An Enviable Start

There are numerous speakers that produce unquestionably great sound, however many are either too large, unsightly or require too much power to be practical in many modern living spaces. Transform your living room, office or nook with a pair of Carbon or Kevlar one-piece spherical enclosures, utilising a single DBA super-wide-band 80mm Carbon/Kevlar Polycomposite driver in each with either an internal Class-T amplifier or passively from an amplifier of your choice. 

You will find it hard to better the Envy1's immersive capability in an equal form factor.

The Envy1 delivers an expansive sound with impressive pin-sharp accuracy in a compact yet attractive modern aesthetic.

• Homogeneous 1-piece Carbon Fibre Spheres.
• Unique Internal Texturing Delivering Unrivalled Resonance Reduction.
• 360 Degree Driver to Enclosure Coupling Minimising Mechanical Distortion.
• Unmatched Spherical Enclosure Diffraction Coefficient with Dedicated DBA Lensing Algorithm.
• Enclosures Produced with Balanced Layers of Premium Grade Carbon Fibre used in Formula 1 and Military Applications.
• Autoclave Cured Enclosures Over 100psi and Temperatures Exceeding 150 Degree C
• Precision Machined Aviation Grade Aluminium used Throughout the Internal and External Sphere Construction.
• Fine Particulate Filled Legs to Isolate the Performance with a CofG close to the Ground.
• High natural rubber self healing diaphragm membrane to couplr the base to any flat surface.
• Quad-Core 399 Strand per Core at 0.1mm Cryogenically Adjusted Ultra Oxygen Free Copper Integral Cabling with Choice of Cold-Welded Final Connections.
• Cabling Physically and Electrically Protected with and Earthed Polyester/Terephthalate Sheathing Matrix.
• Choice of DBA 16 Application Lacquer Finish for the Smoothest Spatial Integration or the DBA High Voltage Electro-Static Flocked Finish Maximising the Point-Source Nature of the Driver-Sphere Combination.
• Colours and tints available on request.

The more consistent an enclosure can be, dynamically both internally and externally, the more consistent and accurate to the source material the reproduction is.

The general constructs of carbon-fibre are well known to many; it is light, very strong, air and water tight and can be manipulated into nearly any shape imaginable and it has unmatched electrical properties for a material of its thickness and density.

The 1-piece spherical enclosures and lenses and external surface finishing designed and developed by DBA and MCT Engineering Ltd offer a level of transparency and uncoloured sound that is as close to the reference as possible.

The spherical enclosure used through the DBA range provide exceptional clarity of reproduction and imagery by the combination of a non-resonant, low diffraction enclosures together with a 360 degree bonded lens coupling of the source driver to the enclosure surface, far lower than any box design can achieve.

In the DBA design the Carbon-fibre acts as an acoustic sink for the drivers yet the mass is minimal relative to the competition, resulting in less mass redundancy in the overall loudspeaker design.

Note the lack of ‘porting’ in the DBA range. Instead we prefer the accurate pistonic application of the sound field and where convenient to do so we employ passive drivers to extend the natural spectral range of the loudspeaker, as such our loudspeakers do not suffer adverse port resonance effects in the audible field.

Through extensive research from the initial spheres made in 2005, we now have a consistent high-pressure forming process (100psi) which in one single process forms the sphere and builds a non-uniform texturing of the internal spherical surface. This surfacing, through experimentation, has resulted in measurable degradation in resonance and eliminates the need for non-environmentally sound internal dampening materials.