Wharfedale Super Denton
Wharfedale Super Denton 3-way Bookshelf Speaker - Coming Soon To Spinners - pricing to be confirmed early March
Wharfedale’s new SUPER DENTON is part of Wharfedale’s Heritage series, based on classic designs from Wharfedale’s past but brought right up to date with modern drive unit, cabinet and crossover technology.
The result of this project is the all-new Wharfedale SUPER DENTON!
Taking inspiration from the Denton 3 – a loudspeaker that, in 1971, was acclaimed for surprising comparisons to the more regular large-format speakers of the time – DENTON has now evolved to the ‘SUPER’ status – a term originally applied to improved ‘Super’ and ‘Super Power’ Wharfedale models of the 1970s. The new SUPER DENTON follows suit in creating another modern classic with all the romance of heritage design matched by the latest in loudspeaker engineering.
DENTON, in all current iterations, holds its place as a standmount/bookshelf speaker that is easy to fall in love with — thanks in no small part to the proportions of its quality veneered cabinet. The new SUPER DENTON takes the ‘Super’ aspiration to a new level and brings back the classic 3-way design of the Denton 3, but rather than follow the LINTON model with another large-format cabinet design, the SUPER DENTON remarkably keeps to the compact standmount/bookshelf format and is a mere 20mm taller than the DENTON 85th model!
The industrial design and cabinet engineering required incredible effort to support such a complex array in a small volume, small footprint cabinet. The SUPER DENTON cabinet features critically placed bracing and internal acoustic damping using layers of long-hair fibre and the midrange and treble units have their own rear enclosures. As with all models in the Heritage series, the new SUPER DENTON cabinet is wrapped with hand-matched wood veneers for a furniture-grade finish befitting any living environment – classic or modern.
The SUPER DENTON is formulated from three advanced drive units – a 6.5 inch woven Kevlar cone bass unit, a 2 inch dome midrange unit, and a 1 inch soft-dome treble unit. The bass unit and cabinet are tuned to achieve a remarkable bass extension down to 40Hz, providing realistic performance from instruments and vocals in the lower midrange. The midrange unit provides the ideal transition from the fundamental tones carried by the bass unit to the harmonic overtones higher in frequency, while the wide dispersion of the dome diaphragm is responsible for the clarity and finesse that brings the musical performance alive into your living room. The new 1 inch soft dome treble unit inherits the ceramic magnet motor system and rear chamber used in the Dovedale Heritage, to better match the detailed performance of its companion drivers.
The drivers are advanced on any previous model with the DENTON name. The premium, cast chassis 6.5” (165mm) bass unit is tuned to the cabinet for bass extension down to 40Hz – astonishing for a loudspeaker of this size – with the woven Kevlar diaphragm providing realistic performance from instruments and vocals in the lower midrange.
The midrange unit is based around a 2” (50mm) dome design – inspired by Wharfedale’s award-winning EVO4 project. This driver provides the ideal transition from the fundamental tones carried by the bass unit to the harmonic overtones higher in frequency. The wide dispersion of this dome diaphragm is responsible for the clarity and finesse that brings the musical performance alive.
Sonic detail and air at high frequencies comes via a new 1” (25mm) soft dome treble unit that inherits design traits from the revered Wharfedale DOVEDALE model, including the ceramic motor system and rear chamber. This chamber helps reduce the resonant frequency to below that of the crossover region for a more natural and seamless transition between the drive units.