MEET THE OVERTURE O305F
- High-flow bass reflex port with highly rounded flange
- ER Cone midrange and woofer inspired by our most popular Figaro Series speakers
- Silk dome tweeter with famous mini horn
- Phase linear crossover with extra thick copper PCB
- High-quality coreless copper coils
- Completely redesigned solid binding posts and a set of spikes
SECTIONAL- BOX -IN- BOX CABINET
MINI-HORN
THE MUSIC
Gary Burton And Chick Corea: Crystal Silence is one of the label’s most important classic albums for ECM Records. Manfred Eicher has managed to more than skillfully capture the magic of the majestic interplay between Corea and Burton.
“Crystal Silence” can sound too congested too quickly, with a sparse instrument formation, but AudioSolutions Overture O305F protected the sound not garishly colored, but with a much needed and properly balanced aural shimmer to the complex tapestry of sound.
With Dean Martin – Dream with Dean the AudioSolutions Overture O305F speakers reproduced Dean’s rusty but silky voice without glare. Something I didn’t expect and shouldn’t normally occur in this price range. Dean’s aura was vividly palpable and with unexpected showily quality.
In a properly balanced system, Dean should enchant you and be subjectified at once. AudioSolutions Overture O305F allowed Dean Martin to interpret with an instantly identifiable, high-quality reproduction.
This was confirmed in a lasting way with Julie London’s “Cry Me A River” from the album Julie Is Her Name. London’s voice was immediately present with familiar qualities that are. Overture O305F presented “Cry Me A River” in a newly accomplished way, without being disenchanting, and with an enchanting wanderlust.
It was interesting to observe how well the AudioSolutions Overture O305F speakers could handle dynamics and how well they disappeared into space. This was particularly evident with St. John’s Night on Bald Mountain, “A Night on the Bare Mountain” (original version) Eiji Oue, Modeste Moussorgsky – Mephisto & Co.
Overture O305F threw an impressive stereo field projection that not only held the dynamic punch with outstanding authority. AudioSolutions speakers were able to paint “A Night on the Bare Mountain” with a dramatic atmosphere and technicolor, classical quality. Too often Moussorgsky’s masterpiece can sound lifeless, lacking inner energetic radiance. Yet… It was quite a feat to observe AudioSolutions Overture O305F project a vivid landscape pictorially, rather than a dull and analytical soundscape in which thousands of tiny details are lost.
When speakers are not properly balanced, Leonard Cohen – Nevermind can seem like an unsung affair. On the contrary, the AudioSolutions Overture O305F speakers instantly sparked a deeply emotional connection to Cohen’s composition.
The AudioSolutions Overture O305F speakers can in no way be described as musically inconsistent. On the contrary. With their radial core, they resonate through albums and tracks with far greater authority and involvement than expected, with far greater intimacy and emotional release than should be the case, and with a trailblazing dazzling variety. That alone catapults the O305F speakers far beyond mediocrity and the ordinary.
CONCLUSION
The AudioSolutions Overture O305F features a beautiful and clever design. A review sample came with a black faceplate, while the rest of the speakers’s panels are finished in an instantly recognizable AudioSolutions’ scratch-resistant grey graphite color. I appreciate this combination as it has an understated elegance and the speakers maintain their distinct, sculptural aesthetic with surprising elegance.
They project the realistic scale and feel of space with just the right size of instruments and performers. This rarely happens, regardless of the price of the speaker.
With the AudioSolutions Overture O305F speakers, the sound was able to spread up to my 3.2m high perforated ceiling and escape from the 5.4m high sidewalls.
There is the seamlessness where you don’t hear the familiar effect of drivers kicking in, but the music always comes out as one harmonious whole.
With AudioSolutions Overture O305F the music comes to you at the same time. Yes, something we all take for granted, but it just isn’t always so. Again, regardless of the price.
It is very impressive how Gaidelis has managed to remove all the limitations that could be attached with the Overture line in connection with the price and create such a meaningful and great sounding whole.
AudioSolutions Overture O305F speakers come with a certain cinematic, hummable quality that I have never experienced in floor standing speakers in this price range. Despite their given proportions, the O305F allows for wonderfully differentiated dynamics and a magical intersection of the golden triangle of timbre, tone, and color.
I was more than pleasantly surprised by how solid and coherent the AudioSolutions Overture O305F speakers were able to reproduce the music. And there is that special continuity in music reproduction that invites perpetual music enjoyment and rediscovery of the music collection, again and again. Another stand out feature, that wasn’t expected.
To label AudioSolutions speakers anything even close to entry-level would be a great disservice to Gediminas Gaidelis and a great understatement of the surprisingly refreshingly potent inner core of the Overture O305F. It shows how cleverly everything has been combined into a seamless whole.
AudioSolutions Overture O305F speakers deliver the elemental and fundamental qualities with refined attention, mindfulness, and a higher level of enjoyment that magnifies the listening pleasure.
What these Gediminas Gaidelis’ proud creations can do for their given price is far beyond the ordinary and deserves a special highlight. It is only fair to acknowledge Gediminas Gaidelis’ achievement with AudioSolutions Overture O305F speakers with something unique. I award the Overture O305F a combined 2021 Best Buy and Highly Recommended Product awards.
While reviewing the Overture O305F speakers, I had a light bulb moment. They made me rethink some core values and attributes of the big-size speakers. Yes, some qualities are hard or impossible to achieve with smaller speakers, but when the overall primary qualities are properly addressed, those attributes become so strong that a few ob Goliath qualities don’t feel imperative and a genuine David attributes in the form of the Overture O305F allows the music to unfold properly. This will certainly set up my future explorations of similarly sized speakers.
Not everyone wants to talk openly about overloading the listening room. During my travels and visits to numerous trade shows, events, and showrooms, as well as private listening rooms, it is a fact that most high-end audio listening environments are severely overloaded with speakers that are far too large.
Large speakers need an appropriate, usually larger, setting to fully develop and not acoustically burden the room and accentuate room modes. Even some of my colleagues in the media industry are not sensitive to this issue. But that is another topic, perhaps worthy of a separate and prolonged article.
We all prioritize our high-end audio setups according to our priorities. That said. A thoroughly treated acoustic space with properly sized speakers is something that certainly needs to be said out loud and addressed more often, as it is the key to getting the most out of speakers and associated high-end audio paraphernalia. ⧉
Matej Isak
PRICE
– 4100 EUR for a pair
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Dimensions (HxWxD) : 1110mm x 250mm (421mm with feet) x 390mm; 43.7 x 9.9 (16.6) x 15.4 in
- Weight : 39 kg/88 lbs each
- Shipping weight : 43 kg/106 lbs each
- Sensitivity : 91 dB @ 2.83V 1m
- Nominal power handling : 160 W rms
- Maximum unclipped power handling : 320 W;
- Impedance : nominal 4,0 ohms
- Crossover frequency : 500 Hz; 3000 Hz
- Frequency response (in-room environment) : 33-26000 Hz
- Drivers : 2,5 cm silk dome tweeter, 15.2 cm ER paper cone mid, two 18.3 cm ER paper cone bass drivers