With the Square One the design challenge was to accept, and then exploit the shape, and do things that cannot be done in curved enclosures. By turning a weakness to a design advantage, the Square One attempts to address the biggest problem of all square designs, the negative effects of the reflected and absorbed, in the impact zone at the back of the cabinet. By relieving the cabinet of this burden a number of benefits are realised.

An advanced composite Assisted Bass Radiator, consumes 75% of the rear wall of the Square One cabinet. This has a number of very important benefits:~ First of all, it immediately reduces the most troublesome part of the square enclosure, namely the back of the cabinet where the greatest level of impact energy occurs.

Secondly the accuracy of the A.B.R. enables a more precise use of the waste energy from the back of the diaphragm. This allows a more accurate response to be produced both in the in the low frequencies and mid frequencies.

Thirdly, it avoids the port chuffing noise that would be unavoidable and easily audible, if placed close to a wall.

Fourth, at the design stage, the level or output of the A.B.R., can be precisely tailored, in a way that is impossible with a port. This enables the speaker, to be tuned for use against walls, without suffering the over emphasis of the bass,that is a common problem with other designs.

Awards
***** Group Test Winner, What Hi-Fi Magazine, 2007 (UK)
***** Review, What Hi-Fi Magazine, 2007 (UK)

The Square Two, a two-way, floor standing design, provides an excellent price / performance ratio. The Square Two sees an A.B.R. deployed in the same location as the Square One. The signal to noise ratio of the cabinet, is significantly lower than competing designs.

The tweeter enjoys the benefit of its own chamber, as in the A.C.T. This detail improves the response of the tweeter, whilst also protecting the sensitive crossover components from the energy of the main driver. The chamber itself is of course a strong part of the cabinet, being a small enclosed structure. As in all Wilson Benesch designs, the bass driver is precisely tuned, to provide a natural low frequency roll off, that is supported by the precisely vented port at the bottom of the cabinet.

All the Square designs benefit from the Wilson Benesch Tactic drive unit, crossover components, internal wiring and terminal provision. It follows that the character of the Square two, is very similar to the more exotic siblings in the Wilson Benesch marque. Transparent, free of boxy characteristics, fast and accurate.

We’ve only heard a handful of speakers that come close to the Square Two’s almost supernatural ability to respond to the leading edge of notes

What HiFi Magazine, 2007

When higher levels of performance are required that are beyond the limits of the Square, then the Square Two is capable of providing that extra level of bandwidth.

Awards

‘BEST STEREO SPEAKER £2000+’, What Hi-Fi Magazine, 2007 (UK)
***** Review, What Hi-Fi Magazine, 2007 (UK)

The Centre Square is a low profile, high power solution to providing a channel of sound. Although it is called Centre Square, it should be appreciated that it can be seen as a very flexible design, that goes beyond the confines of being just a centre channel. It can be deployed against the wall in either a horizontal or vertical orientation.

As a discrete component, it provides building block flexibility, with high output acoustically matched performance. As the rear wall forms an intrinsic part of this design, the two A.B.R.’s in this case, are located in the side of the enclosure. Both the mid range, and bass driver, benefit from the A.B.R. Like all Wilson Benesch loudspeakers that use two or more Tactic drive units, it is a two and a half way design, so phase is as pure as possible.

Significantly, all these designs are capable of being enhanced by adding the Torus Infrasonic generator.

By extending the frequency response well beyond 20 Hz, they are capable of providing a quality of performance that is well beyond many ‘high end’ systems costing significantly more.

As you can see from the images we featured a blend of old and new at this years event. One of the very first Wilson Benesch turntables was used as principle source to play records from as far back as 1957 to present day, much to the appreciation of all who heard. The Nanotube One tonearm was used on the turntable. The A.C.T. C.60 made its debut in the Limited Edition version alongside one of the first A.C.T. One’s from 15 years ago.

Every year this event seems to go from strength to strength. We enjoyed the highest number of visitors to date this year. So we look forward to making the next event even better and planning has already started.

Audionet Electronics were of course deployed throughout and served in the usual purposeful and reliable way. On the main system the very latest Pre-power combination was fast and effortless. The Cinema relied upon one Seven channel amplifier.

As part of the retrospective, the modest, sublimely beautiful, classic Wilson Benesch Turntable will be used as one of the source components in this years two channel system.

The retrospective will form part of active demonstrations that will feature two systems all of which will be driven by Audionet, connected by Clearer Audio and augmented by the patented technology of the Torus Infrasonic Generator. Darren Smith of Clearer Audio will be attending the whole show and we are also grateful to other supporting companies for the Cinema system that will be based around a Yamaha Blue Ray source with Projection Design delivering all the required visual display systems.

System 1.
The two channel system will be defined by the world’s most advanced loudspeaker technology. The construction of the A.C.T. C.60 more closely resembles the Typhoon Eurofighter than a conventional wooden loudspeaker. Launched in 2008 at the inaugural Singapore Grand Prix this will be the first showing in the U.K. of this ground breaking, wide bandwidth (18 100KHz) benchmark in performance. The source components for this system will also include the companies very first design, the Wilson Benesch Turntable. A design that still delivers reference quality performance, 20 years after it was first built. This particular system has been used to voice every loudspeaker design. Its timeless, elegant, understated lines look as contemporary to day as they did when it was first released. Some of the elements of this design will be on display as part of our retrospective.

System 2.
The multi channel system will be defined by the outstanding Square Series. Here is what WHAT HI-FI had to say about these Five star, Group Test winners.

“These speakers are faster than fast
To paraphrase Lightning McQueen (the animated hero in Pixar’s Cars), “these Wilson Benesch speakers are faster than fast“ they are speed. We’ve only heard a handful of speakers that come close to the Square Two’s almost supernatural ability to respond to the leading edge of notes.”

We truly believe the Wilson Benesch Square Two’s deliver the finest sounds available at this price, and you have to spend a lot more to better them.

We look forward demonstrating why nothing comes close to a Wilson Benesch.

The directors would like to thank everyone who has written to the company expressing their positive comments on our presentation at this years Sound and Vision Show. It was clear from the views expressed during the show that things were working. The room was constantly buzzing with enthusiastic and serious visitors enjoying a varied program of music and cinema.
Demonstration area 1 – 2 Channel System comprised of:
Nanotube One Tonearm, Ply cartridge Full Circle turntable. Audionet electronics, Clearer Audio cables, Trinity loudspeakers and Two Torus in an Alex configuration. This is where each Torus is fed by both channels and the frequency divided between the two. In this case from 45 to 30 Hertz for Torus One and 30 down for Torus Two.

Demonstration area 2 – 5.1 Cinema System comprised of:
Projection design Projector, UVEM Media Centre, Arcam Processor, Chord cables, Audionet Power amplifiers, Square Two Loudspeakers with Centre Square and Two Torus.

Special thanks go to Tony Revelle and Jerry Lewin and all the Audio X and Audio T organisation staff for making possible such a special event. Thank you to Adrian Cox of Moorgate Acoustics Sheffield for his obsessive attention to detail and high altitude expectations. Darren Smith of Clearer Audio cables for his huge contribution and wealth of knowledge on cable design. To our distributors who travelled to meet with us from Spain (Filipe Jimenez of Evalitec Solutions S.L., India – Jay Nihalani of Sound and Vision and Italy – Giovanni Spinneli. Plus all the dealers who took time out of their busy schedules to see what everyone was talking about at the Bristol Marriott.

Work has already started on the ideas that will make 2009 (the company’s 20th anniversary celebration year) the best yet!

Audio & Cinema en Casa review of Square Two by Jorge Goncalves courtesy of our Portuguese distribution, Ajasom.

You can download this review by clicking here (PDF)

You can view the Square Range by clicking here

Best Speaker Over £2,000 – Square Two.

The Library of Torus Cone Standers, continues to grow with some interesting additions. A news section will be added shortly that will be dedicated to this most revealing art form. Thank you to everyone who took part.

Thanks also go to What Hi Fi for making it possible to exhibit in such a well organised event. Last but not least thanks go to Clearer Audio who managed to put up a good fight for the unofficial Best sound at the Show. The Reference Naim / Wilson Benesch Arc system that was being used to desribe the sonic strengths of Clearer audio cables were the topic of conversation from many who shared their views with us. We thank you all for attending our show and making the weekend such a successful event.

“Stijlbreuk met behoud van kwaliteit.” Quote from article:
square2.pdf

Excellent review on Square One and Square Two in Koreas Audio magazine. Thanks go to Jang of Campia Tech for making this possible. PDF download: Sqreview.pdf