Steve Guttenberg sold Cabasse speakers at Sound by Singer in the 1990s, and the ones he remembers loving were the spheres with coaxial drivers. A coaxial driver puts the tweeter at the center of the midrange cone, so the music comes from one point instead of from two spots several inches apart, and the timing and balance stay matched as you move around the room. A sphere goes further, since it has no cabinet edges for sound to scatter from. Reviewers hear the result in the stereo image. Neil Gader of The Absolute Sound found the Pearl Akoya's imaging "stable and well-focused," and Guttenberg called the Murano "holographic in its imaging," with a center image "so right there." He kept coming back to its tone, which made his solid-state amp sound "kind of tubey" in the best way. Cabasse suits listeners who want a locked-in center image and a full, solid tone.

Cabasse makes passive speakers and speakers with their amplifiers built in. Among the passive models, the Murano bookshelf is a good place to start. Nemo of Nemo Audio Project found placement easy and called it "definitely a subwoofer optional speaker." Its impedance dips fairly low, so Guttenberg advises an amplifier rated into 4 ohms, though a tiny NWM23R sounded really good with it. The Antigua MC170 is the other bookshelf choice. Pursuit Perfect System called it the dark horse of a nine-speaker group test, rated its bass about the best of the group and suggests warm, powerful electronics. Toe-in changes the Antigua a lot. Nemo heard relaxed treble with the speakers aimed straight ahead and a bright, energetic sound with them aimed at his ears. If you would rather skip a separate amplifier, the Pearl Akoya calibrates itself to the room with onboard microphones. Gader called the before and after differences "startling" and re-ran it in each new room.

The Cabasse family made violins in the Vosges mountains of eastern France from 1740. Georges Cabasse, an electrical engineer, carried that music-making into loudspeakers in 1950, when he and Elisabeth Cabasse began repairing and building drive units outside Paris. CinemaScope arrived at the same time, and Cabasse drivers went into Paris cinemas including Le Grand Rex. The company dates its first coaxial drivers to 1952, for a seven-channel CinemaScope theater, and in the 1980s its speakers went into the sound system of La Géode, the domed Omnimax theater in Paris. At home the coaxial idea grew into the Atlantis, its first four-way coaxial speaker, and then La Sphère, which premiered in Las Vegas in 2006. La Sphère is a fully concentric four-way speaker in a globe, and a Cabasse acoustician comes with every delivery to tune its filters to the room. Cabasse says it conceives every product in Brest, Brittany, and when HiFi Pig toured the workshop it found replacement drivers kept in stock back to the 1960s.