Reviewers' Choice Award - soundstageaccess.com
Star Component Award - Audiophilia
True-to-Nature Sound and Unexpectedly Deep Bass
Pristine true-to-nature sound and unexpectedly deep bass are hallmarks of the PSB Imagine B50 bookshelf speaker. It's the little brother to the Imagine T65 and T54 towers, but it's a big performer when it comes to the detail this speaker can bring out of your favorite music within a compact footprint.
Featuring a two-way bass reflex design and rear-facing slot port, these speakers envelop any space in full-frequency sound and are ideal for hi-fi, home theater, a music streaming system, and more. The B50 boasts a 1" titanium dome tweeter with ferrofluid neodymium magnet and a 5.25" woofer with a woven carbon fiber cone with rubber surround.
Award-Winning Performance
"The Imagine B50 won a Reviewers' Choice Award from soundstageaccess.com. According to reviewer Dennis Burger, "It does all of the things that matter most—good dispersion, good sound power across the listening window, neutral midrange—incredibly well. The fact that it has a surprising amount of truly meaningful bass extension is as welcomed as it is surprising."
"If for some reason I were forced to use the B50s as my only stereo speakers for the rest of my life, sans sub, I would legitimately be hard-pressed to find much to grumble about or pine for."
"Will Surprise Beyond Belief"
Audiophilia honored the Imagine B50 with a Star Component Award. "With living spaces receding in size through purposeful planning, these little guys can offer you a larger-than-life portal through which to play your music. They will feed a space in a 360-degree fullness that will surprise beyond belief—whether you are sitting in the sweet spot or moving around the room," observes Charles Brown.
It gives me great joy to assign the Audiophilia Star Component Award to the PSB B-50 Imagine series Bookshelf speakers."
Slim, Minimalist Cabinet Design
With this new Imagine Series PSB strikes the perfect balance between design and acoustic performance. Featuring a slim, minimalist cabinet design and available in Satin Black and White, the speakers add elegance and refinement to any decor. The aluminum trim and chamfered edges create visual interest without being distracting and makes them a perfect complement to the premium PWM Series on-wall speakers for a high-performance home theatre system.
Flagship-Grade Technology
PSB went the extra mile with Imagine. All three Imagine models inherit the same flagship-grade technology that adorns PSB’s prestigious Synchrony and PWM speakers, ensuring every component meets the highest standards of quality and performance.
The Imagine tweet exploits an advanced, highly linear, and remarkably efficient neodymium-magnet design derived from the flagship Synchrony series. It helps to extend output at both frequency extremes for effortless, airy top octaves and smooth, uncolored response through the critical crossover region coupled with high power handling.
A Commitment to Superior Sound
The Imagine Series is a testament to PSB’s long-standing commitment to offering the highest ratio of performance for value in loudspeaker design. This collection showcases three exceptional models: the B50 2-way bookshelf, T54 3-way tower, and T65 3-way tower. Each model exemplifies sophisticated design, powerful detailed sound, and advanced technology, to ensure that every music enthusiast and audiophile can experience the satisfaction of premium sound.
Advanced Crossover
Like nearly every PSB Speaker design, the Imagine networks employ fourth-order acoustic Linkwitz-Reilly crossover topology. It combines discrete drivers into cohesive acoustic entities with minimal impact in either amplitude domain (frequency-response) or that of time (phase-response).
Bi-Wireable / Bi-Ampable Binding Posts and More
The B50 has additional high performance features. Select components and careful layout maximize signal transfer and keep static and dynamic distortions well below meaningful limits. Heavy, all-metal multiway binding posts on all Imagine models accept bare wire, lugs, banana plugs, open and closed spades, and enable bi-wiring or bi-amplifying.
