Luxman L-507Z & Epos ES-28N
Luxman L-507Z
Luxman’s new generation Z series integrated amplifiers.
The Luxman L-507Z is the debut model heralding their new generation of amplifier products.
Featuring their newly developed LIFES amplification feedback engine, they look towards the future of Luxman.
This amplifier has realised a dramatic development in musicality that goes far beyond its class.
L-507Z combines advanced technology and sophisticated functionality.
Their new, innovative Z series integrated amplifier generation begins with this superb model.
Large needle VU level meter and 7-segment LED
Needle-type analogue VU meters are a symbolic design statement of Luxman’s solid state integrated amplifiers.
The Luxman L-507Z is equipped with a large dual meter with bright LED back-lighting and high response characteristics.
They have adopted such a display so the movement of the needles synchronises with the dynamics of your music.
In addition, newly included 7-segment LEDs display the attenuation level in between the left and right level meters so that the current attenuation amount can be easily seen from the listening position.
The level meter back-lighting and LED display can be turned on and off using the remote control.
Epos ES-28n
The new Epos ES-28N is the third model in the current EPOS line-up, and on top of it, it’s a 3-way loudspeaker made by a designer who is well known for doing 2-way systems even with bigger woofers.
So what changed his mind?
Experience! It’s just that a 2-way system is not working so well in a configuration with two woofers.
OK, there is the typical D’Appolito configuration with a woofer above or below a tweeter, but as the tweeter should be sitting around one metre, the speaker would end up as a huge tower.
Mounting the woofers below the tweeter would need a so called 2.5-way configuration.
In such a configuration, one of the two woofers stops working in the lower midband, and the second woofer covers the rest of the midband to connect to the tweeter.
That sounds like a good idea, but unfortunately, the main radiation axis for those two woofers would be tilted downwards, so it is difficult to manage the mid-frequency energy properly. So why not make it 3-way? OK, that’s what they did.
Just add source and speakers cable!
