When a showroom is in our suburban neighbourhood told us that we'd better come to their demo room pronto, we didn't know what to expect. So when they hit us with the voluptuous ladies recently delivered to them by Morel, we were stomped. Immediately we knew why Morel had named this pair of exotic and very expensive loudspeakers ‘The Fat Lady’, because when it sings, it might just mark the end of your lifelong search for the perfect tower Speaker.
OUT OF THE BOX
There's nothing ‘fat’ about the Fat Lady, in fact if it had legs, I wouldn't mind seeing these women walk the ramp for Versace. With not a single straight line anywhere on its body, this pair definitely looks like a musical instrument and that's just what Morel had in mind while designing it. Its twinkling black cabinet isn't purely black but rather is laced with off-white webby dashes, much like the drivers it houses. Simultaneously, the cabinet looks mighty heavy but actually isn't. Why this is so, will be best explained in the next section but until then you must take a moment to absorb the pure aesthetic brilliance with which this pair has been designed. If it wasn't for the Boomerang guys watching us carefully I would've given this pair a big Hug.
TECHNOLOGY
Let's talk about the elephant in the living room first, the cabinet. It's made from a lacquered carbon fibre mixed with fiberglass and epoxy resin, which explains both the rigidity and the fact that they aren't as heavy as they look. In addition, Morel opted to not use any sort of damping material so as to let the cabinet vibrate with the drivers without any obstruction. And when the drivers are done vibrating, the cabinet stops immediately to not leave any hanging frequencies in the air. This could only be done by a company like Morel, which manufactures its own drivers, and further fine-tunes the hell out of them to make them perfectly integrated with this cabinet.
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