Cardea C2

The C2 is an elegantly styled floorstander designed using a similar recipe to the C1 stand-mount. The larger ported cabinet is constructed from 18mm high density MDF specifically chosen for its acoustic properties and beautifully finished with real wood veneer.  The reflex port is situated on the bottom of the cabinet to enable more flexibility in placement within the listening room.  The fixed plinth provides a fixed boundary gap for the port to work optimally as well as providing additional stability.  Internally the cabinet is optimally damped and braced and the tweeter is mounted in its own chamber to isolate it from the compression effects of the main unit.  Both of the drivers are neatly rebated into the cabinet and the grille is mounted via magnets to maintain a clean appearance.

The main driver is an 18cm unit manufactured with a cast chassis for high stability and a coated paper cone; the unit has been specifically designed to optimally utilise the larger cabinet volume.  The tweeter unit is a 25mm fabric dome unit more usually found in significantly more expensive designs and has a superb quality of treble. Excellent integration between the drive units allows a low order crossover to be used for minimal electrical interaction with the signal.

The C2 uses its extra size to add improved bass extension and greater scale to the presentation of the music over the C1, but maintains the open and accurate midrange and a subtly detailed treble.  Like the C1 the easy 8 ohm impedance means that the loudspeaker will work well with a wide range of valve and solid state amplifiers.