The Skiff: redefining the micro loudspeakerThe Skiff, like other of Role Audio loudspeakers, is designed to deliver large scale loudspeaker performance in the smallest possible design.
The skiff represents the holy grail in loudspeaker design. It uses a single full range driver which means it is a true point source, it is perfectly time coherent, minimum phase, and has no phase or driver integration problems. The Skiff is simply one of the most accurate loudspeaker you can find at any price.
The Skiff is designed to play solo or with a subwoofer. Although it measures only 6 inches high by 4 inches wide by 5 inches deep, the Skiff can fill most rooms with large scale, accurate, full range, non-fatiguing music with surprising bass response. While its bass roll-off pattern allows seamless integration with large subwoofers.
It is small and beautiful enough to place almost anywhere. And it is fully magnetically shielded so it may be placed near to CRTs. It may be used as a small center channel speaker, or the best sounding small surround speakers. You can play loudly of softly. Either way, it will out-class the competition.
Its accuracy and imaging allow it to thoroughly unravel a recording.
The Skiff is available in beautiful red birch plywood, satin black, or warm white lacquer cabinets, all with rounded edges, topped-off with Superiors five-way binding posts and a retainer for Omnimount 10.0 series brackets.
Special Features:
True point source
Magnetically shielded
Perfect time coherence
Superior five-way terminals
True minimum phase
Cast frame full-range transducer
Omnimount 10.0 Series bracket retainer
Note: Grills are not removable
...I cant think of many speakers anywhere near its price or size that can rival (much less best) it in certain areas of reproduction. The upper midrange smoothness and coherence in particular is something to behold... its surprisingly neutral and capable with a variety of music...
" The more time I spend with the Skiffs, the less inclined I am to try bigger speakers. The Skiffs make "small is beautiful" into more than a cliché."
"It is crisply delineated yet silky smooth, with excellent articulation and resolution. As good as the Windjammer was with woodwind instruments like oboe, flute, or clarinet, the Skiff may just edge it out in sheer beauty of woodwind sound. Im not sure its necessarily a more accurate transducer than my reference Merlin TSM ..."
"The more time I spend with the Skiffs, the less inclined I am to try bigger speakers."
"Tones are pure and pristine, with just a bit of emphasis on the fundamental over the delicate harmonics above."
"...its a just a little box, but thats much of its appeal - stealth high-end audio at its finest. Leave audio jewelry to the poseurs wearing blinged-out Rolexes."
"I could see five of these little guys plus a good subwoofer making a quality compact multi-channel system that would positively embarrass those satellite/subwoofer "home theater" systems from the mass-fi manufacturers."
"Close your eyes, spin around on your computer chair three times, and I dare you to accurately point to where the drivers are located. The combination of no crossover, point source drivers, and a well-damped acoustic suspension cabinet creates a nearly ideal close-field monitor. If seamless imaging floats your boat, it will bobbing happily along in time with the music heard through these little beasties."
"...the Skiffs produce a remarkably linear frequency response over their entire range."
"The small size, magnetic shielding, easy interface, easy interfacing requirements (amp/cable) and flexibility of placement make it a dream for the audiophile with "lifestyle"-type applications."
"When compared to the ... Aperion 422 speakers, the Skiffs deliver slightly better low-level resolution and less overall homogenization. ... Surprisingly, although the 422s have a separate dome tweeter, they have no additional top end air or treble attenuation when compared to the Skiffs."
"The [Gallo] Adivas image just as well as the Role Skiffs."