PSB Speakers VisionSound Speaker User Manual

Left to right: PSB Synchrony One Tower, Two Tower, One B Bookshelf, Two B Bookshelf (on stand), Two C Center Channel, One C Center Channel and Synchrony S Surround.
PSB Synchrony Technology
Woofer
The Synchrony woofers and midranges bristle with advance-
ments. Laminated cones sandwich ne-weave berglass and compressed-felted bers into a uniquely rigid, self­damping, low-mass diaphragm for higher sensitivity and smoothness. Oversized voice coils, and distortion-arresting motor structures* preserve magnetic linearity at even extreme excursions, for clarity, detail, and “drive.” Carefully engineered ventilated spiders, and rubber surrounds contribute both error-free dynamics and longevity. The cast­aluminum Synchrony baskets are superbly rigid, aerodynamically “open,” and magnetically inert, resulting in maximum efciency of the motor/magnet structure.
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* Aluminum Bullet, Copper Shorted Turn, Aluminum Focus Ring
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C
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PSB Synchrony
PSB is known internationally as the leader when it comes to loudspeakers of world-standard performance and value. PSB’s credentials—35 years of experience in loudspeaker design, led by musician-engineer Paul Barton, exploiting the unmatched acoustical facilities of the Canadian National Research Council in both pure research and product development—are well established. So are its products, among knowledgeable music lovers and home theater buffs, as the benchmarks of value and performance.
Synchrony carries these traditional PSB virtues to new heights,
with seven models developed together and tonally matched
to unprecedented precision. In doing so Synchrony yields sonic performance that pushes the boundaries of the possible, whether judged by way of close technical analysis or by rigorous subjective evaluation.
Yet Synchrony delivers something more: a measure of visual elegance and luxurious nish unprecedented in such thoroughly engineered, advanced-performance loudspeakers. As a result, the seven elegant, small-footprint Synchrony models integrate quietly into today’s most sophisticated listening rooms and home theaters.
PSB Synchrony Two Tower
Synchrony’s designs feature a consistent gracefulness of form that pleases the eye, and natural, superbly nished surfaces that reward the touch.
The Synchrony family arose from a tireless, highly focused three­year development process. While it is human nature to fall prey to the allure of “revolutionary” new loudspeaker designs, the PSB way of achieving ‘breakthrough’ performance is less seductive: renement and still more renement. The sum of hundreds of details, some smaller, some larger, but every one important, the Synchrony family’s collective achievement is a combination of reference-grade individual performance and perfectly matched tonalities that makes them equally adept in stereo music systems and in a wide variety of multi-channel arrays.
Synchrony’s union of rare musicality with benchmark performance is complemented by uncommonly space-efcient design, sophisticated, understated appearance and a quietly luxurious nish. Together, these make the PSB Synchrony loudspeakers uniquely able to unite the ideals of the most critical music listener, the most challenging home-theater buff, and the most demanding designer.
PSB Synchrony Two B Bookshelf
Cabinet Construction
PSB’s unique construction details help make the Synchrony family one of the strongest, most inert, resonance-free enclosures in the industry. Extruded­aluminum front and back panels unite subtly curving, seven-layered, hand­veneered sides into an unbelievably robust structure. Their unbroken, diffraction-free surfaces and near-
total resistance to coloration-carrying
vibrations yield arresting sonic purity— and smooth, beautiful surfaces utterly devoid of visually intrusive
hardware. The Synchrony towers
use immensely complex computer optimized box tuning and crossover networks. Subdivided into three discrete chambers—one for each woofer—they uniquely harness the “oor-bounce” that plagues other oorstanding speakers to extend
and smooth response instead of
roughening and curtailing it.
utterly rigid, inert working surface.
Terminal Cup
Even Synchrony’s solid-metal speaker con-
nectors have been specially designed: gold-
plated for maximum conductivity; accepting banana plugs, pins, spade-lugs, or wire up to 10 gauge; equipped with unique,
ergonomically designed easily grasped
tightening “wings”; and of course congured
with discrete woofer/tweeter terminals for
easy bi-wiring/bi-amping.
Double-locking aluminum corners bind each
Synchrony enclosure with incredible solidity
and “oat” its elegant perforated alumi-
num grille — a uniquely open pattern that’s genuinely acoustically transparent. The double-layer aluminum front bafe sand-
wiches an elastometric
layer that damps un-
wanted vibrations,
xing the drivers in an
Tweeter
The titanium Synchrony tweeter, an evolution of PSB’s famous 25mm metal-dome design, incorporates more than a score of new features engineered to extend high-output, distortion-free response while banishing the dynamic compression that limits most designs. This is achieved by a lighter, stiffer, and Ferrouid-cooled voice-coil, along with a computer-optimised magnetic circuit using a high-ux neodymium magnet to maintain perfect linearity under even the highest power drive.
Technical data
PSB Synchrony Two C Center Channel and
Synchrony S Surround Speaker
Frequency Range
Response
On Axis @ 0°±3dB On Axis @ 0°±1dB Off Axis @ 30°±3dB LF Cutoff -10dB
Sensitivity
Anechoic Chamber Listening Room
Impedance
Nominal Minimum
Input Power
Recommended Program
Acoustic Design
Tweeter (Nominal)
Midrange (Nominal)
Woofer (Nominal)
Crossover
Internal Volume
Design Type
Synchrony One
Tower
30-23,000Hz 33-20,000Hz 33-10,000Hz 24Hz
88dB 90dB
4 Ohms 4 Ohms
20 - 300 Watts 300 Watts
1" (25mm) Titanium Dome with Ferrofluid
4" (102mm)
Fine weave fiberglass
Natural fiber cone Rubber Surround
3 x 6-1/2” (165mm)
Fine weave fiberglass
Natural fiber cone Rubber Surround
2,200Hz, LR4, 500Hz
2.35 cu ft (67 liter)
Bass Reflex
Synchrony Two
Tower
36-23,000Hz 36-20,000Hz 36-10,000Hz 29Hz
88dB 90dB
4 Ohms 4 Ohms
20 - 300 Watts 300 Watts
1” (25mm) Titanium Dome with Ferrofluid
3 x 5-1/4” (135mm)
Fine weave fiberglass
Natural fiber cone Rubber Surround
2,200Hz, LR4
1.8 cu ft (51 liter)
Bass Reflex
Synchrony One B
Bookshelf
47-23,000Hz 47-20,000Hz 47-10,000Hz 38Hz
86dB 88dB
4 Ohms 4 Ohms
15 - 150 Watts 150 Watts
1” (25mm) Titanium Dome with Ferrofluid
6-1/2” (165mm)
Fine weave fiberglass
Natural fiber cone Rubber Surround
2,200Hz, LR4
0.75 cu ft (21 liter)
Bass Reflex
Synchrony Two B
Bookshelf
50-23,000Hz 50-20,000Hz 50-10,000Hz 40Hz
86dB 88dB
4 Ohms 4 Ohms
15 - 150 Watts 150 Watts
1” (25mm) Titanium Dome with Ferrofluid
5-1/4” (135mm)
Fine weave fiberglass
Natural fiber cone Rubber Surround
2,200Hz, LR4
0.6 cu ft (17 liter)
Bass Reflex
Synchrony One C
Center Channel
50-23,000Hz 50-20,000Hz 50-10,000Hz 40Hz
88dB 90dB
4 Ohms 4 Ohms
15 - 200 Watts 200 Watts
1” (25mm) Titanium Dome with Ferrofluid
4” (102mm)
Fine weave fiberglass
Natural fiber cone Rubber Surround
2 x 6-1/2” (165mm)
Fine weave fiberglass
Natural fiber cone Rubber Surround
2,200Hz, LR4
1.3 cu ft (35 liter)
Bass Reflex
Synchrony Two C
Center Channel
55-23,000Hz 55-20,000Hz 55-10,000Hz 49Hz
87dB 89dB
4 Ohms 4 Ohms
15 - 200 Watts 200 Watts
1” (25mm) Titanium Dome with Ferrofluid
2 x 5-1/4” (135mm)
Fine weave fiberglass
Natural fiber cone Rubber Surround
2,200Hz, LR4
0.9 cu ft (26 liter)
Bass Reflex
Synchrony S
Surround Speaker
75-23,000Hz 75-20,000Hz 75-10,000Hz 70Hz
86dB 88dB
4 Ohms 4 Ohms
15 - 150 Watts 150 Watts
2 x 1” (25mm) Titanium Dome with Ferrofluid
2 x 6-1/2” (135mm)
Fine weave fiberglass
Natural fiber cone Rubber Surround
2,200Hz, LR4
0.8 cu ft (23 liter)
Bass Reflex
Synchrony
PSB conceived Synchrony to make real-world audio and home theater systems and their rooms work better, and thus sound better. Synchrony acoustical modeling minimizes the negative synergy of typical speaker placements and room acoustics; Synchrony’s “tweeter-under” driver-array is computer-derived to spread the listening “sweet-spot” over seated-to-standing height; every Synchrony model presents a stable, easy-to-drive electrical “load” that encourages the amplier’s highest performance.
Synchrony Two B Bookshelf
Size (W x H x D)
Weight
Net
Shipping
Finish
8-3/4 x 43 x 12-3/4" 221 x 1092 x 325mm
61 lb (28kg)/each 71 lb (32kg)/each
Black Ash or Dark Cherry
7-1/2 x 39-1/2 x 10-3/4” 187 x 1000 x 273mm
45 lb (21kg)/each 52 lb (24kg)/each
Black Ash or Dark Cherry
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8-3/4 x 14-1/2 x 12-3/4” 221 x 364 x 325mm
21 lb (10kg)/each 48 lb (22kg)/pair
Black Ash or Dark Cherry
7-1/2 x 13-1/2 x 10-3/4” 187 x 343 x 273mm
16 lb (7kg)/each 36 lb (16kg)/pair
Black Ash or Dark Cherry
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24-1/4 x 8-3/4 x 12-3/4” 614 x 221 x 325mm
37 lb (17kg)/each 42 lb (19kg)/each
Black Ash or Dark Cherry
written permission of PSB Speakers. 110 BROCH SYNCHRONY
18 x 7-1/2 x 10-3/4” 458 x 187 x 273mm
22 lb (10kg)/each 25 lb (11kg)/each
Black Ash or Dark Cherry
11 x 13-1/4 x 8” 275 x 334 x 203mm
20 lb (9kg)/each 45 lb (20kg)/pair
Black Ash or Dark Cherry
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