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Kudos Cardea C20 Loudspeakers

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Discontinued

             

£4,600.00

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Key Features

  • 2-Way bass reflex floorstander
  • 25-watt - 200-watt recommended power
  • SEAS-Kudos Crescendo K2 29mm fabric dome
  • High-quality Mundorf inductors and resistors
  • 5-Year warranty (when registered) 
 
If you’re seriously tempted by the sound of the Cardea Super 20A but have a little less budget to play with, then the Cardea C20 is the one to audition. Built along very similar lines to the Super 20A, it offers a “gratifyingly spacious but precisely defined soundstage” (Hi-Fi News) and “jaw-dropping transient abilities” (Hi-Fi World). In common with all of the Cardea series models, the C20 is a terrific communicator. It brings the full, vivid detail of your music to life - from soaring and swooping highs to an agile and precise bass, and never leaving out those ever-vital minutiae such as the skin-tingling background sounds of a great live session. Its easy 8-ohm impedance means that the C20 will partner effortlessly with a wide range of valve and solid-state amplifiers.
 
 
Kudos’ bespoke drivers are custom designed in collaboration with leading European experts, SEAS. All four Cardea series models feature our Crescendo K2 fabric dome tweeter, a development of SEAS’ superb (and justifiably costly) Crescendo unit re-engineered exclusively for Kudos. Kudos’ bespoke drivers are custom designed in collaboration with leading European experts, SEAS. All four Cardea series models feature our Crescendo K2 fabric dome tweeter, a development of SEAS’ superb (and justifiably costly) Crescendo unit re-engineered exclusively for Kudos. The C20s use a custom 180mm mid-bass unit with a die-cast chassis with large open areas, a coated paper cone and a 39mm voice coil designed for low distortion, high linearity and low crossover modulation.
 
The purer the signal, the truer the sound. A Kudos loudspeaker preserves a clean and clear audio signal by favouring a minimal design with our trademark, low-order crossover. The C20’s superb quality components, including Mundorf inductors and resistors, and ClarityCap capacitors, are tailored specifically for Kudos to stringent tolerances.
 
Since bass plays a powerful role in how we hear music, our floorstanding Cardeas pay particular attention to delivering superior sound at the all-important lower end. The C20’s fixed boundary bass reflex loading is key to a more agile, nuanced, textured and detailed bass reproduction while minimising room interactions.
The Cardea series’ modernist aesthetic looks elegantly simple on the outside, yet the inside is reassuringly hard-working. In a true marriage of form and function, design and materials combine to effectively manage unwanted vibrations while leaving the natural dynamics of your music blissfully undisturbed.
 
 
 
 
Who are Kudos Audio?
 
Kudos Audio is one of the fastest-growing high-performance loudspeaker brands in the UK. Deliberately daring to move beyond the traditional rulebook, Kudos takes an uncommon approach to loudspeaker design. The Kudos team combines its own considerable know-how in audio design and live sound engineering with the skills of several leading European suppliers to create unique, bespoke components and solutions. Every single Kudos loudspeaker is then hand-built, in England. A Kudos loudspeaker is therefore a genuine original. And your emotional experience? One of a kind.

 

Type

 

2-way, Isobaric bass reflex, floorstander

 

Recommended amplifier power detail

 

25W-200W

 

Sensitivity

@ 1W 1m 88dB

 

Nominal impedance

8 ohms

 

Frequency range

30Hz – 30kHz AIRR (average in-room response)

 

Tweeter

SEAS – Kudos Crescendo K2 29mm fabric dome

 

Mid/bass driver

Kudos 180mm unit with solid cast chassis, coated paper cone and 26mm voice coil

Speaker Dimensions

925mm (h) x 200mm (w) x 270mm (d)

 

UK Delivery

Providing your item is in stock, the order is usually dispatched within 24 hours. Postage and packing is completely free for orders over £99*. Out of stock items will be dispatched as soon as they become available, which can take between 4 to 21 days      

UK Delivery orders are sent via our couriers' DPD Local on a next-day-delivery service and usually take between 1 and 3 days. 

          

Local Delivery

Certain manufacturers disallow mail order for their products, however a local delivery may be possible.

We offer a local delivery service for a large number of our products. After your order has been placed, a member of the Hifi Gear team will contact you to arrange a convenient date and time for your local, personal delivery.

 

Click & Collect

We offer a free ‘Click & Collect’ service on all items. As soon as your order has been completed and is ready for collection a member of our team will be in contact with you. Orders can be collected from our store at 11 King Street, Hereford, HR4 9BW.

 

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