Mowgan Audio Reference Loudspeakers

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Mabon:- From the ancient Celts - .... the Son of Light, of liberation, harmony, music and unity

"Elegant & sophisticated, invocative & soulful - supreme"

The Mabon is the penultimate model in our range of five main speakers and had to be rather special in order to better the acclaimed Mellt. To allow us to better the Mellt we had the midrange drivers especially commissioned to our own specification by one of the worlds leading loudspeaker designers and manufacturers. This was no mean feat but we simply couldn't better the Mellt without a purpose made driver designed for our exact requirements.

Our effort has been truly rewarded and we present to you one of the finest loudspeakers available today. The clarity of voice and instrumentation is something to behold, the sense of space and imaging is beyond doubt and these are just a few of its many strengths.

Complimenting the mid band clarity is the bass reproduction which goes deeper than the Mellt but with more poise, control and detail, nothing is overlooked in this most exciting model.

Emotion is the key delivery mechanism for the Mabon, listen to a piece of music and you will immediately relate to the artist and the message held within the melody and rhythm of the music, you are no longer a bystander but a part of the performance.

Some history

While we could have invested huge sums of money in developing our own drive units, it would have been a huge development cost and steep learning curve for us here at Mowgan. We had neither the financial ability or the time to fully learn the complexities of drive unit manufacture, we did however reach a compromise. From years of testing with off the shelf units we knew what the likely differences were likely to be when subtle changes were made to things like diaphragm geometry, motor construction and cone material . So we started with what we thought to be some of the best off the shelf drivers available today and we either worked with the manufacturer to amend these slightly to our own specification or we bought them and modified them ourselves. The results are clear to be heard in our range from the Artio up.

The Mabon has been a labour of love for us at Mowgan, while both company directors have used Ogmas in their reference systems for a some time now, we had eventually to back down to the fact that our spouses demanded a little more room than the Ogmas allowed. The Mabons therefore had to be an exceptional loudspeaker, and as these were to be our own source of music we wouldn't accept anything less than near perfect. As with all of our cabinets the Mabons are machined using high precision CNC routers before being assembled and veneered by hand. The cabinet is essentially two cabinets in one, with the midrange unit residing in its' own enclosure within the main cabinet. This allows us to separate the midrange cone from the internal pressures generated by the bass unit, and to apply a different level of damping as demanded by the different drive units themselves. The cabinets are shaped to provide an aesthetic appeal which looks to have less depth than they actually do while the internal shape helps with standing wave dispersal. To aid the control of unwanted flexing of the cabinet under load the cabinet is braced with 4 braces, while dampening material of different thicknesses and compliance is used in different areas of the cabinet itself.

Technical Specification3 way bass reflex featuring an 8" bass unit designed using a laminate of different polypropylene films and adhesives to provide a five-layer sandwich cone which improves accuracy and consistency of sound reproduction over the entire frequency range. The midrange unit is custom built to our own specification and is the same as that used in the Ogma. With high power handling abilities excellent on and off axis frequency response characteristics and superb in-band response curves and tonality this really sets the standard in mid range response at this price point.The tweeter uses a specially wound aluminum voice coil for a low distortion smooth on and off axis response.17 Element crossover.

Power Rating   120W Max
 Efficiency  89db/2.83V
 Impendence  Typical 6 Ohms Minimum 4.9 Ohms @100Hz
 Freq Response  38Hz-21Khz +/-3db
 Size  101.0cm 27.2cm 34.2cm
 Weight 33Kg
 Finish  Maple, Cherry, Walnut Others available on request

Technical Specification The crossover is the heart of any loudspeaker system, while it would not be true to say that a crossover could make a bad driver sound good, it would be equally true to say that a wrongly designed crossover could make the best drivers available today sound terrible.

We at Mowgan spend the majority of our time on the crossover design this not only has an impact on sound quality but also how it behaves on the supporting amplifier. Avoidance of huge phase swings and impedance swings helps dynamics and timing across the frequency range, while the crossover components themselves can affect sibilance and dynamic behaviour under high volume use.

A little understood factor is the Cabinet design. We use the latest in CAD software to do frequency distribution across the cabinet bracing sections, we then confirm this by using accelerometer measurements to ensure the minimum of additional sound entering the room.

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