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A Cleaner Sound
Wharfedale has

been at the fore-front of enclosure

design for many years and has now

developed a radical new constructional method.

Conventional cabinets fix the front and rear panels rigidly

into the cabinet box and so the woofer cone vibrations are

transmitted through the whole cabinet. Each cabinet wall then vibrates adding colouration and dissipating sound energy.

By contrast the Diamond cabinet’s front and rear panels are made from Wharfedale’s unique acoustically dead

“AudioStealth” moulded rock polymer. They are then bolted together to form a structure that moves as a single panel and

which is isolated from the main cabinet body by compliant gaskets. The result? Lower cabinet vibrations mean

lower levels of colouration and a cleaner sound. Less energy loss means a tighter, louder bass.

Port Tubes
Ordinary

port tubes are flared at the end

you see but plain at the other end.

The result is that the air can get into

the cabinet faster than it can get out

resulting in a pressure build up which

displaces the woofer cone so that it hits

its “end stops” sooner.

The Diamonds use Wharfedale’s

symmetrical ports through which air

flows equally well in either direction. The

result is the Diamond loudspeaker can

actually play louder and with less

distortion!

Specifications
System 2-Way Rear Ported Bookshelf 2-Way Rear Ported Bookshelf 2-Way Rear Ported
Power Handling 100 watt 100 watt 100 watt
Sensitivity (for 2.83v at 1m) 89dB 89dB 88dB
Nominal Impedance 8 ohms 8 ohms 8 ohms
Overall Dimensions 295 x 190 x 188 295 x 190 x 238 800 x 190 x 238

Wharfedale have a policy of continuous product development & reserve the right to change specifications without notice.

Wharfedale International Limited, IAG House, Sovereign Court, Ermine Business

Park, Huntingdon, Cambs, PE18 6WA England
Tel: +44 (0)1480 431737 +44(0)1480 447700 Fax: +44 (0)1480 431767 BRITAIN'S MOST FAMOUS LOUDSPEAKERS
www.wharfedale.co.uk
Wharfedale Diamond is a registered trade mark of Wharfedale International Ltd. 912-109
 The launch of the original Wharfedale Diamond in 1982 revolutionised the
The Diamond 7.1 is a compact
design of small loudspeakers.
2-way loudspeaker which continues
The Diamond quickly moved into the
the Diamond traditions of affordability;

outstanding sound quality; and best selling charts where it has The 7.3 floor-standing model offers a more extended bass and a number of

audiophile improvements including connections for bi-wiring; the facility for sand-filling the lower part of the
advanced technical performance.
remained year in; year out.
cabinet; and the option of an elegant plinth with removable floor spikes. Like all the Diamond series the 7.3 uses

Now 14 years and several millions audiophile grade film capacitors in the crossover rather than the regular bi-polar types.

later the Diamond has reached its

seventh generation but this time The
with a difference; the Diamond is now a Science
series of compact high-performance hi-fi
of
Materials
loudspeakers. “Audio
Wharfedale
Stealth”
was probably the first
Mouldings
loudspeaker company to realise that

the cabinet design had a major

effect upon the sound quality of a

loudspeaker. Just as the Stradivarius

violin produces its initial sound energy

from the strings but the overall tone and

timbre from the body, so it is with the

Unlike the majority of speaker Performance Drive Units
loudspeaker. The sound energy is
manufacturers Wharfedale still design their own unique
produced by the drive unit diaphragms
drive units so continuing an unbroken tradition of 65 years.
but the acoustic resonances of the
During that time Wharfedale were pioneers in almost every aspect of drive-
The Diamond 7.2 takes the cabinet adds to the tonal balance.
unit technology including fabric surrounds; rubber surrounds; moulded cones;
performance of the Diamond series to For many years Wharfedale has been
polypropylene cones; laminated cones; ceramic magnets; plastic dome,
new unrivalled heights. Listeners have working towards finding an acoustically
metal dome, and ceramic dome tweeters; the list goes on and on.
found that the 7.2 goes louder; goes “dead” material; a material that would
For the Diamond 7.1 Wharfedale has designed a long-throw woofer with a new version
deeper; and reproduces more cleanly effectively absorb many of the
of the laminated cone that Wharfedale first popularised in the 1980s.
than any of our competitor’s unwanted sound vibrations. This
The woofer used in the Diamond 7.2 and 7.3 has a large magnet assembly and a
comparable products. material is used for our “Audio Stealth”
cone moulded from the latest formulation of an exclusive mineral loaded homo-
mouldings of the front and rear panels.
polymer plastic which we first patented in 1982. Not only is this cone rigid but
This dense material is a unique blend of
the finely ground mineral embedded in the cone damps out any unwanted
ground rock and co-polymer, and adds
resonances. The Results? Strong accurate bass with a transparent
few, if any, significant colourations to
mid-band free of unnatural colourations.
the final sound.