iFi Retro Stereo 50
Old-School Looks, Modern Features, Timeless Sound: Groundbreaking iFi Retro Stereo 50 System Driven By EL84 Tube-Based Integrated Amp and Speakers which is the LS3.5 is iFi’s 21st century take on the legendary BBC LS3/5a.
Irresistible Match of Classic Design and Cutting-Edge Technology: Burr-Brown DAC, Bluetooth aptX, High-Resolution Digital, Vinyl All Sound Breathtaking on iFi Retro Stereo 50 System.
The ifi Retro Stereo 50 “all in one” sound system is not only a speaker system but also a vacuum tube headphone and speaker amplifier, digital to analog converter and phono pre-amplifier. All in one neat and sweet-looking solid Bamboo-constructed console. Retro 50 sound system will connect to virtually any music source from computer, smartphone, CD player or even a turntable.
iFi Retro Stereo 50 Vacuum-Tube Integrated Amplifier an Audiophile Dream Classic design and cutting-edge technology form an irresistible match on par with a lavish Hollywood romance both inside and outside the seductive Retro Stereo 50 vacuum-tube integrated amplifier. Loaded with four EL84X and two ECF82 tubes as well as advanced digital circuitry and a Burr-Brown DAC, the all-in-one Retro Stereo 50 looks like it comes out of hi-fi's golden age but sounds both timeless and modern thanks to cutting-edge features that make it thoroughly contemporary. Compatible with Bluetooth aptX streaming, high-resolution digital, vinyl, and basically every source in between, Stereo 50 primarily runs in Class A mode – meaning savory tonality and natural realism are always at hand no matter what music you play. And you can pick practically anything as your source. Stereo 50 is also equipped with iFi's 3D Holographic and XBass technologies, turning its built-in headphone amplifier into the equivalent of a private retreat.
LS3.5 Bookshelf Speakers Modeled on Legendary LS3/5A Monitors
Inspired by the legendary Rogers LS3/5A monitors, and accompanied by both cream and black grilles, the iFi Retro LS3.5 loudspeaker simultaneously honors and improves upon the timeless hi-fi speaker. Featuring in-house-designed 115mm paper-cone wideband drivers, a proprietary 28mm silk-dome tweeter, open-cell acoustic foam, maximum surface-contact gold-plated binding posts, and perfect tweeter-driver time alignment, Retro LS3.5 produces music with phenomenal accuracy, coherency, detail, dynamics, and naturalism. Longtime fans of the LS3/5A will be amazed. Listeners that have only heard about the acclaimed British speaker will immediately know they are in the presence of a truly special musical instrument. A solid bamboo cabinet and multi-chamber Voigt design chamber with tuned enclosure complement the proprietary tweeter and driver in reproducing music with breathtaking midrange, silky smooth treble, and taut bass all the while contributing no coloration of their own. Beautiful-looking and gorgeous-sounding, Retro LS3.5 triumphantly brings hi-fi's golden era into the present.
Bamboo Cabinet, Soft-Dome Tweeter, and Paper-Cone Driver Put Speakers Over the Top LS3.5's non-resonant bamboo cabinet is both environmentally friendly and sonically uncompromising. The cabinet is three times stronger than wood (yet only half its weight), perfectly time-aligned, has internal acoustic technology. The internal structure is finely tuned (sound bar/braces) via musical instrument manufacturing methods. All this, coupled with the Stereo 50's XBass and 3D Holographic for speakers' technologies, creates sonic synergy that is simply out of this world. The 28mm tweeter is horn-loaded and uses a neodymium magnet. The silk dome combines a lack of resonances at the top of the operating range (as found on metal domes) with excellent dynamics in band. The small neodymium magnet structure shifts cavity resonances outside the audible range. iFi's paper-cone 115mm wideband driver performs more akin to a full-range driver. Stamped steel baskets can dissipate energy much faster than cast types. Modern finite element modelling and modern materials have improved the driver in many areas (especially efficiency and bandwidth). The wideband driver rolls off after 8kHz. And it reaches down to 59Hz (with correct placement). LS3.5 has a coherency that is based upon the simple fact from the outset, the tweeter and driver are perfectly time-aligned. This means sound waves from both units arrive at ear of the listener at the same time (as opposed to at different times).
