Total Eclipse?

摘要

A striking-looking speaker for sure, but can Eclipse's replacement for its renown 512 live up to the company's promises of 'rich stereo sound'? Opinions are divided... As someone who has campaigned for the replacement of box speaker cabinets with curved forms for 20 years and more, you can imagine my interest when some years ago I first saw a photograph of one of Fujitsu Ten's new Eclipse models. Their distinctive teardrop-shaped cabinets embody two key advantages over conventional slab-sided offerings: they are significantly stiffer because of their curvature, which promises reduced cabinet coloration; and they provide a smoother shape for the radiated wavefront to diffract around, which eliminates or at least reduces the short-delay reflections which occur at sharp cabinet edges.