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stenheim alumine five3 Way Floor Standing Speaker
Priced From NZD $155,000
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description
The Alumine Five is a scaled-down version of the world-acclaimed Reference speaker, featuring the same midrange driver and tweeter. Entirely made in Switzerland, the full aluminium, floor-standing, Alumine Five speaker combines unparalleled expertise and years of research to bring you exceptional sound and musical immersion. The trademark Stenheim extreme high-efficiency allows pairing with the finest quality low-powered amplifiers so that you never have to sacrifice musicality for power.
Swiss state-of-the-art design and attention to aesthetics pervade the clean and elegant aluminum cabinet both inside and out. Never before has design and fidelity conspired to yield such ethereal yet tangible results. During the development process, Stenheim decided against embracing some of the ubiquitous and exotic technologies such as “diamond” or “beryllium” diaphragms. Instead, after exhaustive listening sessions, they decided that the most satisfying results were achieved with some of the older methods. The opportunity was not in embracing new trends but more in revisiting the tried and true methods that worked but simply developing them further. The Stenheim Alumine Five uses proprietary multilayer cone drivers with textile surrounds mated to extremely powerful quality magnets, resulting in high speed, tonality and beauty.
The Alumine Five is still a relatively compact speaker when you consider its capabilities and it embodies all of Stenheim’s fundamental design principles:
Such is the performance and tonality of the Alumine Five that it is in some way symbolic of a feeling within high end audio communities that the best way of achieving the most enjoyable results is by staying true to a high-quality modern interpretation of old-school principles. This is a real music lover’s speaker and has rocked the old establishment. In the USA, Stenheim speakers are featuring in ‘best sound of show’ rooms on a regular basis. Years ago, if you had a reasonable budget to spend on ultimate level speakers, the press would lead you to believe that you really only had 2-3 choices because those brands allocated significant budgets to the marketing of their products. However, today, people are voting with their ears and Stenheim is at the forefront of a movement often referred to as a ‘re-discovering of musicality’. Outrageously good!
Swiss state-of-the-art design and attention to aesthetics pervade the clean and elegant aluminum cabinet both inside and out. Never before has design and fidelity conspired to yield such ethereal yet tangible results. During the development process, Stenheim decided against embracing some of the ubiquitous and exotic technologies such as “diamond” or “beryllium” diaphragms. Instead, after exhaustive listening sessions, they decided that the most satisfying results were achieved with some of the older methods. The opportunity was not in embracing new trends but more in revisiting the tried and true methods that worked but simply developing them further. The Stenheim Alumine Five uses proprietary multilayer cone drivers with textile surrounds mated to extremely powerful quality magnets, resulting in high speed, tonality and beauty.
The Alumine Five is still a relatively compact speaker when you consider its capabilities and it embodies all of Stenheim’s fundamental design principles:
- A larger than expected bass-mid driver with a sophisticated, treated paper cone.
- A fabric dome tweeter, carefully horn loaded for increased efficiency.
- A high order, phase-coherent crossover to preserve the fragile but all-important temporal and spatial information in the stereo signal.
- A thin-wall aluminium cabinet built with hidden fixings and golden ratio dimensions.
- Low-volume damping materials to kill cabinet resonance and internal standing waves without killing musical dynamics.
Such is the performance and tonality of the Alumine Five that it is in some way symbolic of a feeling within high end audio communities that the best way of achieving the most enjoyable results is by staying true to a high-quality modern interpretation of old-school principles. This is a real music lover’s speaker and has rocked the old establishment. In the USA, Stenheim speakers are featuring in ‘best sound of show’ rooms on a regular basis. Years ago, if you had a reasonable budget to spend on ultimate level speakers, the press would lead you to believe that you really only had 2-3 choices because those brands allocated significant budgets to the marketing of their products. However, today, people are voting with their ears and Stenheim is at the forefront of a movement often referred to as a ‘re-discovering of musicality’. Outrageously good!
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reviews
Absolute Sound (Best Sound at Show – AXPONA 2019), Jonathan Valin, 2019
"The four-driver, three-way Stenheim Alumine Five (two 10” woofers, 6.5” neodymium midrange, and neodymium tweeter in a massive aluminum cabinet), driven by VTL and sourced by VPI/Lyra, was real good on The Band Last Waltz LPs I brought to Chicago, with superb staging, imaging, tone, dynamics and bass. It was quite good on my Pretenders LP, too, with unusually good expressiveness on Chrissie Hynde’s vocals. It showed none of the flashes of brightness or of megaphoning that I heard so often with other displays. Simply an excellent balance of all criteria, and excellent sound. "
Art Dudley, Stereophile, 2018
"The Alumine Five sets itself apart by offering traditional high-end audio strengths—very wide bandwidth, excellent spatial performance, and freedom from gross colorations—with the drivability and consequent good levels of touch, force, and musical momentum that are seldom associated with loudspeakers of contemporary design and manufacture."
product specifications
Type
3-way floor standing speaker with 4 high efficiency transducers
Construction
Massive aluminium cabinet with 4 independent chambers. The midrange and tweeter chambers are closed & the others feature laminated front ports.
Frequency Response
28Hz – 35kHz
Power Handling
200W RMS, 400W (peak)
Sensitivity
94 dB SPL/2.83V/1m (measured in a semi-reverberant room)
SPL Max
109 dB
Nominal Impedance
8 Ohms
Drivers
2 x 10 inch woofers
1 x 6.5 inch neodymium medium drivers
1 x neodymium tweeter
Crossover
Passive 3-way crossover using audiophile grade components
Bi-Wiring
Yes, with WBT Nextgen Pole Terminals
Finishes
Light shiny Grey, Dark shiny grey, Full Black, Wood veneer or Leather veneer, Special finishes on demand
Special Versions
Special Edition (SE) version has ultimate quality components (crossover, internal wiring and connectors).
Signature by JC Gaberel, with external crossover, front leather baffle, massive aluminium platform, dedicated internal wiring and special tuning for each speaker.
Warranty
5 years
Dimensions
1,200mm (H) x 280mm (W) x 330mm (D)
47.2 inches (H) x 11 inches (W) x 15 inches (D)
Weight
100 Kg each, 130 kg each for Signature version
3-way floor standing speaker with 4 high efficiency transducers
Construction
Massive aluminium cabinet with 4 independent chambers. The midrange and tweeter chambers are closed & the others feature laminated front ports.
Frequency Response
28Hz – 35kHz
Power Handling
200W RMS, 400W (peak)
Sensitivity
94 dB SPL/2.83V/1m (measured in a semi-reverberant room)
SPL Max
109 dB
Nominal Impedance
8 Ohms
Drivers
2 x 10 inch woofers
1 x 6.5 inch neodymium medium drivers
1 x neodymium tweeter
Crossover
Passive 3-way crossover using audiophile grade components
Bi-Wiring
Yes, with WBT Nextgen Pole Terminals
Finishes
Light shiny Grey, Dark shiny grey, Full Black, Wood veneer or Leather veneer, Special finishes on demand
Special Versions
Special Edition (SE) version has ultimate quality components (crossover, internal wiring and connectors).
Signature by JC Gaberel, with external crossover, front leather baffle, massive aluminium platform, dedicated internal wiring and special tuning for each speaker.
Warranty
5 years
Dimensions
1,200mm (H) x 280mm (W) x 330mm (D)
47.2 inches (H) x 11 inches (W) x 15 inches (D)
Weight
100 Kg each, 130 kg each for Signature version
