{"id":3755,"date":"2025-05-02T23:40:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T21:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:58:13","slug":"diptyque-audio-renews-its-reference-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/news\/diptyque-audio-renews-its-reference-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Diptyque audio renews its Reference panel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Introduced just 3 years ago, Diptyque Audio&#8217;s Reference panel has since extended its design to all the Montalban brand&#8217;s lower-end models. This year, however, it has already been modified with a Mk2 version.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Having become one of the world&#8217;s leading isodynamic panel manufacturers in just a few years, French company Diptyque made an impression in 2022 with the launch of its aptly-named R\u00e9f\u00e9rence model (reviewed here <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/diptyque-audio-reference\/\"><em>https:\/\/vumetre.com\/diptyque-audio-reference\/<\/em><\/a><em>), featuring a more innovative design than that of the older DP77 or DP140. At the High End 2025 trade show in Munich, the manufacturer is already planning to present a R\u00e9f\u00e9rence Mk2, whose modifications will not be so much to the panel itself, although its dimensions have been revised upwards (185 cm high vs. 180 cm previously, for a width of 70 cm vs. 65 cm in Mk1) as to the components.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For example, the panel gains a new, larger aluminum foot, less subject to vibration. There are better capacitors on the midrange ribbon, a new connector between the crossover and the panel, and on the bass diaphragms, an optimized design for the rear grilles to improve damping, as well as a new ultra-rigid chassis to hold them in place.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Already very attracted by the first version, we cannot wait to hear this new version, especially when we know that it will be amplified at theMunich show by Kora&#8217;s huge new pure Class A power amplifiers!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>02\/05\/2025<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduced just 3 years ago, Diptyque Audio&#8217;s Reference panel has since extended its design to all the Montalban brand&#8217;s lower-end models. This year, however, it has already been modified with a Mk2 version. Having become one of the world&#8217;s leading isodynamic panel manufacturers in just a few years, French company Diptyque made an impression in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":3756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}