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KS Audio and Joep Slooten – Hyperion iP3.5

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Pros

  • Highly dynamic behavior
  • Effortless
  • Complete
  • What a level of finishing!

Cons

  • Really need a big space!

Price: € 20000

Build quality
Usability
Sound
Price

Measurements and conclusion

Contents

We also measured the speaker. We did that with a CLIO12 with QC package. A DPA4061 was used as the measurement microphone.

As mentioned, the Joep Slooten Hyperion measures awfully straight. This is an in-room measurement with a window of 13ms. Response from 200 Hz is usable. But we can also see – without window – that 20 Hz is just met.

Especially the phase is terribly straight. From 80 Hz the Firtec system doesn’t work (can’t), and it shows. Everything above that is just dead straight. We measure it within /- 1 degree, which is just perfect.

We see in our measurement – but that may be due to the position of the microphone – a resonance point around 2500 Hz. It’s still pretty low, so we can’t call it a problem.

Distortion is low (not very surprising), but runs a bit wacky. This could be due to the CLIO (we do have some quibbles with the system in this area), or to the DSP that’s in it. Either way, everything is well below the audible limit when we convert.

All in all, very neat results in any case!

Conclusion

What a special speaker this is! It really is a very successful marriage! An insanely beautiful cabinet with a state of the art piece of technology inside. Make sure you have a big room, so these beasts can really breathe and show what they are good at: reproducing music with convincing dynamics and with a full spectrum! Looking for something really different and really good? Then be sure to check out this Hyperion by Joep Slooten.
Type test
Single Test
Speaker class
Floor standing speaker
Speaker type
Dynamic
Speaker system
Bass reflex
Signal control
Active
Frequency range
20 Hz - 25000 Hz
Crossover
Other
Amplifier power (total)
1600 Watt
Dimensions
    Production country
    Netherlands
    Measurements
    response vs vervorming
    response vs vervorming
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    Joep Slooten KS Audio - waterfall- 1m
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    Joep Slooten KS Audio - waterfall- analasys
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