What would be a good size for my listening room
and how should it be treated?
There are a great number of good listening room dimensions but one of them is the IEC room of 26’ x 16’ x 10’. Having a room that keeps the same dimension ratios can also work well. The idea is to make sure that none of your room dimensions is an exact multiple of another. Ratios of 1.6, 1.618 and 1.625 are usually good. We design our loudspeakers to integrate well in normally furnished living rooms. No additional room treatment is required, unless you have severe echo problems. Should it be the case, your dealer should be your best reference for proper advice.
What amplifier should I use with Verity Audio’s products?
Because of their musicality, all Verity Audio’s loudspeakers will perform well with accurate, detailed and wide bandwidth amplifiers. Our main loudspeaker line performs well at low power but performs even better with added power. As an example, the Parsifal performs very well at 50 watts RMS but will yield exceptional effortlessness with additional power. The easy-to-drive Fidelio impedance makes it a good loudspeaker for low-power single-ended amplifiers as well as high-power solid-state amplifiers. Because of their higher sensitivity, our eXR loudspeakers (Lohengrin and Sarastro) will do very well with a wider range of amplification. If you plan to use vacuum tube amplification, we strongly recommend using an 8-ohm impedance tap. Your dealer should be your best reference in helping you to make a proper selection.
What is the minimum impedance of my loudspeaker?
| Loudspeaker | Minimum Impedance |
Frequency |
| Lohengrin | 4.4 ohms | 85 Hz |
| Sarastro | 5.2 ohms | 100 Hz |
| Parsifal | 4.9 ohms | 104 Hz |
| Parsifal Monitor | 6.8 ohms | 200 Hz |
| Fidelio | 5.7 ohms | 220 Hz |
| Tamino x2, c2 | 7.6 ohms | 230 Hz |
| Tamino Monitor, h2 & v2 | 7.8 ohms | 220 Hz |
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What would you recommend for speaker or interconnect cables?
Cables are the last piece of equipment you should buy to complete your audio system. Combining your loudspeakers with your room and electronics will personalize your setup giving a special character to your sound, which can be harmonized and balanced by a proper cable selection. Your dealer should be your best reference in this matter. Remember that all Verity Audio loudspeakers are inherently neutral and very well balanced, therefore fast and neutral cables would be a good and advisable choice.
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Can I bi-wire or bi-amplify my loudspeaker?
All the Tamino loudspeakers, the Fidelio and the Parsifal are single wired. The Parsifal can be bi-wired or bi-amped with an optional external filter. Finally, the Sarastro and Lohengrin can both be bi-wired and bi-amped. Do not attempt to bi-wire and bi-amp the Parsifal. The Parsifal Monitor has a high-pass section located inside the woofer cabinet and a direct connection to the Parsifal Monitor will bypass this section and allow the Parsifal Monitor to work at full range. This will considerably limit the dynamic range, increase distortion and overly boost the upper bass.
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Are the Verity Audio loudspeakers compatible
with the new high-resolution digital format?
Any loudspeaker can be compatible with these new formats but not all of them can be accurate enough to produce the full potential of this new technology. Our eXR line (Sarastro and Lohengrin) and the new Parsifal Ovation can accurately reproduce any extended range signal up to 60 kHz, at high precision and high dynamic.
The Parsifal system has been chosen in several demonstrations of the 24 bits 96 kHz as a reference loudspeaker. Chesky Records has first introduced this new technology at the WCES of January 1997 with the Parsifal loudspeaker. Chesky Records, Classic Records and dCS are still using the Parsifal as a reference speaker in their studios.
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Buying a loudspeaker with a rearward-oriented woofer makes me feel uncomfortable. I am afraid of getting audible phase and delay errors. How do you address these issues?
The advantages of a rearward-oriented woofer configuration are so high that their combination easily overcomes any audible effects that could be created by a minor woofer phase or delay error. The low crossover frequency of our woofers will minimize this effect to an insignificant level. Please refer to our PDF document about “Low Frequency Reproduction” for further information. It demonstrates how, a properly designed rearward-oriented woofer configuration, reduces distortion, increases the dynamic range and the overall coherence, and increases the bass level and extension for a given size of loudspeaker, and for a given size of room.
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Should I use my Parsifal with the woofer module
facing the front or the rear?
To get the full benefits of the Parsifal bass reproduction, we recommend you to setup the Parsifal with its woofer facing the rear. Should it be impossible, placing the woofer facing the front will also work well. Such conditions will happen when you either have, an opened space behind the speakers, too much absorption or diffusion around the speakers, the speakers too far away from the back wall, or the speakers located very close to the back wall.
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I like to have quick, tight and well-controlled bass.
Is it true that a large-diameter woofer like the one used in
the Lohengrin might be lacking speed?
A: It's been a misconception to think that because smaller woofers are quicker they sound better. What's important here is how quick you move the air. A larger cone travels less to displace the same amount of air. Therefore to displace the same air-volume, a 7.5-inch woofer will need to be 4 times quicker than a 15-inch woofer. The end result is the same except that the 15-inch woofer needs less speed and creates less distortion. A properly designed 15-inch woofer can be even relatively quicker if we speak about cubic-inch per second. The Lohengrin’s 15-inch woofer belongs to this category. Trying to achieve similar results by using a combination of multiple small-diameter woofers is generally a cheaper method packed with compromises.
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It’s a well-known fact that many hybrid loudspeakers combining standard midrange with ribbon tweeter have integration problems. How Verity Audio did address this matter?
It’s true that a good number of loudspeakers exhibit improper ribbon tweeter integration. The component synergy is one of Verity Audio’s highest criteria and we wouldn’t use such a combination if impossible. Integration problems will occur with any kind of driver combinations. Those problems will be more obvious to the listener with a poorly integrated ribbon tweeter. The similarity of the dispersion, dynamic and distortion characteristics are key elements in assuring a good match between two drivers. Furthermore, those characteristics should be weighted according to the psychoacoustics. Their interrelation is rather complex and an exhaustive explanation would be inappropriate. However, here’s a brief sum up on how we achieve our integration: We use short-length (2-inch) ribbon tweeter allowing for a good dispersion homogeneity, we crossover at high frequency (around 5,000 Hz) and use a high-speed midrange that exhibits an upper frequency dispersion that complies very well with the ribbon specifications.
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What is the warranty on the Verity Audio products?
Verity Audio’s products are covered by a five years limited warranty. If a second hand pair of Verity Audio product is purchased from an authorized Verity Audio dealer, then, the warranty is transferable to the new owner.
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