Kharma EXQ-MD-2.1 User Manual

EXQUISITE MIDI

Loudspeaker system

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Exquisite Midi

Description

Creating a Kharma Exquisite loudspeaker is a very long process. Looking for the
perfect shape, materials and sound... that sense of graceful elegance you would
expect from a handcrafted loudspeaker. The far-reaching attention to detail makes
this speaker range a class of its own. This becomes crystal clear by the Diamond
tweeter which is standard in the Exquisite Collection. This all is the result of our
unique reputation and style, which is realized by a team of highly dedicated and
committed specialists.

The new Kharma Exquisite Midi is designed and built without compromise. Every part
of this speaker, from the extreme dense HPL-plates to the smallest details has a
function in the complex process of creating ultra high-end sound. The advanced
Diamond dome technology used in the Exquisite Collection emphasizes this incredible
attention to detail even more. Furthermore the uncompromised design also resulted in
the beauty of the Exquisite Midi, which is for example shown by the gold-plated side­trimming or the new high-gloss Macassar panels.

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Features

Crossover

This Exquisite loudspeaker can only achieve astonishing musicality by using complex
crossover techniques, which can be seen as the beating heart of this loudspeaker.
This complex in-house developed crossover will lead all drivers to the right music
composition.

Therefore the crossover can be seen as an orchestra conductor, which will have to
turn the information received through the loudspeaker cable into a musical spectacle
as if it was read from a music sheet.

Kharma has mastered the art of retaining musical wholeness with the proprietary
crossover technique used in the Exquisite Midi. This technique is seldom used by
other manufacturers because of its complexity. This results in the Kharma crossover
where simply is no gap in information.

Internal cabling

An Exquisite loudspeaker is internally wired with pure silver/gold conductors. The
internal wiring has the same high quality as our Kharma Enigma cable series and
Enigma Signature series.

Connector

The Exquisite Midi is equipped with the recently developed Kharma Binding Posts,
designed and proven to be the best link between the loudspeaker cable and the
internal wiring.

Cabinet

The massive cabinet is made of high pressure laminate (HPL). The cabinet is a piece
of art in every way, from the use of perfect materials to construction and finish, all are
exceptional. The use of HPL plates causes the mechanical vibrations of the cabinet to
damp to almost zero.

This damping of the mechanical vibrations of the cabinet is important, because the
cabinet should absolutely have no contribution to the sound field itself. For this
reason the cabinet should not emanate vibrations, which is realised by the material of
the cabinet.

Moreover all energy from the drivers that is trapped inside the loudspeaker should be
absorbed by the cabinet. This is realised by the combination of the extreme dense
HPL plates and sophisticated acoustical damping. The acoustical damping is capable
to absorb the energy in a wide frequency spectrum.

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Stand

Mechanical residual vibrations of the cabinet are terminated by the Spike Disk
Suspension System (SDSS) by minimising the contact area between the cabinet and
the floor. The SDSS stand also provides a fixed and levelled orientation for the cabinet
drivers, because each spike can be adjusted individually in the vertical direction.

Drivers

• High-frequency: 1 x 1-inch Diamond concave tweeter

• Mid-frequency: 1 x 7-inch Kharma Omega 7 driver

• Low-frequency: 2 x 8-inch Nomex-Kevlar driver

The musicality you may expect from the Exquisite Midi is for an important part created
by the drivers, which can be seen as the engine of the loudspeaker. The quality of the
driver is therefore crucial to compete with reality.

Diamond concave tweeter

Without a doubt the quality is guaranteed by using a Diamond tweeter as a standard
in the Exquisite Collection. These high-frequency drivers are true technological
wonders. The tweeters have a diamond cone which have been realised by the so
called CVD process. With this process incredible stiffness is reached with a minimum
of thickness of only 50 μm. Notice a human hair is in the range of 17 to 180 μm. The
cone is the most essential part of the tweeter and because this cone is made of
Diamond the tweeter is capable to create impressively pure high frequencies.

Kharma Omega 7 driver

The midrange of this speaker is formed by our in-house developed Kharma Omega 7
driver, where the number is referring to the 7-inch size of this carbon based driver.
The new cone technology used for the Omega 7 driver is based on Ultra High Modulus
carbon fibres, which is the best fibre available on the globe today. The use of these
ultra stiff carbon fibres and an unique resin displaces the break-up frequencies of the
cone, in comparison with a standard cone material, to a whole other level. These
increased break-up frequencies ensures the cone is free from almost all resonances in
the intended frequency range for this midrange driver. Moreover, the cone shape is
optimized with a finite element analysis to utilize the full potential of the carbon
material. This combination of the best carbon fibre and an optimized cone shape has
resulted in a near perfect behaviour for the Kharma Omega 7 driver.

Nomex-Kevlar driver

The two woofers have 8 inch sandwich-honeycomb-Kevlar cones which also again are
completely free from structure born resonances in the used frequency range.

Kharma International b.v. Kalshoven 7 4825 AL Breda The Netherlands T [phone] F [phone] [e-mail] www.kharma.com
Rabobank 17.89.68.412 BIC: RABONL2U IBAN: NL56 RABO 0178968412 Chamber of Commerce: Breda no. 20125438 VAT: NL0090.92.833.B01