Opera Divina

The Callas Divina represents the new top of the range.
The sound of the Divina is unmistakably large scale and realistic, with excellent bass extension and drive but with the sweetness and detail that has come to be expected of the company. This design takes Opera to the next level and is equally a piece of furniture as it is a music maker. Finish is available in a range of real wood veneers and a real leather front baffle is available in a choice of colours.

Every single technical aspect of the design was subjected to intense musical listening tests at Opera.

The new loudspeakers of the Callas Series use techniques and components which reflect the state-of-the-art in electroacoustic design, including controlled-diffraction cabinets, drive units and crossovers. Every type of distorsion has been analysed, quantified and reduced. The sonic result is tonally correct, convincing, involving and most of all, enjoyable to listen to. The Callas Series loudspeakers are elegant and beautifully finished, and will discreetly enhance any room.

System

The Divina model is a floor-standing loudspeakers system with a linear array of small diameter woofer for the mid-low frequencies and a state-of-the-art one inch fabric tweeter for the high range. An extra tweeter, placed on the rear side of the cabinet, fills up the overall power response.
Diva and Divina share the same project philosophy: to recreate well defined, focused and stable acoustic stage image as the best small two way system can do.

Far from theory results are clearly audible: the new Diva and Divina loudspeakers system perform as a small two way-system but with the power, dynamic and low freq. extension that only bigger diameter woofer can perform.

The cabinet

The cabinet is made in a mix of MDF and plywood, with teardrop-section curved sides, veneered and finely lacquered in the best Italian tradition. The front baffle is finished in leather. This, along with the benefit to appearance also serves to reduce edge diffraction.
Internally there are a number of interlocked braces which serve to increase the rigidity across the cabinet.
Thanks to the chosen geometry, together with other detail design features the Divina model obtains a substantial increase in low frequency radiation from the reflex port which extends the bass response to the very lowest frequencies.

The duct is placed in the rear side of the cabinet near the floor where low frequency radiation impedance is larger and duct noise, if any, less audible.

A good quantity of lining material is carefully placed inside the cabinet.

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Reviews

"Like other great Italion loudspeakers the Opera Divina was open, airy and detailed, but never sounded sterile or harmonically thin. There was a sweetness to the sound, especially noticable on female voices. Maria Calla's voice never sounded betteri" - Stereophile, Sam Tellig

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Stereophile
Test Audio Review january 2005

System Audio SA 1550 There are people who use sound as a source of inspiration and spiritual enlightenment. People who are enraptured by the rhapsody of a symphony orchestra. People who bless the blues from Chicago. People who crave the way guitar greats can make a Stratocaster talk, cry or sing. They feel at home in the subtle, sublime and swinging art of jazz. They can’t resist the blistering tempest of a full-blooded rock orchestra. Or the rarefied tones of baroque. They know intimately every song sung of their favourite vocalist – and treasure every nuance of every note. SA creates loudspeakers for these sorts of people.
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ProAc Tablette Reference Eight SignaturePossibly the best small speaker in the world, we know of no other speaker this small with genuine audiophile quality. No expense has been spared sourcing expensive drive units for this design and boy does it show!

To sum up: Clean and detailed sound, especially beguiling in the midrange; convincing soundstage, with rock-steady image; plays loud without losing sonic balance; superbly made

ATC SCM 50 ASL I was instantly drawn into musical events. Music was occurring in my room. My experience was of a live event, even if the recording was made in a studio. For me, almost any live musical event has an excitement, whether I like the music or not. When the music is performed with particular feeling, it not only captures your attention, but it captures your heart and plays the strings of your emotions. - Positive Feedback extract

Zingali Home Monitor 212-IIHave a listen to a good emotional female singer like Eva Cassidy. If your jaw dosn't drop then I will be checking for a pulse. grown men have been known to fight back tears before these speakers.

"Within seconds, I sank into a state of bliss. It may have been the music, the volume (just shy of "live"), or the heat in the room (from 150 glowing tubes!), but whatever it was, I remained transfixed for the next 45 minutes"
- Soundstage The 2002 Jimmy Awards

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I could say the Poseidon's are awesome and amazing, but more than that they are truly majestic and magical. So often the quality of a product is overstated by reviewers in order to make a magazine review seem more interesting. It would be most difficult to overstate the sonic abilities of the Poseidon.

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