Usher Speakers
Usher Be-718
Description
Introducing the Global Design Project beryllium-domed Be-718s. These captivating, high performance monitor speakers are engineered with the finest hand-picked components sourced from around the world. We always look for the absolute best price/performance ratio from our suppliers wherever they are, creating real value for you. Our Global Design Project is the key to the Be-718's Amazing Sound and Surprising Value!
The Be-718 story begins with MusikMatters' CEO Atul Kanagat visiting high-end dealers to learn what their customers really wanted. It seemed clear that everyone's looking for easy-to-place great sounding monitor speakers that look as beautifully finished as they sound. Plus one other small thing: They have to offer outstanding value! That's not asking too much, is it? Atul worked closely with Usher, and in a surprisingly short time, the latest addition to the Usher Dancer line appeared, the Tiny Dancers!
Just how global is our design project? The high technology drivers, crossovers, and perfectly timed-aligned cabinets are designed and built by Mr. Tsai Lien Shui at Usher Taiwan, with finishing cosmetics supplied by a firm in the United Kingdom. Dr. Joseph D'Appolito, Usher's long-serving technical consultant, provides crossover tuning here in the 'States. Crossover parts and JPS Labs internal wiring are made in the USA. Design wizard Danny Richie, of Texas based GR-Research, boosts the stock crossover's performance to unprecedented levels by selecting premium crossover parts, altering parts values, re-tuning baffle step compensation and smoothing out the speaker's vertical off axis response.
The Be-718s feature beautifully-crafted and lustrously-finished cabinets plus advanced beryllium oxide tweeters for smoothly extended highs. A new mid-woofer controls and articulates the bass, providing a solid foundation for an open and inviting midrange. The integration, extension, solidity, speed and clarity of the Be-718s uncover low-level detail usually lost in the noise floor of less resolving speakers. They are certainly one of the finest and most satisfying values on the market today.
Audition the beryllium-domed Be-718s and find out why everyone's talking about our Global Design Project and their Amazing Sound and Surprising Value!
Features:
Be Beryllium Tweeter
JPS Labs Alumiloy internal wiring
Front ports for easy placement
Dancer-style best quality speaker terminals
Cosmetics redesign by Kam Young in the UK
Retuned crossovers featuring all new/upgraded parts as follows:
Erse high-purity oxygen free copper air-core inductors
Mills resistors
Sonicaps
Erse poly caps
Gen.2 Sonicaps
Specifications
| 2-way System |
tweeter 1.25" (9980-20BEA), mid-bass 7" (8948A) |
| Sensitivity |
87 dB @ 1 watt / 1m |
| Nominal Impedance |
8 ohms |
| Frequency Response (-3 dB) |
42 Hz ~ 35 kHz |
| Power Handling |
200 watts |
| Crossover Frequencies |
2.06 kHz |
| Weight |
37.9 lbs |
| Dimensions (w x d x h) |
10.2" x 16.9" x 15.2" |
| Shipping Weight |
82 lbs |
| Shipping Box (w x d x h) |
24" x 19.1" x 18.9" |
Awards
Be-718
Winner! 6Moons.com Blue Moon Award. 6Moons.com
Be-718
Winner! SoundStage.com Reviews Choice Award. SoundStage.com
Be-718
Winner! 2007 Absolute Sound Product of the Year. Absolute Sound
Be-718
Winner! 2008 CES Design and Engineering Innovations Award. CES
6 Moons Be-718
John Potis, 6moons Review "Exceptionally endearing and involving ... If I were in the market for a stand mount these would be my first choice..." 6Moons.com
Stereophile Review of Be-718
John Atkinson, Stereophile Online "This is a speaker that deserves review coverage in Stereophile..." Stereophile
avguide review of Be-718
Jacob Heilbrunn, TAS Reviewer "The Usher Be-718s punched way above their weight... How on earth they could fill up a large room with that much sound remains a mystery to me. The crescendos reached true fortissimo levels." AV Guide
