Audiophilepure

Its fully machined aluminum enclosure creates an inert platform that’s difficult to replicate with wood or composite cabinets. This structural rigidity reduces resonances, panel flex, and stored energy, allowing the drivers and crossover to operate with remarkable transparency. The hybrid silk-dome lattice tweeter, horn-loaded and mounted on a sculpted aerospace-alloy frame, offers controlled directivity, low distortion, and broad dispersion without the harshness or edge often associated with metal-diaphragm designs. Paired with the quick, piston-like aluminum mid-bass driver, the Carmel 3 delivers exceptional coherence and wide-band linearity that surpasses its compact size and two-way configuration.

Equally impressive is the engineering sophistication of the Ultracoherent™ crossover. This network is not just a standard second-order filter but a highly optimized assembly of direct-path and auxiliary components guided by multi-domain simulations. Bench measurements confirm these design choices: low harmonic distortion across the spectrum, dominant 2nd-order harmonics for a warm sound, excellent off-axis response thanks to the horn-loaded tweeter, and a well-managed spectral decay with only minor high-frequency resonances.