Naim Ovator S-600 OVATOR S-600 사용자 설명서

Surgical grade, anti-

magnetic, stainless steel 

M8 floor spikes define the 

vital mechanical interface 

between speaker and 

the floor of the listening 

environment.

A steel leaf-spring 

defines the interface 

between enclosure and 

plinth and decouples 

above 12Hz.

The pressure die-cast 

plinth incorporates 

enclosure interface 

locations, housing for 

the crossover, and floor 

spike fittings with top-

access adjustment.

Incorporates features 

on its mating surface 

that consistently define 

its interface with the 

cabinet and help manage 

vibrational energy.

The crossover 

incorporates state of the 

art components including 

laminated and air-cored 

inductors, and metallised 

polypropylene capacitors.

The enclosure is 

constructed from a 

combination of 25mm 

and 50mm panels 

comprehensively braced 

to provide a rigid, non-

resonant and low diffraction 

reference plane for the 

drivers. Selected panels also 

benefit from strategic mass-

damping, and the internal 

bracing includes a division 

that creates separate loading 

volumes for each bass driver.

The Ovator Balanced Mode Radiator (BMR) constitutes its most visible technological 
advance, yet its performance is equally the result of painstaking refinement in 
numerous elements of design, construction and material selection. For example, 
there is so much more to the musical reproduction of bass than low frequency 
extension, so the Ovator LF drivers are designed not simply to play bass, but to do 
so with faultless musical accuracy. They incorporate a multitude of electro-acoustic 
details aimed at minimising distortion and compression, and the result is extended 
bass with peerless timing, dynamics and pitch accuracy. One vital element in the 
design of a high performance bass driver is its chassis. Great rigidity and an open 
structure are vital but potentially conflicting requirements, so the Ovator pressure 
die-cast bass driver chassis incorporates a triangulated framework, the product of 
finite-element analysis, that ensures both rigidity and unimpeded air passage.

Ovator crossover networks are housed within the plinth and divide the audio signal 
between bass drivers and BMR with fourth order acoustic slopes at 380Hz in the 
case of the S-600 and 700Hz in the case of the S-400. Each component selection is 
the result of intense technical analysis and significant listening, and the component 
arrangement is fundamentally informed by the layout and earthing techniques 
developed for Naim power amplifiers. A crossover module suspension system and 
individual component decoupling ensures any chance of microphony is minimised. 
Conversion to either bi-amp or tri-amp active drive is easily achieved through removal 
of the crossover module*. 

Just as much as it is BMR technology, it is the fine detail and the sum of the parts – 
the result of decades of speaker experience and development – that make the Ovator 
S-600 and S-400 so remarkable.

The Ovator up close

Ovator bass drivers feature rigid paper cones, natural 

rubber surrounds and aluminium demodulations 

rings within their neodymium magnet systems. The 

S-600 bass drivers additionally incorporate generous 

pole-piece ventilation. The linearity and resistance to 

compression of both Ovator bass drivers is outstanding.