Rectilinear 5 --- Rectilinear Dispersion; Base optional.
Some speakers are more equal than others. Over the years, Rectilinear engineers have created a number of fine speakers. Some have even gone on to become classics.
Indeed, for a great many knowledgeable enthusiasts, Rectilinear has virtually redefined the listening experience.
Now, with a new generation of speakers, the Contemporary Laboratory Series, we have developed a family of speakers that are so clearly superior to anything that has gone before, that conventional comparisons no longer apply.
A case in point is the new Rectilinear 5.
Listening to this remarkable speaker is, quite simply, a revelation. It produces completely natural, uncolored sound of extraordinary clarity and subtlety. Yet, it is capable of generating very high sound pressure levels with only moderate power input.
The outstanding performance of the Rectilinear 5 is directly traceable to its comparatively simple, but highly refined design.
Flat, flatter, flattest.
Though nominally a four-way speaker system, the Rectilinear 5 differs from conventional multiple driver systems in some very fundamental respects.
In most systems, the individual drivers are operated over a restricted portion of their actual frequency range with the unwanted or undesirable frequency extremes "dumped" into elaborate crossover networks to maintain some semblance of smooth response.
By contrast, we take a simpler, but far more effective approach. We painstakingly design each driver for exceptionally smooth response over its entire operating range with the top end rolling off naturally, both mechanically and acoustically. Thus, we come very close to attaining that most elusive of all speaker characteristics, an apparently seamless transition from driver to driver.
Because the individual driver characteristics and their interrelationships have been so carefully worked out, the use of complicated crossovers with all their attendant problems is largely avoided.
Instead, sophisticated leading edge filters are employed, allowing a much smoother transfer of energy. But of equal importance, phase integrity is maintained and transient response greatly improved.
Another dividend of this innovative approach to speaker design is the enormous power handling built-in to the Rectilinear 5.
The final touch.
Obviously, we've invested a great deal of time and effort to make the Rectilinear 5 the most accurate speaker current technology permits.
Moreover, to insure unvarying excellence from unit to unit, we have instituted a new quality control program that may well be the most stringent in the industry.
One last thought. At a time when all too many companies have opted for exotic designs (read expensive), we have deliberately sought to create a clearly superior speaker system at a price that would still be within the reach of the discriminating enthusiast.
We think that alone makes us a little bit more equal than all the rest.
For complete information on the Rectilinear 5 and the rest of the Contemporary Laboratory Series write:
Rectilinear Research Corporation, 107 Bruckner Boulevard, Bronx, N.Y. 10454.
Canada: H. Roy Gray, Markham, Ont. Military and International inquiries: Rectilinear International Corp.
The Rectilinear 5
(adapted from Audio magazine, oct. 1975)
Also see:
Rectilinear XIa Loudspeaker System (Equip. Profile, Aug. 1973)
Rectilinear Research Corp. loudspeakers (ad, Oct. 1973)
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