TACTIC DRIVE UNIT

Having secured a £250,000 DTi SMART Award from the government as part of the development of the Chimera loudspeaker, Wilson Benesch developed its own drive technology in the shape of the Tactic Drive Unit.

The blisteringly fast and dynamic Tactic Multi-role Drive Unit technology is manufactured entirely in house. The Tactic Drive Unit at the heart of the Square Two, is a highly optimised engineered component built to the exact requirements of the Square Series II.

SCANSPEAK TWEETER

Familiar from the Odyssey Range and the Wide Bandwidth Collection, the ScanSpeak Tweeter is a 25mm (1”) fabric-dome tweeter. The tweeter has been modified to a Wilson Benesch specification, featuring an improved magnet assembly and no ferrofluid.

ABR

At the rear of the Square Two cabinet, a unique, high-energy loss diaphragm effectively manages out of phase energy to improve dynamics and perfectly damp the exuberant capabilities of the Tactic Drive Unit. Absorbing energy produced by the drive unit into a lossy structure and thus reducing the potential for resonance in the loudspeaker cabinet. Placed directly behind the mid / bass Tactic Drive Unit, the ABR also enhances the low frequency extension of the drive unit much like a port.

In a relatively compact design such as the Square Two, one advantage of the ABR, as opposed to a port, is the relative freedom that the ABR gives in terms of rear wall placement since the ABR does not load a nearby facing wall to the same degree that a port would. For owners with limited space in the listening room, this can be an important consideration.

CABINET CONSTRUCTION

The Square Two extracts the full advantages of the Tactic Multi-role Drive Unit design, deploying one single driver to reproduce both the bass and midrange frequencies.  As with the  Square Three, the Square Two retains a highly articulate character in its sonic presentation. The speaker is natural and balanced, with large open imaging.

This character is borne from the Tactic Drive Units, however the use of a variety of technologies in the speaker cabinet achieve vanishingly low levels of noise and coloration, which allows the Tactic Drive Units to excel. The technologies at play include the carbon composite technologies, taken from the Geometry Series, and added to the Square Series II in the form of internal bracing.  In addition, high and medium mass alloy pads, visco-elastically bonded to the cabinet walls, add critical mass damping.

HAND CRAFTED FINISHING

Each Square Two, like any Wilson Benesch product has been built by a team of highly trained craftsmen. The cabinet design, like the Tactic drive units at the heart of the Square Series II, is the result of a fastidious attention to detail and engineering excellence. It is the same team of engineers and craftsmen that are responsible for the Cardinal flagship and for this reason you can be sure that the Square Two is a true high end speaker system.

WHITE GLOSS

OAK SATIN

NATURAL CHERRY SATIN

ZEBRANO GLOSS

BIRDSEYE MAPLE GLOSS

RED BIRDSEYE GLOSS

RED TULIP GLOSS

BURR WALNUT GLOSS

WALNUT GLOSS

EBONISED WALNUT GLOSS