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Mains extensions updated

New standmount and two floorstanders coming soon

Hot on the heels of the impressive floorstanding M-6 loudspeaker review in HFC 436, Danish manufacturer Scansonic has announced another addition toits speaker lineup, but this timein the more diminutive guiseof a standmount. The new MK-5 is a compact two-way bookshelf model, boasting the same ultra-light sealed ribbon planar magnetic tweeter that appears in the aforementioned M Series. Formed from a kapton-aluminium sandwich that’s claimed to be just 20µm thick, and boasting a mass that’s described as being as much as 50 times lower than conventional textile, ceramic, beryllium or diamond domes, the tweeter’s membrane is reputed to result in a performance with significantly higher resolution and less material colouration. Partnering the tweeter is a new 114mm Kevlar-coned mid/bass driver (which incidentally is where the K part of the MK-5’s name comes from).

SDS first introduced the IsoPlatMat and IsoFeet in 2005, but now the business has reached a size where it no longer needs to be supported by Sound Damped Steel Ltd and so it has been re-branded and will now be known as Soundeck. The Soundeck turntable mat (pictured above) is now coated with vinyl so that it doesn¹t need a soft mat to protect the record. Meanwhile, its IsoFeet are now 25 percent thicker and available as rectangles or rounds in stainless or powder coated black finish. A machined damping puck made from SDS stainless steel laminate is also being produced.

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