YG Acoustics Sonja 2.2i
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YG Acoustics Sonja 2.2 loudspeakers
Sonja™ 2.2 from YG Acoustics™’ represents everything that they know about speaker-design.
Our Aims
At YG we all love music and we all listen to music as often as we can. It’s great if that musical experience can be a live performance: nothing beats the thrill of hearing music created in front of you, and sharing that with the others in the audience.
However, like most people, recorded music makes up the majority of our listening. The audio system is not a laboratory tool. Its role is to recreate magic for human ears: to deliver every nuance and detail of the recording, but at the same time to make listening a joyful, utterly involving experience.
A good system should let you listen for many hours without fatigue. It should allow the finest recordings to weave their spell, but—as far as it can without sacrificing fidelity—it should be forgiving of recordings with flaws.
Our aim is the highest fidelity and musical involvement, delivered in real-life listening rooms. The interesting thing is that the better the loudspeaker design, the less sensitive it is to room placement.
For us, a system which needs a purpose-built, heavily-treated room to perform is a failure. Just as much of a failure are loudspeakers which demand inch perfect placement before they sing, or deliver a tiny sweet spot only inches wide.
Of course, there will be an ideal listening position, and a final sliver of performance from the optimal speaker setup. Place any of our speakers perfectly in carefully-designed and acoustically-treated room and you will understand why they have enjoyed so many accolades. However, we also aim to deliver very close to that ultimate performance from any listening position in any room, with as much placement flexibility as possible.
This has driven many of the fundamental design decisions in YG loudspeakers—our complex, sealed cabinets, our Lattice tweeter and other proprietary drivers, our finely tuned crossovers.
Science & Engineering: The Driver in the Background
With so much detailed science and engineering behind our products, why do we give so little space to this in our marketing?
Because they are means to an end. We are hugely proud of the understanding and modeling capabilities we have built, but they are just tools to let us build speakers which do magical things when you hear them.
We are quietly confident that our measurement and modeling capabilities are at the forefront of the high-end audio industry. Science, computational modeling and high-precision engineering suffuse every aspect of our products. So much so that we fear we would bore our audience if we went into every detail.
Our mantra of design-build-listen-measure-model extends from the outline physical design of the loudspeaker down to the tiniest of elements. From our revolutionary Lattice tweeter, to our ground-breaking crossover designs; from our drive units and crossover components through to even the lacquer on our Peaks cabinets. Every single aspect has been investigated, measured, modeled an optimized.
So why don’t we lead our marketing with all this? Because it’s not important. What’s important is how the speakers sound to people: in real systems, in real rooms. That’s what we want to talk about. How they make us feel, how they give us goose-bumps when we listen, and how close they bring us to the heart and soul of the music we love.
YG Acoustics Sonja 2.2 loudspeakers available to demo at Criterion Audio.
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The Sonja represents one of the finest floorstanding home audio loudspeakers available today.
Sonja is YG Acoustics flagship, and represents everything that we know about speaker-design. Driven by innovative applications of acoustical engineering and world-class precision-manufacturing, Sonja pushes the edge of the art. Marrying these elements with stunning industrial design, results in a loudspeaker which is transformative in both performance and sheer visual beauty. Sonja – unparalleled sonics, timelessly elegant form, pure seduction… handmade in U.S.A.
Innovations include, first and foremost, breakthrough drivers machined in-house, and proprietary toroidal air-core crossover inductors. These enhancements result in ultra-low distortion, while preserving the industry-leading frequency and phase response that YG Acoustics is famous for.
The bass and mid-range units are made in-house using YG Acoustics proprietary BilletCore technology: the drivers are precisely machined out of massive slabs of aircraft-grade aluminum. This unique process offers overwhelmingly superior dynamics, musical delicacy and low distortion due to industry-leading rigidity and accuracy (tight tolerances).
The tweeter incorporates YG Acoustics ingenious ForgeCore system: in-house CNC-cutting introduces sophisticated 3D geometries into the motor system. The resulting improvement is greatly reduced distortion and a sense of ease to the sound.
YG Acoustics crossover circuits are all created using proprietary software developed entirely in-house. DualCoherent technology provides the best frequency response and relative phase available. Competing speakers are optimized in either the frequency domain (most common) or time domain. Only YG Acoustics has the ability to optimize both domains simultaneously.
Sonja’s crossover uses ToroAir technology: in-house CNC-wound toroidal air-core inductors are unique in eliminating cross-talk (cross-contamination) common in crossover circuits. The result is preservation of high-frequency detail without harshness, brightness or sibilance.
Sonja’s exquisite cabinet combines visual refinement with over-engineering. It is constructed of precision-machined aircraft-grade aluminum alloy. This material, using vibration-free pressurized assembly, allows for the most acoustically desirable enclosure achievable. The multi-layered structure is optimized for each module’s specific frequency range. This ensures the lowest vibration achievable, even at extreme volume levels.
FocusedElimination anti-resonance technology keeps mechanical losses lower than any competing speaker, by combining the minimized turbulence of a sealed design with the low friction otherwise associated with enclosure-free concepts.
YG Acoustics speakers are not voiced. All measurements are verified using extensive listening tests, but the speakers are not artificially manipulated. YG Acoustics speakers simply convey the recording – nothing more, nothing less.
The end-result: Sonja sets benchmarks in transparency, 3D-soundstaging, dynamics, bandwidth, inner-detail, and the natural sound of a live performance that YG Acoustics™ is famous for. This is all presented in a refined, elegant speaker with an exquisite fit-and-finish that is the showpiece of the world’s finest listening environments.
Configurations
Sonja is available in four fully modular configurations, each of which can be expanded to the next, without the need to replace existing modules:
- Sonja 1.1 – an ultra-high-end compact speaker. Available with or without a matching stand.
- Sonja 1C – a center-channel speaker. Available with or without a matching stand.
- Sonja 1.2 – an ultra-high-end medium-sized floorstanding speaker. Consists of Sonja 1.1 interlocked atop a matching bass module.
- Sonja 1.3 – the flagship; an ultra-high-end large floorstanding speaker. Consists of Sonja™ 1.1 interlocked atop dual matching bass modules.
Speakers from YG Acoustics Anat III, Anat Reference II and Anat Reference (serial #036 and upward) lines can be upgraded to Sonja, without the need to replace the speakers. The products are mostly field-upgradeable, in a matter of hours.
Sonja is fully compatible with multi-channel audio and home-theater systems. Sonja speakers can also be combined with speakers from YG Acoustics’ other lines for properly phase-coherent multi-channel systems.
Specifications:
- Deviation: ±1 dB in the audible band, ±5° relative phase throughout entire overlap. Exceptional pair-matching; usable output extends from below 20 Hz to above 40 kHz
- Drivers: BilletCore ultra-high-rigidity woofers and mid-woofers. ForgeCore ultra-low-distortion tweeter
- Filters:Sonja is fully-passive. A semi-active version is available for acoustically-problematic rooms. Proprietary DualCoherent™ crossover at 65 Hz and 1.75 kHz. Designed using software developed in-house. ToroAir™ inductors eliminate cross-talk
- Sensitivity: 88 dB / 2.83 V / 1 m 2π anechoic
- Impedance: 4Ω nominal, 3Ω minimum
- Dimensions: Sonja 1.1 – 50x21x53 cm (20x8x21”) HxWxD. Sonja™ 1.2 – 129x33x63 cm (51x13x25”) HxWxD. Sonja™ 1.3 – 179x43x72 cm (70x17x28”) HxWxD
- Weight: Sonja™ 1.1 / Sonja™ 1C – 57 kg (124 lbs) per channel unpackaged/ Sonja™ 1.2 – 135 kg (296 lbs) per channel unpackaged. Sonja™ 1.3 – 230 kg (506 lbs) per channel unpackaged
