It's been 50 years since young Canadian Paul Barton formed PSB Speakers and began selling loudspeaker kits to this fellow students. To celebrate half a century of audio excellence, PSB is launching the Passif 50, based one the look and design of the original PSB Passif II speaker from 1974.
Barton decided that to improve his already popular speaker kits, he should delve into the science of what makes a great speaker. The young Barton approached Professor Floyd Toole at Canada’s National Research Council and was taken under the wing of some of Canada’s brightest and best physicists and engineers. He also gained access to the NRC’s anechoic chamber where he was able to test out his new speaker designs and measure their performance using precision instruments.
The Passif II speakers were the first in the PSB range to feature the brand’s signature “True to Nature” sound. Now the new Passif 50 represents that PSB legacy with the same tonal accuracy, spatial realism and freedom from distortion that Barton first created 50 years ago. The design of the Passif 50 may mirror its forebear physically but it incorporates some of the same flagship-level components of the latest PSB speakers and the culmination of half a century of acoustic research. The result is a loudspeaker with a classic 1970’s look but with the kind of audio performance that listeners in 1974 could only have dreamed of.
I for one can’t wait to hear what the Passif 50 speakers sound like as it’s not often you get to hear a product that’s been perfected over 50 years by the original designer; that’s unique in my book. I asked Barton how much the original Passif II sold for at the time of their launch. He reckoned the figure was around $400. I typed that amount into an inflation calculator and the answer came back as $2,371, which is within a whisker of the price of the new PSB Passif 50 are selling for today.
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