AV123 X-Statik Open Baffle Loudspeakers

March 4, 2008 by Lukas Gilkey
Filed under: Home Audio > Speakers > Floorstanding Speakers



AV123 has formally announced that their new X-Statik Open Baffle Loudspeakers are now for sale on their website. We snapped some pictures of the X-Statiks at the 2007 Rocky Mountain Audiofest and they were very impressive. The speakers were co-designed by Mark Schifter (AV123) and Danny Ritchie (GR Research), and feature a pair of custom built Peerless India 6.5" curvilinear treated paper cones along with an all new Peerless India fabric dome tweeter in an open baffle configuration. The low-end is provided by another pair of custom Peerless India 6.5" woofers in a sealed enclosure. Frequency response is 65-20Khz (+/-3dB) and the speakers have an impedance of 8 ohms nominal with an efficiency rating of 90.5dB.

The X-Statik Open Baffle Loudspeakers start at $699 per pair and are currently available at the AV123 online store in a variety of hand finished custom cabinets.

Source: AV123
Comments (3)
Dave Kay 5 months and 6 days ago

They are very reminiscent of my Mirage OM-6s, just with the upper section as an open baffle dipolar arrangement as opposed to the Mirage's shallow mounted front/rear driver bipolar arrangement. I wonder how they would compare sonically.
lukas 5 months and 6 days ago

I really liked these at the RMAF show. I tried to talk Mark Schifter into keeping the exposed crossovers (see the RMAF pics link above) on the production models because they looked cool in their little plexiglass cases.
filtor1 5 months and 5 days ago

Beautiful. I am still looking forward to my first OB demo.
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