Introducing Alumni, the little home cinema speaker package that thinks big. Belying indredibly compact dimensions, Alumni is the latest in a long line of elegant Mordaunt-Short surround speaker systems. These stunning high-gloss designs utilise the company's forty year research and development expertise and truly make your movies and music come alive.

Mordaunt-Short's passion for innovative design and advanced voicing techniques means nothing takes the shine off Alumni's performance.Alumni's small but perfectly formed cabinets blend seamlessly into any listening environment and come in two striking finishes - piano black and white high-gloss. Alumni is designed so that each speaker integrates with the next to provide an expansive and truly engaging soundstage. Indeed, Alumni thrives on Mordaunt-Short's stereo speaker pedigree and is equally at home as a 2.1 set-up.

Alumni is an accessible way into high quality hi-fi and home cinema at an incredibly affordable price.

The Alumni 8 tower adds another dimension to the range by combining the healthy bass extension of a standard box speaker with the elegance of a slim podium. Alumni thrives on Mordaunt-Short’s acoustic pedigree and is equally at home in stereo, 2.1 with an Alumni 9 subwoofer or multichannel set-ups.

The Alumni 8 tower uses a 1" aluminium tweeter, two CPC Continuous Profile Cone drivers and four Acoustic Bass Radiators for a superbly fluid sound.

At lower frequencies, subwoofers become omni-directional in that it is difficult to detect where the sound is coming from which in turn makes for a more entertaining movie as you feel part of the action. If the surround speakers can better deal with lower frequencies then the subwoofer can concentrate on the real booming bass parts. The Alumni tower's greater frequency range allows the Alumni 9 subwoofer crossover to be set lower therefore aiding its integration into the system for a more coherent and thrill driven home cinema experience.

Indeed, you may find that the Alumni 8 tower provides enough bass extension removing the need for a subwoofer altogether.

Aesthetically pleasing from any angle, the Alumni 8 will look great in your home.

AV Max Review
The Mordaunt-Short’s Alumni is definitely a notch above the rest of the shouty, forward and distinctly distorted small speaker packages; it is evolved, clean and serene. Characters like good depth, diminutive but sharp and fine vocals, accurate texture and grain in the sound makes it a good music and movie package.

Home Cinema Choice Review
The stability of the timbre from speaker to speaker is admirable - such smooth transititon around the room makes these aural effects come to life.

Features:

Expands flexibility of Alumni system

Two latest generation 3.5” long-throw CPC™ (Continuous Profile Cone) woofers

1" aluminium dome tweeter which is light but incredibly rigid to reduce distortion

Four passive ABR (Acoustic Bass Radiators)

Curved cabinet design to reduce standing waves

Audiophile grade components throughout

Compact contemporary size blends seamlessly into any environment

Stunning piano black and white high gloss finishes

Protective grilles with contrast finishes

Dedicated stands and Omnimount Ready™ fittings

Technical Data:

Sensitivity 86dB (1 Watt input)

Frequency response 49Hz - 20kHz

Nominal impedance 4-8 Ohms

Power 15-100W Recommended

(2) 3.5" long-throw neodymium CPC woofer

(1) 1" tweeter

(4) Passive ABR

Crossover Second order

Dimensions (h x w x d) 800 x 118 x 122mm (31.5 x 4.7 x 4.9")

Weight 4.5kg (9.9lbs)