Description
Type Two-way stand-mount loudspeaker
Drivers Horn-loaded 19mm textile dome tweeter, 178mm uncoated paper mid-bass unit
Frequency Response: 38Hz-25kHz
Sensitivity: 90 dB/W/M
Impedance: 8 ohms
Dimensions: 37.5cm w x 25cm d x 89cm h including optional stands
Weight: 12.7Kg Ea
Our goal at DeVORE FIDELITY is to create products that communicate the life-breath of music. We believe that the best means to this end combines the art of aesthetics with the science of physics in such a way that each complements the other, and together yield a product far greater than the sum of its parts.
Founded by president and chief designer John DeVore in 2000, DeVORE FIDELITY has gone on to win awards and universal acclaim for every one if its products, as John continues to push the state of the art in speaker design. John brought his 30 years of experience as a musician, 20 years of designing speakers and 18 years of Hi-Fi industry experience to his company, and, as Stereophile put it back in 2005, “DeVore Fidelity is a young company, but at Home Entertainment Shows and CESes over the last half decade, its products have pulled down critical kudos and consumer raves that more established companies would kill for. “
"Beyond any salient technical detail, the way that the O/baby conjures up ‘I’m Not The Man I Used To Be’ is a heady mix. It’s a combination of time travel and holographic manifestation that significantly more expensive speakers have failed to match...
In fact, ‘compelling’ is a neat one-word summary of what DeVore Fidelity has built here. The DeVore Fidelity O/baby is a concentrated dose of what makes larger Orangutan speakers such an addictive listening experience...
Even if you aren’t looking for a wide baffle, high-sensitivity speaker, it might be just the ticket for any system. The O/baby is everything that genuinely great hi-fi should be. It represents one of the very best speakers available..."
Ed Selley, July 2024
https://hifiplus.com/articles/...
"...the music flowing into my room was terrific: physical, live, enveloping, natural, with good scale. Dynamics ranged from house-mouse still to boisterous and brazen. The sweet spot was truly sweet...
Any new piece of kit, if it is good and interesting, should pull new and surprising sounds from oft-played recordings, and that was the very essence of the O/baby experience. My standard low-end workout record, Kraftwerk's Tour de France (LP, Kling Klang 50999 9 66109), sounded especially fresh. The propulsive synth-base of the title track was clearer than I recalled hearing it—and I've heard it recently. As the side-long track progressed, the O/baby revealed each subtle textural, rhythmic, and ambient variation in the bass. Said bass was less weighty than through the O/96s but tight and well-resolved. In a way, it reminded me of the GoldenEar BRX but with added weight and extension. The O/babies delivered big-bass tonnage on electronic records by Photek, a Tribe Called Quest, and Erik B & Rakim.
The O/baby's exacting, revealing, supersilky treble resolved not just the title track's swoop swoop swoop hi-hat eighth notes but also the perky hi-hat 16th notes above. The speaker's precise treble focus and upper-midrange clarity provided constant surprise and delight...
If you've wanted to experience the DeVore sound but have a smaller room, this speaker was made for you. If you've wanted to sample DeVore Fidelity but at a lower price: ditto. The O/baby's top end is sweetly extended, supertransparent, and informative—probably beyond its older, larger, more expensive Orangutan siblings, both of which spent years in this room. Its midrange is rich but also transparent, in keeping with the DeVore house sound. The low-end delivered everything that mattered on my jazz, electronic, and hip-hop albums with, in this room, more clarity and better control than the larger DeVores. "
“Only four speakers ever brought me to tears: Apogee’s Scintilla, the
Wilson Sasha DAW, LS3/5As and now DeVore’s O/baby. I’m not suggesting
what I heard can be duplicated even if one assembled the exact same
system, as I bow to the synergy with my room. What is telling is that I
spent seven straight hours in there just for the Ƃrst session,
transƂxed. For size, if not price, these have no rivals I can name.”
Ken Kessler, HiFi News
“When I unpacked the O/Baby speakers, I was surprised by how small
the cabinets are. I shouldn’t have been. John performed a miracle to get
this kind of dynamics, scale, life, and transparency out of such a
small speaker. The tunefulness and lack of crossover distortion is
amazing for their size. They get the essentials right. The sound defies
their size by many times.”
Jack Roberts, The Audio Beatnick
"...the Devore Fidelity O/Baby immediately asserted itself in the room with a big open sound with plenty of deep bass. When the O/96s in the system, I had reminded of how these two-way high-efficiency designs look modest on the surface but actually sound like a far more complex transducer–in all the good ways, of course. The O/Baby preserves this vision of a relatively simple design that gets right to the heart of the music.
I’ll make a prediction about the DeVore Fidelity O/Baby. It will be a big deal. People will line up to hear them–and hopefully buy them–because they offer so much in a relatively compact and affordable package. I walked out of the room, immediately saw John DeVore, and made some sort of futile and awkward gesture that indicated I had fallen in love."
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