Very quietly over the past couple of decades the suburban Boston consumer audio company Aerial Acoustics has developed and manufactured some of the best sounding speakers available to the public.
Led by one of the most respected speaker designers in home audio, Michael Kelly, Aerial has delivered some of the best values in the high-performance speaker market, and its newly announced Model 7CC has been engineered to reinforce the company's reputation for providing value and high levels of performance.
Refining past products like its CC3, CC5 and CC3C center-channel speakers, the Bay State company says the 7CC “provides improvements in naturalness, balance, detail resolution, sensitivity, dynamics and transparency.”
When the speaker is used with other Aerial products, the Model 7CC produces a seamless, realistic soundstage in locations as varied as tabletops, shelves and stands. Aerial also says the room-friendly 24-inch x 8-inch x 12-inch deep speaker can also be set up by dealers three in a row to form a soundbar type of solution, and to aid dealers during the installation process, the speaker incorporates rear-panel switches that help to optimize the speaker's sound depending on their location.
Aesthetically, the speaker features similar design elements as other Aerial products, including the 5T, 6T and 7T with a curved cabinet that is made from a multilayer process in which multiple layers of wood are pressed together for two days by a 20-ton press. The tweeter and midrange drivers are center mounted on a thick black anodized aluminum plate that seals their dedicated chambers, and the company damps internal cabinet volume with New Zealand long-fiber wool.
Internally the speaker features a 1-inch woven ring-dome dual-magnet Danish tweeter from the 7T loudspeaker, as well as a midrange driver based on the midrange driver used in the 6T and 7T, and a new dedicated 6.7-inch long-stroke woofer that is made exclusively for the Model 7CC. Controlling these drivers is a high-order, multi-element crossover network, and together these components and design specifications produce a frequency response of 55Hz to 25kHz +/-2dB.
The $4,495, 4-ohm loudspeaker is also 87dB efficient and is offered in a choice of Nero metallic black and high-gloss rosenut hand-made finishes.
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