Description
Super Denton
The Wharfedale SUPER DENTON portrays an authentic legacy. Traditional, simple, and beautiful yet highly evolved, it has a thoroughly modern design that is bang up to date.
Super Dentom utilises a mixture of traditional and advanced technology for optimum performance whilst staying true to the legacy in the classic Wharfedale tradition – beautifully hand-veneered with an inset front baffle and traditional cloth grille.
One of the notable things about the original Denton was its compact size, helping to popularise the concept of bookshelf speakers at a time when hi-fi speakers were usually bigger, bulkier boxes.
Most Denton iterations were two-way designs, combining a mid/bass driver with a treble unit, and the same is true of the two existing 21st-century models.
However, in 1971, Wharfedale launched the Denton 3, sporting a three-way driver configuration with separate bass, midrange and treble units – in doing so, Wharfedale created the smallest three-way speaker on the market, claimed to be capable of delivering the performance of much larger speaker systems.
3-Way Design
The industrial design and cabinet engineering required incredible effort to support such a complex array in a small volume, small footprint cabinet.
Measuring 360 x 246 x 275mm (HxWxD), the SUPER DENTON’s size is similar to the Denton 3, making it one of the world’s smallest three-way hi-fi speakers – if not the smallest, just like the Denton 3 over 50 years ago.
The midrange and treble units are offset from the centre, which helps maintain the speaker’s compact stature and scatter reflections from the cabinet edges.
Cabinet & Pairing
The SUPER DENTON cabinet features critically placed bracing and internal acoustic damping using layers of long-hair fibre, and the midrange and treble units have their own rear enclosures.
The cabinet itself uses a combination of woods to scatter panel resonances rather than having a single, audibly apparent resonant frequency. An inner layer of high-density particle board is bonded to an outer layer of MDF by an inter-layer of special glue with resonance-damping properties.
The SUPER DENTON is supplied in matched, mirror-imaged pairs. With one speaker optimised for the left channel and the other for the right, accurate stereo imaging within a deep, broad soundstage is assured when the speakers are sited appropriately.
As with all models in the Heritage series, the new SUPER DENTON cabinet is wrapped with hand-matched wood veneers for a furniture-grade finish befitting any living environment – classic or modern.
Drivers
The drivers are advanced on any previous model with the Denton name.
The premium cast chassis 6.5-inch (165 mm) bass unit is tuned to the cabinet for bass extension down to 40Hz, below the fundamental ‘E1’ tuning of a standard bass guitar – impressive for a speaker of the SUPER DENTON’s compact dimensions.
This driver handles bass and lower-midrange frequencies with engaging definition and expression, bringing instruments and voices to life – astonishing for a loudspeaker of this size.
The midrange unit is based around a 2-inch (50 mm) dome design – inspired by Wharfedale’s award-winning EVO4 project.
This driver delivers upper-midrange and lower-treble frequencies with aplomb. It provides the ideal transition from the fundamental tones carried by the bass unit to the harmonic overtones higher in frequency.
The wide dispersion of this dome diaphragm is responsible for the clarity and finesse that brings the musical performance alive, seamlessly transitioning from the fundamental tones carried by the bass unit to the harmonic overtones further up the frequency range.
Super Denton 3-Way Bookshelf Loudspeakers, in Walnut finish, by Wharfedale.
Features
- Compact 3-way design, delivering large sound from a smaller cabinet
- Traditional engineering with advanced modern technology
- Advanced, updated crossover and driver designs
- Fabulous attention to detail
Specifications
- Model: SUPER DENTON
- General description: 3-way vented-box / standmount
- Enclosure type: Bass Reflex
- Transducer complement: 3-way
- Bass driver: 6.5-inch (165 mm) Black Woven Kevlar Cone
- Midrange driver: 2-inch (50 mm) Soft Dome
- Treble driver: 1-inch (25 mm) Soft Dome
- Sensitivity (2.83V @ 1m): 87 dB
- Recommended amplifier power: 25 – 120 W
- Peak SPL: 103 dB
- Nominal impedance: 6 Ω (Compatible 8 Ω)
- Minimum impedance: 3.4 Ω
- Frequency response (+/-3 dB): 52 Hz – 20 kHz
- Bass extension (-6 dB): 40 Hz
- Crossover frequency: 940 Hz + 4.6 kHz
- Cabinet Volume (in litres): 14.7 L
- Height: 360 mm
- Width: 246 mm
- Depth (with terminals): (275+20) mm
- Carton size: 660 x 390 x 475mm
- Net weight: 9.2 kg/pcs
- Gross weight: 21 kg/ctn
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