Castle Compact Satellite Bookshelf speakers
Near other speaker systems these systems just get lost - so small they are. But, despite of this, Compact Satellite by firmness will show fight even medieval fortress: all walls are made of 15-mm MDF panels.
Castle Compact Satellite are finished also without discounts on sizes: all surfaces are carefully leveled and covered with natural veneer. And there is gloves-off inside too: high-quality polypropylene capacitors are installed in the crossover filters of the fourth order, the tweeter with a soft 20-mm dome plays an extended frequency range and 110-mm woofer has a carbon fibre diffuser and a giant for its sizes magnetic system.
Having such negligible sizes and internal volume, the speaker systems are like a closed box. Castle withdrew from bass-reflex in favor of much less effective acoustic design. Compact Satellite were initially developed as satellites for home theatre or 2.1 system, i.e. initially the presence of a subwoofer was implied. But the market had its own reaction on the novelty. It turned out that Satellite are often purchased as independent monitors. Why? Now we will try to understand this.
Listening. Let's start from bass. To what should we pay attention here? Subjectively, the systems sound with amazingly smooth tonal balance, if, surely, not to take the lowest range into account. Everything that lower 60-70 Hz is almost completely absent and can be filled only with a help of high-class subwoofer. But starting from the upper bass and higher the playing has very smooth, neutral and natural character. There are no buzzing side-tones, apparent coloring or distortions - if there are any failures in musical balance, they are miserable. The systems attract by sound, awaken perception and make you listen to each track till the end, and this is the sure sign of high musicality.
By the way, about the distortions. When the speaker systems, all the drivers of which have such a small area of radiation that it can be easily closed with the hand, stand before you, you increase the volume warily - what if they burn out? But the power level, which Castle Compact Satellite can withstand and not to burn out and even not to croak, amazes. Even at very high sound pressures these micro monitors continue to sound clearly! Well, maybe voices become a bit sharper and tension arises, but there are not apparent distortions at all.
