Why Final
Why Final.
Voices and instruments sound real. The loudspeakers disappear and the musicians are with you in the room.
Explore01 / What you hear
Closer to the performance.
The breath before a phrase, a finger sliding along a guitar string, the air between the instruments: all of it is there. Voices and instruments sound real. The loudspeakers disappear and the musicians are with you in the room. Nothing added, nothing lost.
“Final Electrostatic speakers are a special breed, even among electrostatics.”
“In a living room you therefore have the illusion of being present at a live performance.”
02 / What Final does differently
Six differences,
in plain words.
Every electrostatic loudspeaker moves the air with a thin film. This is what Final does differently from most electrostatic loudspeakers.
- 01
The film keeps its sound for decades.
Final uses a film that is stronger, stiffer and more heat resistant than the film in almost every other electrostatic loudspeaker, so it keeps its tension, and its sound, for decades. Its conductive layer absorbs no moisture: the sound is the same in a humid summer as in a dry winter.
- 02
Flat stators that do not rust.
Final machines its stators from perfectly flat acrylic, so the film is pushed and pulled with the same force over its whole surface, for lower distortion. Acrylic cannot rust or corrode, it does not ring like metal, and there is no metal under voltage on the outside of the panel.
- 03
Treble and bass from one film.
Voices and instruments come from one surface, without a transition. The frequency division is printed into the stator itself. The full-range models need no woofer at all; in the models with a bass unit, it only takes over below 150 Hz, well below the human voice.
- 04
An ordinary amplifier is enough.
Many electrostatic loudspeakers need large, very stable power amplifiers. A Final has a sensitivity of 88 dB and a nominal impedance of 4 Ω: a good amplifier of 50 to 150 W is enough, and modern class D amplifiers drive it without difficulty.
- 05
60 to 100 cm from the wall is enough.
Like every panel that plays to the front and the back, a Final needs some space behind it, but 60 to 100 cm from the back wall is enough and the side walls may be close. Two people can easily carry a pair.
- 06
The smaller models hang on the wall.
The panels of the Final 1300, Final 1500 and Final 1700 can hang on the wall like a painting, as the Final 1310, Final 1510 and Final 1710.
Every Final is built by hand in the Netherlands, where the company was founded in 1989.
03 / How it works
Final WaveField™
Technology.
A thin, charged diaphragm sits between two perforated stators. The music signal changes the electric field between the stators; the field moves the film, and the film moves the air.
Look a little closer
Together.
Two perforated stators sit either side of an ultra-thin diaphragm. With no cabinet around it, the open panel radiates to the front and the rear, and voices and instruments keep their natural character.
The stators.
The music signal drives the two stators. Their field moves the diaphragm evenly across its whole surface, rather than pushing it from a single point.
The diaphragm.
An exceptionally light film is the only moving part. It starts and stops with the music, so the beginning of a note and the smallest detail remain intact.
Principle illustrated. Layers and spacing enlarged.
Two ways to move air
The difference
begins inside.
Both conventional and electrostatic loudspeakers turn an electrical signal into moving air. They take very different routes to get there.
Two ways to own a Final
Two ways
to own a Final.
Electrostatic loudspeakers
Ready to Play
A complete system: just add a streamer. Bass and amplification are built in, and your dealer delivers it and sets it up at home.
Final 1570 and Final 1770, and the panels Final 1300, 1500 and 1700
Explore Ready to Play
Full range electrostats
Ready to Configure
Full range from a single panel. Configured with your own amplifier, or by your dealer.
Final 3200, Final 3300 and Final 3900
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Final. As performed. Nothing added, nothing lost.
The next step is
a private listening.
Bring a track you know by heart.
Hear what Final brings to it.