Kudos Audio Titan 505 speakers

Product Description

This Titan 505 standmount speaker from Kudos represents outstanding performance that belies its size. Rather than consider this as a bookshelf speaker that has a great bottom end, you could say it's got performance close to the next level up (Kudos 606 floorstander), trading off some lower frequency reach and impact, for the added coherency that a smaller baffle speaker can offer. 

Hifi Plus glowing review here: https://www.whathifi.com/reviews/kudos-titan-505

Kudos Audio is one of the fastest growing high-performance loudspeaker brands in the UK. Deliberately daring to move beyond the traditional rulebook, Kudos takes an uncommon approach to loudspeaker design. The Kudos team combines its own considerable know-how in audio design and live sound engineering with the skills of several leading European suppliers to create unique, bespoke components and solutions. Every single Kudos loudspeaker is then hand-built, in England. A Kudos loudspeaker is therefore a genuine original. And your emotional experience? One of a kind.

ISOBARIC WITH FIXED BOUNDARY LOADING

Bass is key to how we hear music, so our Titan series goes above and beyond in ensuring superior sound at the all-important lower end. The Titan 505’s isobaric and fixed boundary bass reflex loading is cleverly engineered to deliver a more agile, nuanced, textured and detailed bass reproduction.

CUSTOM-MADE DRIVERS

The Titan series features drive units crafted exclusively for Kudos by world-leading specialists SEAS. All four Titans share the same superb K3 tweeter, a version of a legendary SEAS unit specially re-engineered to tailor its capabilities for the Titans. A two-way design, the 505’s twin mid/bass drivers are brand new and unique to this loudspeaker. All drivers are precisely matched and aligned to work together seamlessly, delivering an effortless ‘just right’ sound. When you hear it, you’ll know it.

LOW-ORDER CROSSOVERS AND MINIMAL DESIGN FOR PURER SOUND

The purer the signal, the truer the sound. A Kudos loudspeaker preserves a clean and clear audio signal by favouring a minimal design with our trademark, low-order crossover. The Titan series’ superior quality components are tailored specifically for Kudos to stringent tolerances. They include Mundorf’s MResist Supreme resistors and air-core inductors, and ClarityCap’s unique CopperConnect technology capacitors.

INTERIOR DESIGN

The best designs are a marriage of form and function. The Titans’ modernist design blends effortlessly into the contemporary home. Concealed within, however, is highly a complex system of differential panel resonance control. While keeping a rigorously tight grip on any and all unwanted vibrations, this smart system gives full and free rein to the natural dynamics of your music.

ACTIVE CONFIGURATION (UPGRADEABLE)

The Titan series is configured to allow simple by-passing of the internal crossover for active operation with leading electronics including Linn Exakt, Devialet Expert, Naim SNAXO and Exposure VXN. Upgrading to active operation enables a variety of performance and personalisation enhancing capabilities.

At this level, it comes as no surprise that Kudos uses some high-end audiophile components for their crossover network. Mundorf supplies the air-core inductors and resistor, while a high voltage ClarityCap film type capacitor is used in the high-frequency filter.

Specifications:

Type: 2-way, Isobaric bass reflex 

Package: Includes one pair of speakers plus stands (bolts to the speakers so won't tip/separate)

Recommended amplifier power: 25-250W

Sensitivity: 87dB 

Impedance: 6ohm 

Frequency response: 40Hz – 30kHz AIRR (average in-room response) 

Tweeter: SEAS (Kudos Crescendo K3 spec) 29mm fabric dome

Midbass: 2 x SEAS-Kudos 180mm unit with coated reed paper cone, 39mm voice coil with copper shorting ring and aluminium phase plug 

Finishes:

• Walnut
• Liquid Amber
• Natural Oak
• Black Oak
• White Gloss
• Black Gloss