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Sony SS-MB350H Bookshelf Speakers (Pair)

Sony SS-MB350H Bookshelf Speakers (Pair)

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Features:
  • 3-way, acoustic-suspension (sealed-cabinet) bookshelf speaker with 120-watt maximum power handling, 8-ohm speaker impedance
  • 3.25-inch and 8-inch Kevlar/HOP (high strength, low weight, and low resonance) drivers and a 1-inch tweeter
  • Nano-Fine balanced-dome tweeter rated to 50 kHz; bass response extends to 50 Hz
  • Includes 2 lengths of 8-foot speaker cable and removable speaker grilles
  • Measures 9.5 x 20.8 x 10 inches (W x H x D)


Description:

Designed for stereo or, using 2 pairs, surround sound listening, Sony's 3-way SS-MB350H bookshelf speakers are engineered to extract all of the detail that new high-resolution audio formats can provide. The speakers each employ one 3.25-inch and one 8-inch Kevlar/HOP driver with a 1-inch Nano-Fine balanced-dome tweeter. Nano-Fine tweeters extend the speakers' frequency response well beyond the 20 kHz limit of CD audio, all the way out to 50 kHz--perfect for today's high-resolution music formats like Super Audio CD (SACD) and DVD-Audio. The Nano-Fine design makes each tweeter extremely still and light--ideal properties for a tweeter.

The SS-MB350H's sealed (acoustic-suspension) cabinets ensure lean, "fast" bass response with tonal accuracy and no "chuffing" or excessive resonance, which ported designs can exhibit. Sony's speakers use precision crossover assemblies to ensure blending while recreating a seamless sound stage. Today's high-resolution stereo and discrete surround formats can reproduce the same sound out of all speakers. If a variance in drivers, crossover, or materials occurs, the pitch and surround illusion can suffer. Sony speakers are designed using matching driver complements and crossovers to ensure blending from left to right and from front to rear.

The Kevlar fiber cone material offers an ideal mix of strength and low weight. Traditional driver materials must increase mass to provide greater amounts of rigidity, but these materials tend to be slow and inaccurate. Kevlar, combined with Sony's HOP (Highly Oriented Polyolefin), delivers extremely high strength and low mass. This allows for high power handling (up to 120 watts per channel) and ideal frequency response. HOP is a proprietary speaker-cone material offering high strength, low weight, and low resonance, contributing to the speaker's excellent transient response, high power handling, and flat frequency response. Frequency response extends down to 50 Hz, giving you all but the lowest audible octave of bass.

The balanced-dome tweeter represents a Sony refinement of the classic dome tweeter, which places the voice coil inside the tweeter's circumference for superb dispersion and reduced distortion than traditional tweeters.

The SS-MB350H speakers are magnetically shielded to allow distortion-free placement near TVs or computer monitors, and they come with 2 lengths (8.2 feet each) of speaker cable to simplify hookup with your integrated amplifier or surround receiver.

What's in the Box
Two speakers, speaker cable (8.2 feet x 2 lengths), a user's manual, and warranty information.

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