Quadral Shogun Pure
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General
- Manufacturer: Quadral / Saturn
- Model: Quadral Shogun Pure
- Year of manufacture: ca. 2004
- Manufactured in:
- Color:
- Dimensions:
- Weight:
- New price approx.: 399,00 Euro (799,00 Euro list price)
Technical Data
- Construction:
- Chassis:
- list chassis here
Power handling (nominal/music): 2x100/150 Watt efficiency:
- Frequency response: 30 - 60,000 Hz
- crossover ranges: (for LS with multiple drivers).
- Impedance:
Special Equipment
- list here
Remarks[edit]
The Quadral Shogun is a classic speaker from the 80s. In 2004, in a cooperation between Quadral and Saturn, a new speaker was released under this name, which bears the name Shogun but is equipped with the latest technology. The list price is said to be 799 €, but Saturn never intended to sell the speakers for more than 399 € each. This money is the piece also worth. The workmanship is very high quality, largely made of real wood, the front covered with velvet, the cover is very high quality and over the entire front, the connection base provided with a plexiglass pane.
The sound of the Saturn Shogun is very decent, but not exactly neutral. Very solid bass foundation, the treble very clean. The latter could be due to the ribbon tweeters, which are a specialty in this price range. So from the sound of the price appropriate, from the processing clearly above what you otherwise get in the price range.
The Shogun of the "Saturn Series" have a radial radiator as tweeter. According to Quadral, the frequency response is 'open' up to 50,000 Hz. On an SACD source driven by a YAMAHA RX-V4600, this statement is only acoustically comprehensible after modification, even if one takes into account that the differences to the standard medium CD are basically not exorbitant, but rather subtle. 2x 100Watt nominal power (sinus) provide sufficient power. Unfortunately Quadral made a design mistake. Ribbon tweeters, as used in the original series, have to use a transformer. This combination causes a special phase shift that has to be considered in the crossover. The combination of transformer and ribbon tweeter was apparently simply replaced by the radial radiator. This is unpleasantly noticeable in the sound. Due to the lack of a subsequent possibility to compensate by means of an adapted crossover, the polarity of the radial radiators was reversibly reversed on two test objects (gold plated high current connectors). The result was convincing in terms of frequency response, fine detail and fidelity. The colorations disappear with the modification.
Basically, the Shogun reaches a good HiFi level with the described modification. All positive characteristics mentioned in the upper part are as described there. Furthermore, it is worth mentioning that the (Saturn) Shogun has bi-wiring terminals.