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The smoothness and rich warmth of the MkII Lynxes’ midrange is exemplified on Tomorrow is My Turn, a song written by Charles Aznavour (as L’amour c’est comme un jour and performed by him in the original French most recently as a duet with Sting) and whose signature hook was greatly borrowed from by Steve Arnold to compose his song for the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies. Listen in particular to the change in the tone of Simone’s delivery at around 1:16, then the way she contrasts it around a minute further in. The superb midrange of the Chario MkII Lynx makes such contrasts crystal-clear. History Instance ID : xmp.iid:f3996458-d759-4eeb-9d57-443f7d6ebc68, xmp.iid:d2d57d62-6b2b-46f1-a34d-36ee11271f6b But full marks to Chario for being realistic about room acoustics. It’s just a simple matter of physics that as room size increases, so too does the need for loudspeakers to have larger bass drivers and larger cabinets. But it’s physics that most speaker manufacturers choose to ignore or gloss over entirely in their quest for increased sales at any cost. Chario is obviously more interested in having satisfied customers than in increasing its sales figures at any cost. To test the MkII Lynx’s high frequencies, it seemed appropriate to listen to a particular John Cage work famed for its tweeter-testing abilities. But listening to a work by Cage was also prompted because quite recently (September 7th) a small audience in the St. Burchardi Church in the town of Halberstadt, Germany, heard the first chord change in almost seven years in the slowest musical piece in the world, Organ²/ASLSP, an organ work by Cage, which started on Sept. 5, 2001 – the day that would have been Cage’s 89th birthday. The entire work takes 649 years to play, so the final note will not be played until some time in September 2640.
The cone is made from a paper compound, while the cone suspension, which has a normal ‘traditional’ roll surround, is made from a rubber compound. The central dust-cap is dished, rather than domed, which gives a much cleaner ‘look’. The tweeters in the MkII Lynx reproduced all these sounds with tremendous élan, and the repetitive nature of the work means that you can also use it to experiment with exactly how off-axis you’d like to position yourself with regard to the tweeters to ensure the best balance between the mids and the highs. Final verdict Irrespective of the speaker position (stand-mount or table-mount) I thought the overall sound of the Chario Constellation MkII Lynx was excellent, with its stand-out feature being a very clean, natural midrange sound that has a beautifully rich warmth to it.
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And as for the “Constellation II’ in the Lynx’s model name, it appears that the ‘II’ is to indicate that there was a previous Constellation (I) range, of which production ceased in 2016, and the ‘Constellation’ is because the Lynx is part of a Constellation ‘Series’ of speakers, the others in which are the already-mentioned Delphinus, the Cygnus and the Pegasus... names that are also attributed to constellations of stars.
The crossover point between the tweeter and the bass/midrange driver is at 1.5kHz, a frequency that’s the same as the Delphinus. In this case, because the MkII Lynx has a smaller driver, it theoretically is more easily able to get up to this frequency, albeit at the cost of losing some extension in the low frequencies because of the reduced cone excursion and smaller cone area. History Software Agent : Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 (Macintosh), Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 (Macintosh)As for the port itself, the one on the MkII Lynx is 185mm in length and 55mm in diameter, with neither its entry nor its exit flared. What is on the rear baffle is a single pair of gold-plated multi-way speaker connectors that accept banana plugs, spades, ring connectors and bare wire. Personally, if I had designed these speakers, I would have put the connectors underneath the cabinet, where they’d be completely out of sight. If you really want deep bass, you’d be advised to use a subwoofer with these Charios and as I had a couple on hand for review I was able to experiment with how well they integrated with the MkII Lynx. I was impressed by how easy it was both with the two review loaner subs and also with my own subwoofer. Whereas some manufacturers will insist that their smallest pair of speakers could be used in a football stadium, Chario is pretty specific about the size of the room it recommends for the Lynx, saying “not more than 14 square metres, and not less than 6 square metres”.
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