Gallo hi-fi system - A'Diva, Due and Micro speakers with MPS 150 powered subwoofer

Gallo Story

Where our spherical technology came from...

This section provides an overview of where our spherical technology came from. It details our heritage as a manufacturer of ultra high end, cost no object loudspeakers. When you're auditioning loudspeakers, what qualities are most important: Ethereal trebles? Effortless dynamics? Holographic imaging? Powerful bass? Until recently, music lovers had to choose between the purity and transparency of planers or electrostatics and the accuracy and output of dynamic systems.

Then, in 1994, Anthony Gallo Acoustics changed the way we listen. Here was a speaker with a 12" diameter that weighed less than ten pounds, yet combined electrostatic purity with big system volume capability. And while reviewers have unanimously praised the Nucleus series as a breakthrough in speaker design, we're even more pleased with the reaction of the toughest critics of all - high end consumers.

Since 1994, we've heard our speakers described as "breathtaking", "futuristic", and "strange." But whether you think our cosmetics are stunning or bizarre isn't really important to us. Everything we do is judged according to a single, simple goal - achieving the highest fidelity possible. It would have been much easier for us to design and build a traditional box-type enclosure with conventional drivers. But why would we? A number of fine companies already offer these products. We know how to build such speakers, and how to make them look beautiful, but they could never have delivered the type of performance we demanded. In our attempts to advance the state of the loudspeaker art, a fresh approach was needed.

Despite their numerous shortcomings - low efficiency, large size, compromised bass and volume output - planar loudspeakers were long prized by audiophiles for their "boxless" sound. Therefore, our first challenge was to eliminate the two major causes of box coloration's, namely, enclosure resonance and baffle diffraction.

Before we could define the future of loudspeaker design, we had to reach into the past. Back in the 1940's, Olsen realised that a spherical enclosure provided, by far, the most linear frequency response, the lowest diffraction and absolute elimination of resonance-generating internal standing waves. In order to deliver boxless sound from a dynamic driver, we eliminated the box.

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