Eclipse TD307 Mk3

PASSIVE DESKTOP SPEAKERS

The TD307 Mk3, like other Eclipse models, is not a design that follows convention. All the company’s speakers since 2001’s TD512 have been designed to the same engineering template. The priority has always been to reproduce the time domain (hence ‘TD’) as accurately as possible, where almost every other rival on the market places more importance on getting the frequency balance right. The result is invariably a set of compromises and strengths that are unique in the market.

Eclipse at its heart

The use of a single drive unit is fundamental to achieving Eclipse’s aim. Doing things this way avoids not only multiple drivers that need to be integrated, but also the use of an electrical crossover network that innately introduces phase distortion, neuters detail resolution and restrains dynamic expression.

The 65mm drive unit in this third-gen TD307 is all-new, with a fibreglass cone replacing the previous model’s paper unit. There are refinements to the motor system to give it more muscle, and greater volume inside that moulded egg-shaped enclosure. To give you an idea of size, these speakers stand just 210mm in height and are barely 135mm wide – they really are tiny.