General Praise
“The Tower is a large speaker and sounds like one too, namely powerful and confident.”
“You get a lot of material and enjoyment for your money here.”
“With the universal Arendal speaker, audiophiles can be pretty happy.”
“We admit that we are suitably impressed by these speakers.”
Build & Engineering
“The attractively curved baffle… is eight centimeters thick, which is designed to eliminate resonance and coloration.”
“The cabinet is exceptionally solid and stable… dampened with butyl to achieve maximum neutrality and low resonance.”
“The Tower 8 rests on four sturdy, height-adjustable rubber feet… That’s what we call practicality.”
“Everything inside the refrigerator-sized cartons, right down to the screws, feels high-quality and fits together with reassuring firmness.”
Driver & Acoustic Performance
“A quartet of long-throw 20-centimeter woofers with aluminum cones provides substantial foundation.”
“It remains open, spacious, and finely resolved with a vivid soundstage.”
“The particularly low distortion level, even in the bass, is due in no small part to the distributed excursion.”
“The sound does not harden, tighten, or compress at any frequency.”
“Playback is dynamic, clearly articulated, and effortless across the entire frequency range.”
“Delivers an ample performance in our measurements.”
Frequency Response & Dynamics
“Arendal specifies the power handling capacity as over 1 kilowatt and the maximum volume as 118 decibels.”
“Extremely clean, precise, and theoretically correct.”
“High signal purity, transparency, and dynamics.”
“Distortion level is consistently pleasingly low. Someone knows what they are doing here.”
“The Arendal is a good power consumer… delivers a slightly above-average sound pressure level of 87 dB.”
