Owner`s manual

The Talisman

Thank you for your order and congratulations on becoming the owner of an Audio Concepts, Inc. (ACI)

speaker system. The Talisman is an audiophile quality system that will provide you with many years of

listening pleasure. Be sure and take a moment to register your warranty either by mail or on-line at

www.audioc.com.

ACI is all that you have grown to expect and demand. We are music lovers first. We only design and

build speakers that we would desire to own ourselves. These principles comprise our foundation, and they

always will. Now, ACI is achieving at a level beyond what we have aspired to before. The potential of Home

Theater has inspired us to move further beyond convention and to rise above the status quo. The new

Talisman is the ultimate example of this perspective. It is at once powerful yet flexible, elegant yet bold. Its

internal woofer amplifier employs a fully discrete output stage and generates high current. The result is a

speaker equally adept at recreating the visceral dynamics of home theater and the essential musical purity

usually attained only by speaker that lack its ease of range. A parametric EQ allows unparalleled ability to

adjust not only the speaker's balance, but to eliminate prominent room resonance as well.

As in all ACI products, the finest drivers are used with extensively engineered and tested precision

crossover networks. The cabinets are built to be extremely inert with extensive internal bracing. The midrange

chamber is specially shaped and damped. All design and quality aspects combine to yield absolute state-of-

the-art sonics. The use of the finest lacquers and hardwoods results in a cabinet of exceptional beauty and

durability.

Specifications

Frequency response: 30-20kHz ±3db

Nominal impedance: 8 ohms

Sensitivity: 87db 1 watt/1 meter

Bass-loading: Equalized, low Q, sealed alignment

Recommended RMS Power: 20-100 watts

Woofer Amplifier: 180 Watt RMS with AWS (Adaptive Woofer System)

Tweeter: 1” silk dome, ferro-fluid cooled, shielded

Mid: 5 ¼” cast-frame, rubber surround, double magnet, long-throw, shielded

Mid-Bass: 6 ½” cast-frame, rubber surround, long throw, shielded

Woofer: 10" extreme excursion, rubber surround

Dimensions: 48 1/8” tall, 9 1/4” wide and 16 1/8” deep

Weight: 115lbs

Recommended accessories: DH Labs Speaker Cables

Design philosophy for the Talisman

Modern speaker design is a combination of science, art and sweat. A successful design such as the

Talisman requires thousands of hours utilizing computer modeling, several generations of prototypes, precision

testing, critical listening and many "fine tunings".

Our design goals for the Talisman were to produce a speaker that would set standards both for two-

channel and multi-channel use. The Talisman had to be the ultimate tower for full-range response. The

Talisman had to be an attractively proportioned and constructed speaker with smooth, uncolored, wide-range

response, three-dimensional stereo imaging, good sensitivity, high power handling and dynamics, see through