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The Iota range puts full-scale performance into small cabinets — the Iota II is a 2.6-litre standmount, and the Iota Alpha II is a 45 cm floorstander with an upward-firing mid\/bass driver, a downward-firing subwoofer and a 50 mm EMIT planar magnetic tweeter. The Classic range traces back to the original Petite and runs Petite Classic, Mystique Classic and Elite Classic, with the Vito Classic at the top. The Strata series pairs a true ribbon tweeter with isobaric bass loading across the Majistra standmount and the Orkestra floorstander. The Momentum series applies Neat's Ultimatum-derived engineering — AMT tweeter, isobaric bass loading, mechanically decoupled front baffle — to the Momentum JS and Momentum J6.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo engineering ideas recur across the line. The first is isobaric bass loading: two bass drivers working as a coupled pair inside a sealed chamber. It produces low-frequency extension and control that a cabinet of that volume would not otherwise give. The Orkestra is 22 cm wide and Neat quotes it to 20 Hz. The second is mechanical quiet — the front baffle decoupled on a flexible membrane, the crossover hard-wired, the enclosure damped — so the drivers work against a structure that stays still.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHi-Fi+ has named the Orkestra its Floorstanding Loudspeaker of the Year and the Ekstra its High-Value Loudspeaker of the Year, describing Neat's speakers as \"designed almost solely by ear, listening to music rather than test-tones.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat this means in a real room: Neat speakers are small for what they do. Cabinet widths run 19 to 22 cm across most of the line and the floorstanders stop near a metre tall. They fit rooms where a conventional speaker of the same bass extension would not, and they do not demand large amplifiers — every recommended power range in the line starts at 25 watts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe line runs from $1,499 to $12,999 per pair. Neat is available at both Alma showrooms — Alma West in San Diego and Alma East in Sterling, Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"neat-acoustics-iota-ii-bookshelf-speakers","title":"Neat Acoustics Iota II Bookshelf Speakers","description":"\u003cp\u003eNeat Acoustics has built loudspeakers in Barnard Castle, County Durham since 1989. Bob Surgeoner founded the company as a hi-fi shop, put the first Petite into full production in 1991, and moved Neat to full-time loudspeaker manufacture in 1993. Measurements inform the designs; the final judgement is made by ear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Iota II is the smallest loudspeaker Neat builds. A 2.6-litre cabinet carries a 100 mm polypropylene mid\/bass driver and a 50 mm vertical planar magnetic tweeter. The enclosure is rigid and well damped, the crossover and internal wiring use high-grade components, and the drivers are finely matched. From those 2.6 litres Neat quotes a frequency response of 33 Hz to 22 kHz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe cabinet is 13 cm tall and 20 cm wide, which suits a shelf, a sideboard or a dedicated stand. Nominal impedance is 6 ohms and the recommended amplifier range is 25 to 100 watts, so it does not need a large amplifier to work properly. 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