Ovator S-800

Drawing on over five years of research, the Ovator S-800 represents a significant step forward in Naim Audio’s balanced mode radiator (BMR) design pioneered by the S-400 and S-600. The Ovator S-800's refined BMR constitutes its most visible technological advance, yet the performance of this loudspeaker is equally the result of painstaking refinement in numerous elements of design, construction, and material selection.

The loudspeaker uses two new finely tuned, custom-designed flat-panel bass drivers to handle the lowest frequencies. These are accompanied by the purpose-engineered and painstakingly refined BMR unit. This unit’s unique dispersion characteristics and freedom from crossover discontinuities, along with its vastly wide bandwidth, allow the S-800 to deliver a performance never before realised with traditional technology. The freedom from distortion and coloration achieved is truly ground-breaking and revelatory to experience.

One vital element in the design of a high performance bass driver is its chassis. Great rigidity and an open structure are vital but potentially conflicting requirements, so the pressure die-cast bass driver chassis of the Ovator S-800 incorporates a triangulated framework, borne of finite-element analysis, that ensures both rigidity and unimpeded air passage.