Soavo-2

Yamaha has utilised its vast expertise in music, acoustics and especially as the world’s leading manufacturer of musical instruments to develop a new high performance speaker: the Soavo-1.
Yamaha has a half-century of experience in creating “Natural Sound” speakers and other audio components, and the Soavo-1 not only embodies but re-energises the Natural Sound concept.
Our primary goal was to achieve realistic reproduction of music.
We accomplished this through a combination of advanced design technology, the selection of superior materials, and an extensive testing/tuning process.

Yamaha’s exclusive A-PMD (Advanced Polymerinjected Mica Diaphragm) cones are extremely light, rigid and sturdy thanks to the use of a low specific gravity material called PMP (Poly-Methyl-Pentene) that is much lighter than the commonly used polypropylene.
It provides very fast response time (sound rise and fall), as well as excellent midrange clarity and bass response.
Outstanding internal loss characteristics decrease unwanted resonances to achieve the smooth frequency response that results in natural sounding vocals.
The base resin mix of mica and talc has been perfected by Yamaha over long years of development and testing, and also contributes to the beautiful quality of sounds in the vocal range.

The high-performance 3cm (1”) tweeter features a dome made of aluminium, with Yamaha’s DC-Diaphragm that integrates the diaphragm and voice coil.
It is extremely light yet durable, and transmits large amounts of sound information (highly detailed sound) for a denser sound field.
The neodymium magnet is compact yet powerful.
You’ll enjoy highs that are crisp and clear at all power levels.

The edgewise-wound ribbon wire voice coil contributes to high resolution, exceptional sound detail and excellent imaging.
The spider is a high performance model made by Kurt Müller of Germany.
Diecast aluminium baskets ensure solid support for high stiffness, improving sound image localization and depth reproduction.

One of the keys to Soavo’s ability to deliver Natural Sound music reproduction is the cabinet design.
While maximizing sound clarity and imaging, the designers strived to drastically reduce internal standing waves and produce an expansive sound with an exceptional feeling of depth.
Their solution was to create a cabinet with nonparallel sides.

A diecast aluminium tweeter plate isolates the tweeter from cabinet vibration and provides a solid attachment for the tweeter unit, preventing unwanted movement, so the high range sound is clear and transparent, with no colouration.

Birch is an acoustically excellent material that is used in Yamaha pianos.
Yamaha’s long decades of woodworking expertise have confirmed the superior performance of birch veneer for speaker cabinets, particularly in the shading of bass sounds.
The cabinet is given the same luxurious and environmentally friendly open-pore finish used on Yamaha’s finest wood-grain pianos.

Yamaha’s excellence in woodworking is used to good advantage in the three-way mitered construction of the cabinet joints.
This technique ensures extremely tight joints so the entire cabinet behaves as a single unit, providing tight bass reproduction.

Yamaha’s scrupulous attention to the sound of Soavo-1 is seen in the design of the network circuit.
It uses the highest quality parts, including Solen metalised polypropylene capacitors and large iron-core coil with carefully selected wire.
Furthermore, these parts are connected by directly soldering each one individually, instead of using printed circuit boards.
This contributes to the speaker’s rich and vivid sound.