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Majik DSM4 x Compact 7ES-3 XD Loudspeakers

AED 32,600.00 (Inc. Tax)

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Free delivery on orders above AED 500 in UAE.

Harbeth

Compact 7ES-3 XD Loudspeakers

Allow sensational music moments to come to life at the comfort of your home with the multi-award winning, medium-sized C7ES-3 XD loudspeaker. Acclaimed for its accurate three-dimensional sound, this speaker will impress even the most religious demands of an audiophile.

Linn

Majik DSM Series 4

Majik DSM
One box does it all - just add speakers

Take your first step into authentic hi-fi with Majik DSM. One box does it all: just add speakers. The powerful combination of network music player, pre-amp and power amp, all in one timeless package, is peerless.

Majik DSM has all the connectivity to handle anything you throw at it, wired or wirelessly via WiFi or Bluetooth. TIDAL, Qobuz, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, your own stored music collection… Whether you're streaming music or using one of the many inputs to plug in your 4K TV, Sky box, Apple TV, Games Console… even a turntable, with Majik DSM at the heart of all your home entertainment you’ll get the best possible sound from everything you listen to, in one room or many.

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Package consisting of: Harbeth Compact 7ES-3 XD Loudspeakers and the Linn Majik DSM Series 4.

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Overview

Compact 7ES-3 XD Loudspeakers Overview

The Icon Of Clarity And Detail

ESSENTIAL NEUTRALITY AND NATURAL TONAL BALANCE
Allow sensational music moments to come to life at the comfort of your home with the multi-award winning, medium-sized Compact 7ES-3 XD loudspeaker. Acclaimed for its accurate three-dimensional sound, this speaker will impress even the most religious demands of an audiophile.

The Harbeth secret for accuracy and lifelike sound is the meticulous attention to detail during the design stage. Critically important, but hidden, is the crossover, which carefully integrates the drive units across a wider horizontal and vertical arc. Incremental changes to this fundamental component have allowed this legendary loudspeaker to present the most challenging instruments with increased presence and transparency.

No other loudspeaker communicates the emotional power of the artist so eloquently.

Majik DSM4 Overview
Your Majik DSM
Pair with a Majik LP12 turntable for a simple introduction into both high performance streaming and vinyl. Complete the system with the perfectly matched compact and versatile Majik 109 bookshelf speakers or full-range Majik 140 floorstanding speakers. Plus you can match your turntable and speakers to any colour for a personalised system look that’s uniquely yours.

Take your first step into authentic hi-fi with Majik DSM. One box does it all: just add speakers. The powerful combination of network music player, pre-amp and power amp, all in one timeless package, is peerless.

Majik DSM has all the connectivity to handle anything you throw at it, wired or wirelessly via WiFi or Bluetooth. TIDAL, Qobuz, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, your own stored music collection… Whether you’re streaming music or using one of the many inputs to plug in your 4K TV, Sky box, Apple TV, Games Console… even a turntable, with Majik DSM at the heart of all your home entertainment you’ll get the best possible sound from everything you listen to, in one room or many.

Compact 7ES-3 XD Loudspeakers Features:

Many materials have been proposed for loudspeaker and microphone diaphragms, all seeking that perfect balance between low mass (hence high efficiency), controlled resonance, low coloration and predictable and repeatable manufacturability with stable QC. Harwood’s BBC research proved that loudspeaker cone materials do indeed have individual sonic tonality.

When Alan Shaw took over Harbeth in 1986 Harwood had already identified the next generation cone material after polypropylene. Pioneered by ICI, the new polymer had superb clarity of tone due to radically different crystallinity, albeit with much higher cost and very considerable complexity in moulding. When outsourced, manufacturing this novel material into cones in the quantities needed by the now re-enginised Harbeth company proved insurmountable.

How could Harbeth control its own destiny and lever itself into drive unit manufacturing? And aside from that, were even better polymers available?
The steps towards creating a cone material optimised for use as a loudspeaker diaphragm mandates specialist mechanical and chemical expertise. The best place to undertake such blue-sky research is academia. Thanks to an industry-university sponsorship scheme supported by UK government R&D funding, the Harbeth five man-year Research and Development into Advanced Loudspeaker (RADIALâ„¢) project was underway.

First, just as Kirke had undertaken forty years previously (see Heritage), the Harbeth team reached out to industry and comprehensive global search was made of all potential candidate materials, no matter how obscure.

Some technical parameters were obvious – candidate materials had to have low mass since the consumer would not tolerate low speaker efficiency. Others parameters were impossible to convey to industry in a language they could work with. ‘Low coloration’ conveys nothing to a petrochemical engineer but is of paramount importance to a loudspeaker designer. The problem becomes one of how to guide chemists to modify polymers in a way that steer the acoustic properties to what Harbeth needed.

Had it been possible to bring the combined intellects of Kirke, Shorter and Harwood together, doubtless man-years of painstaking research could have been reduced to months. The no-alternative was a process of sourcing candidate materials under conditions of commercial secrecy and working through them systematically. All fifty or so that met the low-mass requirement but had a range of other properties (including colour) were painstakingly subjected to a series of controlled and standardised excitations to simulate music in a test jig of Harbeth’s design. This obviated the cost and inconvenience of moulding hundreds of alternative speaker cones, assembling them into drive units for measurement and listening, with the risk of overlooking that the best candidate due to the overwhelming practical complexity of the task.

As the months passed, an objective correlation began to develop between the materials under mechanical test, and their subjective sonic signatures. To prove the relationship between physical parameters and perceived sound, suppliers with pilot process plants, including other universities, volunteered to make incremental modifications to candidate materials for Harbeth to analyse and learn from. Typically this involved manipulating the electrical charge that holds molecules together, to tighten or loosen cross-linking chain bonds. As knowledge accrued, the project advanced to the crucial phase: deciding upon the optimum ratio of elements and bulk-blending.

There had been a growing appreciation that candidate materials had distinctive acoustic strengths, and that surprisingly and disappointingly, no one material had optimal audio properties across the entire audio band, as would be needed by a bass-midrange cone.

Conceptually, what was needed was a metal-polymer hybrid: rigid metal for bass punch and softer more forgiving polymer for well damped higher frequencies without the need for cone-doping. The creation of such a material took much more effort.

Assuming such a two-element composite was conceptually feasible, how much of each component would make the perfect cone? The metal-like material could be theoretically blended from between 10% and 90%. With no prior art to draw upon and with four material components, a matrix of possible test blends was proposed, bulk material quantities procured, and experimentation began in small-scale process plant. All samples were carefully archived and subsequently subjected to analysis.

As anticipated, after discarding results from outlying blends, a core group of prospective candidate blends with ideal acoustic performance emerged. It was time to ask the petrochemical industry to manufacture Harbeth’s bespoke plastic compound, in bulk. Much easier said than done.

Although the entire RADIALâ„¢ project had been part government-funded and had received continuous high-level academic supervision, the commercial workings of polymer manufacturers were not appreciated. Although the project had now produced a set of possible target material blends, when the sheet-film manufacturers were asked to produce, their notion of minimum roll quantities were vast: enough film to cover a small town.

The project was brought to a shuddering halt … for now. A radical solution to the impasse was needed and provided in the form of a grant extension, and a reconsideration of the earliest project decisions that had been made. Specifically, to vacuum form the cones.

Vacuum forming, the conventional way of cone manufacture from bought-in sheet film, requires nothing more than a domestic cooker grill, a vacuum cleaner and a wooden mould tool turned on a hobby lathe for pennies. The extreme low-cost flexibility in reconfiguring the tooling for new cone profiles is offset by the restricted range of film materials that are available from stock suppliers and no film is optimised for acoustic properties — the global demand is insignificant. The project has anticipated making speaker cones from film sheet.

Injection moulding, on the other hand, involves enormous capital up-front costs, high temperatures and dangerous pressures. It’s a precision process, controlled and monitored by computer, not man. It makes use of granular polymer materials, which are injected into the hot mould as a liquid. Injection moulding had been considered but dismissed at the project outset because it demands a far higher commitment both financial and technical — it is far from kitchen-table manufacturing. Harbeth had no experience of drive-unit manufacture and the trial and error nature of vacuum forming suited the novice. With the supply of suitable film material now an impossibility, it was time to bite the bullet.

Injection moulding would be the only way to create a superior cone material, whatever the cost.

Majik DSM4 Features
- Streams any digital source over a standard network
- Supports formats up to 24-bit 192 kHz
- Wireless streaming options - WiFi for higher quality or Bluetooth for a quick and easy way to get started playing music
- Integrates seamlessly with TIDAL & Qobuz lossless streaming services
- Compatible with Spotify Connect, Roon & Airplay
- Plays Internet radio via TuneIn
- 8 digital & analogue inputs including HDMI and USB (Type B)
- HDMI 2.0 connections (4K compatible)
- Six customisable smart buttons for immediate access to pinned content from any source
- A larger multi-way menu function button provides comprehensive control and feedback directly from the product
- Front panel headphone output
- Built-in MM phono stage for connecting a turntable
- 2 channels of 100W Class-D power amplification
- Connect multiple Linn DSM players for a high performance multi-room system
- Space Optimisation built-in (requires configuration by Linn Specialist)
Compact 7ES-3 XD Loudspeakers Specifications
Technical Features:
- 200mm Harbeth RADIAL2â„¢ bass/mid;
- 25mm ferrofluid-cooled tweeter
Frequency response:
- 45Hz – 20kHz, ±3dB free-space, grille on, smooth off-axis response
Impedance:
- 6 ohms, easy to drive
Sensitivity:
- 86dB/2.83V/1m axial
Amplifier suggestion:
- Works with a wide range of amplifiers – suggested from 25W/channel
Power handling:
- 150W programme
Dimensions:
- 520 x 272 x 305 mm
- (+12mm for grille and binding posts)
Connectors:
- Two 4mm Harbeth branded binding posts
Weight:
- 13.2kg each (without packing)
Space needs:
- Overall response optimised for use away from walls.
Packing:
- Single speaker per protective carton

Majik DSM4 Specifications
Network music player and integrated pre-/power amp

Inputs
HDMI: x4
HDMI ARC: x1 (via HDMI output)
Toslink:x1
SPDIF: x1 (configurable in/out)
USB: (Type B)x1
Wifi: Yes
Bluetooth:Yes
RCA Phono:x1 pair - configurable Line-Level (default)/MM-phono

Outputs
HDMI: x1
RCA Phono:x1 pair
1/4 inch Headphone Jack:x1
Binding-post / Banana / Spade: x2 pairs

Specification
Construction:Aluminium
Finish:Black
Audio Formats: FLAC, ALAC, WAV, DSD (64/128), MP3, WMA (except lossless), AIFF, AAC, OGG
Resolution:Up to 24-bit 192 kHz
Integrated Services:TIDAL, Qobuz, Spotify Connect, Airplay, Roon, TuneIn, Calm
HDMI Spec:HDMI 2.0 (4k compatible)
Ethernet:x1
Power Amps:2 x 100W Class-D
Built-in Phono Stage:MM - hybrid analog/digital

Dimensions
Width: 350 mm
Height:100 mm
Depth: 350 mm
Weight:4.1kg

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- Taxes and duties are calculated according to the applicable laws of the state or country an item is shipped to and are the customer's responsibility.

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Installation charges are applicable and can be paid upon delivery for our clients based in Dubai.

- Installation Charges: AED 450 Per Hour
- Speaker Cables: AED 32 Per Meter
- Trunking: AED 10 Per Meter

For clients based outside of the UAE, please contact our specialists and we will share an estimate based on your requirements.

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