Voices come alive with the Sirocco Center, where clarity, control, and natural tone define the cinematic experience.

OVERVIEW

The Sirocco Center speaker is the anchor of a refined home cinema. Engineered to deliver dialogue with exceptional clarity, presence, and natural tone. Designed to integrate seamlessly with the Sirocco series, it combines precision driver technology with a meticulously tuned cabinet to ensure voices sound lifelike, intelligible, and emotionally authentic. Powerful yet controlled, the Sirocco Center brings balance and coherence to the entire soundstage, allowing every performance to unfold with elegance, authority, and realism.

FEATURES

Equipped with a lightweight 20 mm silk dome featuring progressive breakup characteristics, the WSD20DND04F tweeter incorporates an optimized waveguide crafted from die-cast molded aluminum. This construction eliminates vibrations and closely aligns the tweeter’s temporal origin with that of the C150 mid-woofer. Paired with a precisely calibrated phase equalizer, the design improves efficiency and delivers nearly constant directivity across the entire frequency range, ensuring refined and accurate sound reproduction.

The motor assembly, optimized through extensive dynamic simulations (FEA) and prototyping, features a dual neodymium ring made from ultra-high-grade ND52H material, generating a magnetic flux of 14,500 gauss within a tall gap. This configuration ensures excellent linearity (±0.25 mm excursion) and optimal thermal dissipation. A CCAW voice coil, shorter than the magnetic gap, combines low mass with high strength and is mounted on an ultra-thin aluminum former for improved rigidity and heat conduction. Ferrofluid further enhances thermal dissipation while contributing to damping.

The vented motor opens into an injection-molded aluminum rear chamber, which aids in heat dissipation and is precisely calibrated to absorb the rear wave. This design helps control excursion and reduce distortion at low frequencies outside the unit’s operational range.

With a high sensitivity of 97 dB (2.83 V / 1 m), this tweeter is engineered for exceptional performance and reliability. When integrated into a speaker system, its output level is intentionally attenuated by the crossover—by 4 to 8 dB, depending on the rear-panel switch setting—to match the accompanying mid-woofer. Since a tweeter’s thermal power handling is typically two to four times lower than that of a mid-woofer, this attenuation proportionally reduces the power delivered to the tweeter, harmonizing dynamics across the system.

This approach ensures optimal sound reproduction, minimizes distortion and thermal compression in the high-frequency range, and delivers consistent power handling across the full speaker bandwidth, enhancing overall system reliability while preserving signal accuracy.

Each component of this tweeter is manufactured with exceptional precision, and final assembly in our workshops receives meticulous attention to detail. Quality control includes a frequency sweep test and five additional measurements performed in a mini anechoic chamber. These procedures allow the tweeters to be classified by sensitivity and matched to within ±0.25 dB before integration into the loudspeaker system.

One of the earliest ATOHM® drivers, the LD130, was originally developed in 2000–2001. The new C150 DCR units draw inspiration from this landmark design, retaining its fundamental characteristics, including intended application, diameter, basket mounting, membrane type, and ferrite-based motor structure. Building on decades of accumulated expertise and utilizing modern development tools, the driver and all of its components have been completely reengineered to deliver performance that surpasses its predecessor in every respect.

Balancing stiffness, low mass, and effective damping, the new units employ a specialized “paper” cone constructed from oriented short fibers. A dedicated rear treatment complements this design by optimizing and controlling cone breakup at higher frequencies. The result is improved response linearity and a crossover tuning process that is both more precise and more efficient.

The NBR rubber surround integrates LDS™ (Low Diffraction Surrounding) technology, allowing for progressive breakup behavior in the midrange and contributing to a smoother, more linear frequency response. Its carefully optimized geometry maintains symmetrical stiffness during high-excursion operation while simultaneously reducing overall moving mass.

Drawing on extensive experience and advanced electromagnetic simulations (F.E.A.), the motor assembly incorporates an 84 mm ferrite magnet, optimized pole pieces, and a 25 mm voice coil. This geometry maximizes magnetic flux concentration within the gap, ensuring a high, stable, and symmetrical force factor (BL) across a wide excursion range. The result is bass reproduction that is both exceptionally powerful and remarkably clean, free from unwanted artifacts.

SPECIFICATIONS

Speaker Type: 2.5-way bass reflex center-channel speaker
Sensitivity: 88 dB (2.83 V / 1 m)
Nominal Power Handling (IEC 60268, 100 h): 130 W RMS
Short-Term Power Handling (IEC 60268, 1 s, 80 Hz–20 kHz): 320 W RMS
Maximum Short-Term SPL (IEC 60268, 1 s, 80 Hz–20 kHz, 40 V): 111 dB @ 1 m
Nominal Impedance: 6 Ω (minimum 3.5 Ω @ 38 Hz)
Frequency Response: 43 Hz – 25 kHz (−3 dB)
Crossover Frequency: 3.5 kHz
Midbass Drivers: 2 × C150 DCR 08
Tweeter: WSD20 DND 04F
Crossover Slope: First-order with impedance compensation
Cabinet Construction: 18 mm MDF
Finish: Black satin varnish
Dimensions (W × H × D): 490 × 180 × 300 mm (15.35 × 7.08 × 11.81 in)
Weight: 10 kg (22 lbs)

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ATOHM Sirocco Center Speaker