Mordaunt-Short Aviano 9: 300w Active Subwoofer

If you’ve got a serious space to fill – maybe a dedicated home theatre – or simply have a huge appetite for bass, there’s no substitute for something well, just a bit bigger. Enter Aviano 9, a sub on a mission to really rock the house!

With a 300 watt digital amplifier and 12" aluminium bass driver, Aviano 9 has enough grunt to keep you well and truly on the edge of your seat throughout the movie. And with Mordaunt-Short’s Adjustable Notch Filter, unwanted room frequencies can be completely ‘tuned-out’ to enable placement almost anywhere.

Subwoofer control panel

From the Aviano 9’s rear panel you can make simple adjustments to ensure your sub integrates perfectly into your system and ‘tune-out’ any unwanted effects from non-optimal room placement.

Aviano is an amazing hi-fi and home theatre speaker series combining unprecedented levels of performance, refinement and value.

100% designed and engineered in the UK, Aviano scores instantly with a purposeful, muscular yet refined look and comes alive in any living space. Soft organic contours of the front profile combine with exquisitely finished cabinets in carefully chosen hues.

And here's a first, a subwoofer that's kinder to the environment and your pocket! Aviano 9 is Energy Star Certified thanks to its ability to consume <1 Watt of power in standby mode.

Mordaunt-Short Aviano Reviews:

What Hi-Fi?

5 out of 5 stars

Stylish, solid build; loads of bass and power; even tonal balance; good attention to detail. These speakers are a bass-lover's dream, delivering controlled weight and power in abundance. There's no shortage of subtlety either, the 6s giving plenty of colour and inflection to Mayer Hawthorne's vocal in A Strange Arrangement. The brass, piano and wind sections are handled delicately and given room to breathe, making for an altogether even-handed, balanced sound.

If you prefer an authoritative, bassy sound, you really must hear these Avianos.

Sound + Vision Magazine, USA April 2010

The Mordaunt-Short Aviano 6 tower speaker reminds me why it’s sometimes best to hold out for something you truly love instead of something that merely gets the job done.

A few speaker engineers have confessed to me that they occasionally get lucky — that sometimes a particular combination of drivers, enclosure, and crossover yields a far better result than expected. The Aviano system, especially the Aviano 6 and Aviano 2, is a prime example of this phenomenon: speakers that start with skilled engineering, sprinkle in a little good fortune, and end up delivering sound quality that’s way out of proportion to the system’s price. I think audiophiles who hear these speakers will consider them one of the all-time great values in sound.

T3 February 2010

5 out of 5 Stars - 5.1 Speaker System Test Winner

Sublime sound for both music and movies. Flawless build quality and the 175W sub thunders like Thor.

Mordaunt-Short Aviano 9 Subwoofer Specifications

Output power     300 Watts active
Frequency response     30Hz – 200Hz
Drive unit     (1) 305mm/12" long throw woofer
Crossover     Active – Variable 50 Hz – 200Hz
Dimensions (h x w x d)     471 x 360 x 508mm
18.9 x 14.4 x 20.3"
Weight     28kg/61.1 lbs

Mordaunt-Short Aviano: A cut above the rest

Aviano is a complete hi-fi and home theatre speaker series from one of the UK’s most respected loudspeaker manufacturers and combines unprecedented levels of performance, refinement and value.

This impressive seven-strong range comprises a bookshelf, standmount and two floorstanding speakers, a dedicated centre channel design and two equally impressive subwoofers.

Aviano scores instantly with a purposeful, muscular yet refined look which comes alive in any living space. Soft organic contours of the front profile combine with exquisitely finished cabinets in carefully chosen hues.

Under the skin, a raft of innovative developments join forces with Mordaunt-Short’s critically-acclaimed audiophile technologies to deliver incredible sonic results.

Key to these is a new tweeter housing which takes cues from the company’s flagship Performance Series. Meanwhile, a thoroughly updated third generation CPCTM mid/bass driver lifts the company’s aluminium driver technology to new levels of refinement and an all-new crossover design guarantees incredible clarity. And providing the ultimate platform for all this technology, a sonically advanced bracing system and internal cabinet assembly increases rigidity to the highest levels yet.

And the result… a speaker range which rewards you with phenomenal performance, sensational value and, most importantly, an immensely enjoyable listen.

From breathtaking music to explosive home theatre!

Music...

While you might watch the same movie once or twice, chances are you know your music far more intricately and it’s here where you’ll notice the Aviano difference immediately. This is one seriously musical speaker range, offering the most incredible spacious experience, whatever music you’re into.

...and movies

Carefully developed and tested using the widest possible range of today’s most popular amplifiers, Aviano is guaranteed to offer excellent compatibility with a wide range of electronics. So whether your musical passion happens to be jazz, classical, rock, blues or indeed any other genre, you can be sure it will sound simply amazing.

Thrills, spills, bangs and crashes are what matter most when you’re engrossed in an action movie. Fortunately the new Aviano home theatre range effortlessly delivers detail, excitement, punchy, insightful bass extension and of course, totally accurate sound effects. Mordaunt-Short has been designing true home theatre speaker packages for nearly two decades and each Aviano system sounds like it’s been developed in harmony… and that’s because it has! The front and rear speakers integrate perfectly and critically, the centre and sub interject as needed with precise effects delivering dialogue and lower frequencies with perfect timing.

Take a look inside the Aviano

1. CPCTM aluminium cone ensures highly predictable driver performance with controlled piston-like movement at lower frequencies and minimal distortion at higher frequencies. Lightweight aluminium is chosen for faithful dynamics.
2. V-Form technology – an innovative driver cone connection to help maintain driver rigidity and results in a bigger, purer soundstage. Varied surround thickness aids pistonic operation and gives genuine timing improvements.
3. High flux density, self shielding neodymium magnet assemblies offer improved sensitivity and better dynamics than conventional
4. Tweeter magnets. Powerful Y30 magnets further enhance Aviano’s woofer.
5. Mordaunt-Short’s 20 year expertise in aluminium dome tweeter technology now features computer-modelled housing for improved dispersion characteristics. The tweeter utilises a high temperature voice coil with liquid cooling and damping for controlled high frequency performance and amazing detail.
6. New cabinet and driver bracing design provide ultimate rigidity and support.
7. Purist crossover design - isolate mounted to minimise distortion. Features premium grade components including high saturation
8. Inductors, DVPC (Dual Value Parallel Capacitors) and oversized resistors ensure optimal signal transfer.
9. Internal high density wadding for critical damping of standing waves.
10. Curved front baffle improves rigidity and dispersion characteristics.
11. Sculpted bullet terminals - easy connection using banana plugs, spade terminals or bare cable.
12. Rear porting for improved bass characteristics.
13. Easily removable front grille.