1528 Bookshelf 8 | Arendal Sound

1528 Bookshelf 8

The 1528 Bookshelf 8 offers high-end audio with extreme accuracy. With custom made drivers for crystal-clear highs, detailed mids, and deep bass, it ensures smooth sound from any angle. Its modern look and adjustable settings make it ideal for smaller spaces. Enjoy full-range sound without needing a subwoofer.

Tech Specs | 1528 Series

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Audio excellence

Elegance meets High-End audio for the ultimate compact listening experience

1528 Bookshelf 8 has a 3-way speaker design that delivers incredible performance with its 28mm lithium-magnesium tweeter, 5″ carbon-graphene midrange, and 8″ aluminum bass drivers, ensuring detailed highs, rich mids, and impressively powerful, deep, dynamic bass. The acoustically time-aligned driver baffle and controlled directivity waveguide create a wide listening window for smooth, immersive sound.
Designed for critical Hi-Fi listening.

“Arendal Bookshelf 8 is one of those speakers that makes it fun… and will certainly make you spend more time in front of your stereo.”

Håvard Holmedal – Stereo+

Like a live concert

in your living room

The 1528 Series makes this possible with its unique 3-way design, custom Carbon-Graphene midrange driver, lithium-magnesium tweeter, alongside other extraordinary features we designed with the discerning listener in mind.

Tweeter & waveguide

Sound as it’s meant to be heard.

At the heart every speaker in the 1528 Series, is a sophisticated 3-way design featuring a custom premium 28mm Lithium-Magnesium tweeter, offering unparalleled detail and dynamics. Housed within a controlled directivity waveguide, it ensures that high frequencies are stunningly clear and detailed and precisely directed for optimal sound dispersion across your listening space. The result is an expansive soundstage that immerses you fully in your favorite music and soundtracks.

Midrange 

Lifelike clarity and seamless sound. 

The over specified custom 5″ Carbon-Graphene midrange driver combines incredibly light and stiff materials to provide exceptional accuracy and dynamics, while reducing distortion to the bare minimum. It delivers rich, natural sound that seamlessly blends with crisp highs from the tweeter, making notes, dialogue, and musical detail come alive with incredible realism. A perfect partner for the tweeter-waveguide combination.

Woofer 

Feel the power of deep, lifelike, dynamic bass. 

Our new, custom-designed 8″ aluminum long-throw bass drivers have inverted surrounds for a sleek, integrated design and housed in a prism structure for added stiffness. Everything comes together in a robust, acoustically optimized HDF cabinet, resulting in a dynamic performance with deep, impactful bass that you feel as much as you hear.

Perfect Timing, Flawless Reproduction

Experience every note with precise, in-phase sound

Our innovative, precision-engineered, and acoustically time-aligned driver baffle ensures every note is delivered with pinpoint precision, creating a coherent and dynamic listening experience that is always in step with the listener. This functional yet innovative design effectively solves the inherent challenge of aligning multiple drivers. By curving the baffle, we achieve a mechanically clean solution that avoids adding unnecessary complexity to the crossover, preserving the purity and integrity of the sound. 

“The curved front baffle of the 1528 series isn’t just for looks—it plays a crucial role in achieving an incredibly lifelike and engaging performance.”

Thomas Gunvaldsen, Arendal Sound CTO

Personalize Your Sound

Perfect your listening experience

The 1528 Series offers both ported and sealed modes, allowing you to customize the bass response depending on your individual room acoustics and personal preference. Choose an open port for maximum output and the lowest bass extension when the speaker is free standing. Or go sealed for a tighter, faster bass response when the speaker is close to a wall or corner. 

“The speakers are surprisingly not brash or aggressive… they are surprisingly homogeneous and well-balanced.”

Håvard Holmedal – Stereo+

Where Elegance Meets Durability.

Precision engineered for your home. Built to last.

1528 Series are serious statement pieces. A hardwearing, satin paint finish — with metal flake detail in the Basalt version, and pearl in Polar — adds a touch of elegance, and solid multi-layered HDF cabinet construction minimizes resonances for pure, uncolored sound. The time-consuming care and attention to detail we put into the development of 1528 series reflect the pride and integrity we take in every Arendal product.

“Purpose-built to sound like a Tower speaker, but in the frame of a bookshelf speaker. An exceptionally dynamic and engaging speaker.”

Thomas Gunvaldsen, Arendal Sound CTO

The new definition of excellence

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  • Personalize Your Sound

    Perfect your listening experience

    Personalize Your Sound

    Perfect your listening experience

    The 1528 Series offers both ported and sealed modes, allowing you to customize the bass response depending on your individual room acoustics and personal preference. Choose an open port for maximum output and the lowest bass extension when the speaker is free standing. Or go sealed for a tighter, faster bass response when the speaker is close to a wall or corner.

  • Perfect Timing, Flawless Reproduction

    Experience every note with precise, in-phase sound

    Perfect Timing, Flawless Reproduction

    Experience every note with precise, in-phase sound

    Our innovative, precision-engineered, and acoustically time-aligned driver baffle ensures every note is delivered with pinpoint precision, creating a coherent and dynamic listening experience that is always in step with the listener. This functional yet innovative design effectively solves the inherent challenge of aligning multiple drivers. By curving the baffle, we achieve a mechanically clean solution that avoids adding unnecessary complexity to the crossover, preserving the purity and integrity of the sound. 

  • Where Elegance Meets Durability.

    Precision engineered for your home. Built to last.

    Where Elegance Meets Durability.

    Precision engineered for your home. Built to last.

    1528 Series are serious statement pieces. A hardwearing, satin paint finish — with metal flake detail in the Basalt version, and pearl in Polar — adds a touch of elegance, and solid multi-layered HDF cabinet construction minimizes resonances for pure, uncolored sound. The time-consuming care and attention to detail we put into the development of 1528 series reflect the pride and integrity we take in every Arendal product.

  • Precise Connectivity

    Precision Bi-Wire terminals for perfect signal transfer and superior sound.

    Precise Connectivity

    Precision Bi-Wire terminals for perfect signal transfer and superior sound.

    1528 Series speakers feature custom-designed, rhodium-plated copper bi-wire binding posts, offering both flexibility of connection and distortion-free performance. These binding posts ensure superior conductivity and durability, delivering clear, high-fidelity audio signals. Designed for audiophiles who appreciate uncompromised quality.

“The Arendal Bookshelf 8 does a lot right, to the point that it stands as a good alternative to far more expensive speakers.”

Håvard Holmedal – Stereo+

dimensions and tech specs

Design

3-way

Dimensions (H/W/D)

55.5 x 29.0 x 36.8 cm
(21.9 x 11.4 x 14.5 in)

Weight

30kg
(66 lbs)

Enclosure

Sealed/Ported

Enclosure material

High Density Fiberboard (HDF)

Ports

71.5mm inner diameter

Break-in for optimal performance

50 hours

Recommended amplifier

Up to 500W

Included

Port Plug, Grille

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Tweeter

28 mm

Midrange

5”

Woofer

8”

Frequency response
42Hz-20kHz +-2dB
F3 37Hz
F6 28Hz
F10 19Hz
Impedance

4-ohms nominal

Crossover frequency

420Hz / 2800Hz

Sensitivity

84dB / 2.83V / 1m

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Frequency

Frequency response does not reflect maximum output but shows its true response in a anechoic chamber. Typically you will see an elevated response in the bass response below 40Hz in room due to room gain, which can add around 6dB pr. octave under 40Hz depending on the size of your room.

“Whatever you imagined or expected for the new 1528 Series, it exceeds them all by 10x in both build and sound quality”

Jay Lee – Jay’s Iyagi

This speaker is for you if

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High-end sound in stand mount form factor

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You have a smaller room and you are limited in placement options

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You want true-full range sound without a subwoofer

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