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The Skiff: redefining the micro loudspeaker
The Skiff, like
other of Role Audio loudspeakers, is designed to deliver large
scale loudspeaker performance in the smallest possible design.
The skiff represents the holy grail in loudspeaker design. It
uses a single full range driver which means it is a true point
source, it is perfectly time coherent, minimum phase, and has
no phase or driver integration problems. The Skiff is simply
one of the most accurate loudspeaker you can find at any price.
The Skiff is designed to play
solo or with a subwoofer. Although it measures only 6 inches
high by 4 inches wide by 5 inches deep, the Skiff can fill most
rooms with large scale, accurate, full range, non-fatiguing music
with surprising bass response. While its bass roll-off pattern
allows seamless integration with large subwoofers.
It is small and beautiful enough
to place almost anywhere. And it is fully magnetically shielded
so it may be placed near to CRTs. It may be used as a small center
channel speaker, or the best sounding small surround speakers.
You can play loudly of softly. Either way, it will out-class
the competition.
Its accuracy
and imaging allow it to thoroughly unravel a recording.
The Skiff is
available in beautiful red birch plywood, satin black, or warm
white lacquer cabinets, all with rounded edges, topped-off with
Superior's five-way binding posts and a retainer for Omnimount
10.0 series brackets.
Special Features:
True point source
Magnetically shielded
Perfect time coherence
Superior five-way terminals
True minimum phase
Cast frame full-range transducer
Omnimount 10.0 Series bracket retainer
"When compared
to the ... Aperion 422 speakers, the Skiffs deliver slightly
better low-level resolution and less overall homogenization.
... Surprisingly, although the 422's have a separate dome
tweeter, they have no additional top end air or treble attenuation
when compared to the Skiffs."
(Steve
Stone, enjoythemusic.com, 5/06)
"The [Gallo] Adivas image
just as well as the Role Skiffs."
(Steve Stone, enjoythemusic.com, 5/06)
see
available finishes
Note: Grills are not
removable
read
full Bound for Sound review of Skiff
read
full enjoythemusic.com review of Skiff |
“...I can't think of many speakers anywhere near its price
or size that can rival (much less best) it in certain areas of
reproduction. The upper midrange smoothness and coherence in
particular is something to behold... it's surprisingly neutral
and capable with a variety of music...”
Marc
Yun issue #154, Bound for Sound
" The more time
I spend with the Skiffs, the less inclined I am to try bigger
speakers. The Skiffs make "small is beautiful" into
more than a cliché."
(Steve
Stone, enjoythemusic.com, 5/06)
"It is crisply delineated yet silky smooth, with excellent
articulation and resolution.
As good as
the Windjammer was with woodwind instruments like oboe, flute,
or clarinet, the Skiff may just edge it out in sheer beauty of
woodwind sound. I'm not sure it's necessarily
a more accurate transducer than my reference Merlin TSM ..."
Marc
Yun issue #154, Bound for Sound
"The more time
I spend with the Skiffs, the less inclined I am to try bigger
speakers."
(Steve
Stone, enjoythemusic.com, 5/06)
"Tones
are pure and pristine, with just a bit of emphasis
on the fundamental over the delicate harmonics above."
Marc
Yun issue #154, Bound for Sound
"...it's a just a little box, but that's
much of its appeal - stealth high-end audio at its finest. Leave
audio jewelry to the poseurs wearing blinged-out Rolexes."
(Steve
Stone, enjoythemusic.com, 5/06)
"I could
see five of these little guys plus a good subwoofer making a quality compact multi-channel system that
would positively embarrass those satellite/subwoofer
"home theater" systems from the mass-fi manufacturers."
Marc
Yun issue #154, Bound for Sound
"Close your eyes,
spin around on your computer chair three times, and I dare you
to accurately point to where the drivers are located. The combination
of no crossover, point source drivers, and a well-damped acoustic
suspension cabinet creates a nearly ideal close-field monitor.
If seamless imaging floats your boat, it will bobbing happily
along in time with the music heard through these little beasties."
(Steve
Stone, enjoythemusic.com, 5/06)
"...the Skiffs
produce a remarkably linear frequency response over their
entire range."
(Steve
Stone, enjoythemusic.com, 5/06)
"The small
size, magnetic shielding, easy interface, easy
interfacing requirements (amp/cable) and flexibility of placement make it a dream for the audiophile with "lifestyle"-type
applications."
Marc
Yun issue #154, Bound for Sound
Skiff shown in certified "green" birch plywood finish |