Acapella Spharon Excalibur Loudspeaker

[Ron Resnick]

This looks like an amazing system in a gigantic room! Note the one-of-a-kind David Berning ZOTL SET amplifier.

One man’s dream: the Acapella Spharon Excalibur speakers system (a consideration)

Introduction I became friends with Jim some years ago, as we were both pursuing an interest in the Audio Note UK top DA converter at the showroom of Colorado dealership Audio Federation. Jim’s determination to build a system that could reproduce as well as possible the sound of live music...

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[Ron Resnick]

Why don't we have more discussion about Acappella horn loudspeakers here?

I've heard only the smallest Acappella models at shows. (I like the plasma tweeter, even if it can sound a bit "hot." As long as the tweeter level can be turned down I'm happy with it.)

Has anyone here heard the Triolon or this Spharon?

This is purely vile speculation but I bet I would like this Spharon over the Trio G3 with basshorns.

 

[Argonaut]

Why don't we have more discussion about Acappella horn loudspeakers here?

I've heard only the smallest Acappella models at shows. (I like the plasma tweeter, even if it can sound a bit "hot." As long as the tweeter level can be turned down I'm happy with it.)

Has anyone here heard the Triolon or this Spharon?

This is purely vile speculation but I bet I would like this Spharon over the Trio G3 with basshorns.

A mightly looking pair of horn transducers there Ron and I suspect that I might well share your predilection , rather concerned about the requirement for incontinence seating tho !

 

[Don Reid]

Please don't think of me as one who spends time picking fly defecation out ot the black pepper, but these appear to be a hybrid system that includes horns. Horn bass is icing on the cake and can not be duplicated by direct radiator woofers.

 

[marslo]

If not Trios I would probably have Acapellas Apollon.

First time I enjoyed very much Acapellas with plasma tweeter in Munich 2014 with Einstein amps and TT with wooden arm, this system together with Trios/Vitus setup ( and Berning pre if I am not mistaken) impressed me most.
In 2019 in Warsaw I had a talk about Acapellas but finally I decided to get Trios LE 26 .

 

[Gregm]

Has anyone here heard the Triolon or this Spharon?

This is purely vile speculation but I bet I would like this Spharon over the Trio G3 with basshorns.

I listened to the Triolon quite extensively, but it was a while ago (i.e. pre COVID). The presentation is ethereal and remarkably fast -- i.e. the attack & the swings are, subjectively speaking, immediate and this covers most of the FR, i.e. including cellos IIRC. The lower bass is effortless (I mean: the sound is free of the enclosure, it's not as if the speaker is working hard to produce the lower frequencies) but slightly lumpy compared to the rest -- and I admit I am nitpicking. My anecdotal takeaway was that there is sound in the room and there are two constructions as well -- but the two are not necessarily related. The sound seems to exist in the room regardless of the speakers

The room was big (± 40m2) and we listened to, among other things, Mahler of course. The sense of scale was good enough. Amplification used, a pair of KR 211, slightly modified Symphonic Line Kraft 250 stereo, Airforce 1, Leben phono; and the wiring was Nordost.

Having heard the Trio
baseborn in an very early iteration, years ago, I think the scale is much larger with the Av/de. But I don't remember this amazing "airiness" for won't of a better word with the A, i.e. I knew I was listening to a speaker -- an outstanding speaker, no doubt, but a speaker nonetheless. AFAI remember the Triolon X was unmatched in that respect. Regards