even menacing- the Model One will do it all!
Finishing colour:
Black / Brown high-gloss piano finish.
All others colours on request and special order.
Type: | Passive, Book-shelf |
Acoustic accomplishment: | Wooden bass reflex port on the back panel. |
Finishing: | Piano lacquer finish |
External dimensions, mm: | 350 x 200 x 300 |
Acoustic transducers : | 1. Contrast 1' Silk dome tweeter. 2. Contrast 5.5' inch. paper cone low range / mid range driver. |
Acoustic channels: | 2.0 |
Connection interface: | Spades and bananas, single-wire |
Nominal impedance, Ohm. |
11 / 16 |
Power handling, Watt: | 80 |
Sensitivity, dB(1W@1M): |
95 |
Frequency range Hz: | 36 – 20.000 |
Crossover filtering: | The most minimal electronic crossover filtering network (clossover-less, natural cut-off, acoustic filtering approch). Crossover filter include only single one Mundorf capacitor only. |
Frequency response of tweeter (Frequency cut), Hz: | 10.000 |
Recommended amplifier impedance (Ohm.): | 6 / 8 / 16 |
Weight (pair), Kg: | 18.0 |