HAT New Unity Components & Small Form Factor DLS Class D and A/B Amps

Always keen to research and improve, the designer of Hybrid Audio Technologies’ astonishingly successful and sweet-sounding car loudspeakers has not rested upon his laurels. Rather, Scott E. Buwalda has done more time at the design table and come up with what for the brand is to be a new level of accessibility for his designs. Call it mid-entry level if you like but these component loudspeakers for cars are priced as the second most affordable of the HAT line, yet are comfortably well above what most makers can charge for component loudspeakers at the top end!.
A ‘˜Hybird of some Hybrids’ Dave from Matrix did explain all the changes and tweaks and inclusions to make the new Unity component speakers. These shall be priced at £325 a set for the six and a half and will still feature the cool inverted suspsension system used by the really posh speakers at the top end as well. They sit between the entry level Imagine system at £250 still more than most makers can charge for their better ones and the lofty Clarus line at £500 a set of the sixes.
The Unity speakers have the same cast ABS speaker chassis, same spider and waterproof cones used in the Imagine speakers and have posh crossovers, too. These feature high quality low tolerance polypropylene and electrolytic capacitors and air-core inductors. All encased in the same sexy Clarus crossover housings with the mass of Gold plated screw terminals. The Unity system even gets the C1 tweeter from the Clarus system, so these really are a slice of technology for less money.
Power 20 150W
Pasband 50Hz to 22kHz (Midbass does 50Hz to 6500Hz)
Sensitivuty 93.2dB @ 2.83V @1m
Xmax of midbass 12mm very compliant!

DLS Reference Mini
Over on the DLS front, the Scandinavians have finally approved a Class D amplifier. Noted for its very small form factor i.e. it is little, it has a signal to noise ratio of better than 100dB and is part of the new RM or Reference Mini series of amps. This Class D effort is the RM10 and is the monoblock. The others are classic Class AB but are made in much smaller chassis than normal. With stereo and four channel models available, there’s also a three channel effort which is a rare beast.
The RM10 has a cool variable 50 to 80Hz low pass filter that can be set to operate at a normal 12dB per Octave or else at a much steeper 24dB per Octave a real high end feature. It has a sane max of 6dB of bass boost which is much less likely to blow stuff up or ruin your bass musicality and has a lovely remote control on a wire that actually uses the 3.5mm jack plug rather than the stupid and easy to break while threading under carpets phone plug system most makers use.
For those who may need to, there’s even a 180 degree phase shift switch you can flip to see if the complexities of your very own cabin make this sound better or if you connect it wrong! Finally, for the £299.00 asking price, you also get an Auxiliary output for daisy-chaining additional amplifiers, meaning less RCA cords are needed. It has 280W of CEA rated power and has 40A of fusing.

Last of all, you need to know that all products sold by Matrix Audio are subject to a TWO year warranty it’s just how he’s always rolled.
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