Experience the Multiple-Award-Winning Usher Audio Be-718
Stand-Mounted Monitors at CES’08!
Venetian Tower 29-323 • Bassano 2701 And 2710

Dallas, TX, December 26th, 2007 • Usher Audio Technology, manufacturers of high-value, high-performance speaker systems and electronics, wins accolades and awards for the Be-718 Monitor speakers featured at this year’s CES, hailed as the new bar-raising price/performance king of the class.

Bar-Raising Performance? Price/Performance Kings? Really?

Winner 2008 CES Design and Engineering Innovations Awards

“The Usher Be-718 is simply a great loudspeaker that delivers a level of performance far above what its size and price would suggest.”
-- Robert Harley, The Absolute Sound
Winner 2007 Absolute Sound Product of the Year Awards

“The midrange and highs are ultra-clean ... I've never heard a speaker this small go so deep. I'd swear the Be-718s were moderately sized floorstanders.”
-- Doug Schneider, Soundstage.com
Winner SoundStage.com Reviewers’ Choice Award
Winner SoundStage.com 2007 Best Product Debut Award

"Usher's new Be-718 bookshelf monitors are spectacular, and I am sold on beryllium tweeters! Even though $2,795/pair is no chump change, you could spend a lot more and get a lot less." – John E. Johnson, Jr., Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity    Winner Secrets Best of 2007 Award – Bookshelf Speakers

“If I were in the market for a stand mount these would be my first choice because, in this price class, I think a speaker that hits all its marks is difficult enough to find but one that is as engaging to listen to as the Usher Be-718 comes along only once in a blue moon.”
-- John Potis, 6moons.com
Winner 6moons.com Blue Moon Award
Winner Audiolics.com Product of the Year Award

Audition the beryllium-domed Be-718s at CES and find out why everyone’s talking about their Amazing Sound and Surprising Value!

MSRP: $2,795 without stands • Available in Piano Black with Pioneer Birch side panels • Available Soon: More colors and matching stands

The Be-718s (dubbed the Tiny Dancer--the smallest member of Usher’s highly acclaimed Dancer Series) offer lustrously finished cabinets perfectly at home in the most refined settings, and function just as well as the centerpiece of a first or second audio or multichannel home theater system. Home Theater magazine as a set of them now!

The Be-718 features Usher’s superbly extended Beryllium Oxide tweeter, matched with newly-designed woofers that keep up with the tweeter’s speed, clarity and extension. The Be-718s are the first product developed with our Global Design philosophy. The high technology drivers, crossovers, and perfectly timed-aligned cabinets are designed and built by Mr. Tsai Lien Shui at Usher Taiwan, with finishing cosmetics supplied by a firm in the United Kingdom. Dr. Joseph D’Appolito, Usher’s long-serving technical consultant, provides crossover tuning here in the ’States. Next, Texas-based Danny Richie, chief designer at consulting firm GR Research, hotrods the standard Be-718 for the U.S. market. Danny reengineers the entire crossover, selects premium U.S. crossover parts, adjusts the speaker’s baffle step compensation and improves vertical off-axis dispersion. Finally, all internal wiring is replaced with premium wire from JPS Labs.

Be-718 Features:
• Be Beryllium Tweeter
• JPS Labs Alumiloy internal wiring
• Front ports for easy placement
• Dancer-style best quality speaker terminals
• Cosmetics redesigned by Kam Young in the UK
• Retuned crossovers featuring all new/upgraded parts:
o Erse high-purity oxygen-free copper air-core inductors
o Mills resistors
o Sonicaps
o Erse Poly Caps
o Gen 2 Sonicaps

Specs
System Type: 2-Way
Tweeter: 1.25-inch Be Beryllium (9980-20BEA)
Midbass: 7-inch Paper Cone (8948A)
Sensitivity: 87 dB @ 1 watt / 1m
Nominal impedance: 8 ohms
Frequency response: (-3 dB) 42 Hz ~ 35 kHz
Power handling: 200 watts
Crossover: 2.06 kHz
Weight: 37.9 lbs each
Dimensions: (w x d x h) 10.2" x 16.9" x 15.2"
Shipping box: (w x d x h) 24" x 19.1" x 18.9"
Shipping weight: 82 lbs

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