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Rare
high-end 'speakers from Victor's "Select" series which
also included the P-L10
and M-L10 pre/power
combo, QL-A75
turntable, MC-L1
and MC-L10 cartridges.
The "L"
stands for Laboratory.
Blue
baffle apart, the
Zero 10 is less
conventional than it may seem but it does conceal its key features
very well indeed :
If
dressed in wood, the enclosure does in fact hold a frame made of
inert composite material designed with the aid of a "modal
analysis" computer program ; its shape ("super-elliptical")
helps prevent enclosure disformation and standing waves.
And the drivers aren't white just to look classy : they are in fact
coated with fine ceramics by way of "Physical Vapor Deposition"
and "Plasma Blast" processes.
The
woofer is secured on both front and back sides of the enclosure
; the super tweeter is a highly efficient and horn-loaded Dyna-Flat
ribbon, allowing frequency response up to... 100kHz !
Nothing
really ground-breaking, no revolution, just a careful blending of
high-end elements which Victor would carry over, ever refining the
blend, to acclaimed and cost-no-object units such as the
Zero
L1000,
SX-900
and later Spirit
SX-1000 variants.
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