The ULTIMATUM MF9 loudspeaker has been designed purely for making music. It has evolved by virtue of Neat's approach; allowing music to determine the technology, rather than the other way around. This loudspeaker is the culmination of twenty years of expertise from the Neat Acoustics design team, working here without financial or creative inhibition.

Technical description
The MF9 is a complex, yet simply-conceived design incorporating a multi-chamber, multi-driver enclosure constructed from Birch Plywood. It is, essentially, a 2.5 way design, using six of Neat's 168mm main drivers (two of which have been re-designed to meet the exacting requirements of the ULTIMATUM range), a Focal 'inverted' titanium-dome tweeter, plus two super-tweeters.

Several distinguishing features combine to make the ULTIMATUM a very special loudspeaker. There are seven discrete internal cavities, with five of the drive units facing forward in an extended D'Appolito array.

The top and bottom drive units handle low-bass. The 'inner' pair handling bass and midrange. The main tweeter is in the centre, and is augmented by the two upward-firing EMIT super-tweeters.

Uniquely, two separate compound (iso-baric) chambers are employed for the low-bass sections, giving superb pitch articulation and control.

Three years of development have been spent on solving the problem of deleterious vibrational effects and the driver-mounting baffles (front & top) are decoupled from the main structure via a polyethylene membrane. The total baffle is a 45mm thick 'sandwich' of Birch Plywood, Polyethylene and MDF. This provides a rigid non-resonant platform, which is ideal for optimal performance of the drive units.

The crossover is a minimalist 5 element type (plus damping & attenuating resistors) employing precisely toleranced, low loss air-cored inductors and Neat's newly-developed polypropylene film & foil capacitors. The speaker exploits predominantly first-order crossover slopes and mechanical roll-offs for a natural, uninhibited performance.

Specifications
Dimensions: 151x22x37cm (hwd)

Plinth footprint: 35x51cm (wd)

Enclosure type: Vertical in-line extended D'Appolito array, incorporating iso-baric reflex-tuned and infinite baffle internal cavities, plus upward firing super-tweeters

Sensitivity: 90db/1 watt

Recommended amplifier power: 25 - 500watts

Impedance: 8 ohms average. Minimum 4.7 ohms

Weight: 66kg each

Finishes
Neat Ultimatum standard finishes.

Natural Ash	Rose Ash	Black Ash	Walnut	Oak	Figured Birch

Neat Ultimatum premium (high gloss) finishes.

Velvet Cloud	Red Velvet Cloud	Piano Black

The representations above are for guidance only.
Exact matching cannot be guaranteed.
Specification may be subject to change without notice.