FinkTeam are Europe’s premier loudspeaker design consultancy manufacturing technical tour-de-force, world class products.
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Many famous brands have hired FinkTeam for their extremely well-equipped facilities, wealth of experience and technical expertise.
FinkTeam began work on designing a cost no object loudspeaker from the ground up as a demonstration of their capabilities. There was no intention that it would go on sale; However, when Marantz Europe’s brand ambassador Ken Ishiwata heard an early prototype he asked if he could have a properly finished version which he could use to demonstrate his electronic designs. This speaker was so well received that FinkTeam were forced to rethink, realising that there was unexpected demand for what they had created, and so began the family of FinkTeam Loudspeakers.
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BORG
FinkTeam’s Borg is two-way floor standing design featuring a 10.25 inch high-power mid/bass driver and an Air Motion Transformer (AMT) tweeter.
Borg is a significant design exercise as knitting a 10.25 inch mid/bass, albeit an extremely fine one, with a HF unit is never easy. To combine the two drivers to achieve a flat frequency response and, more importantly, a slow even mid/HF roll off in the power response is a significant feat of engineering. There is no off-axis hole in the middle effect.
KIM
FinkTeam did what they are good at – they made it their way again – a mixture of innovation and ‘more of the same’, from the larger BORG…
KIM had to be a speaker that they would use themselves, something fun.
A few basic design principles stayed the same. A reflex system with a paper coned woofer with a massive magnet, Two-way construction with AMT HF unit, again based on a Mundorf core. A cabinet with everything needed to avoid unwanted radiation from the box and a highly optimised crossover with high-quality parts.
An enclosure large enough to deliver realistic low frequencies and scale but that is small enough to be relatively discreet. It is short enough to sit below windows and work well close to walls.
WHY FINKTEAM?
FinkTeam may be a relatively new name, but the people behind it are almost legendary in the depth and reach of their experience in the audio business.
Knowing this, when we first actually heard the Borg at Munich in May 2019, we were very comfortable in taking on a brand with both great sonic attributes and a truly top-class company backing it up.
FinkTeam only have two current speakers under their name – KIM (a large-ish standmount) and the BORG which has now proven to be an eye- and ear-catching product for many UK audiophiles, and we look forward to seeing how many agree with us on the rare blend of abilities the Borg brings….
FinkTeam loudspeakers are no typical designs, and we feel they can punch beyond their weight, with the fine-tuning options giving a unique advantage in many real-world rooms and systems.
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