Product Strengths

• Capable of creating a 'completely credible illusion' of live music, including solo artists, rock bands, or a symphony orchestra
• Listeners can perceive details in recordings, revealing elements that may have been previously unnoticed, such as the pressure and realism of a bass drum
• Thanks to its sensitivity of well over 100 decibels, it manages to trace the played content down to the finest detail, even at moderate volume levels
• Voices are projected with an incredibly natural sound
• The system's design eliminates the need for a separate bass horn acoustically coupling to the room
• Connectivity options

Product Considerations

• Limited listening time made it difficult to assess long-term satisfaction
• The Acapella Spharon is very heavy, with an estimated weight between 650 and 750 kilograms per side
• The system requires a large room (from 40 m²), and one installation occurred in a room that was 19.5 meters long x 13.7 wide and 6.4 high
• It can make any technical gadgetry within a recording instantly audible, potentially revealing unwanted artifacts

Comparisons (according to reviewers)

• Vs Acapella Poseydon: It plays in a more casual manner with almost unlimited dynamics than the Poseydon

Takeaway: The Acapella Spharon Excalibur is a state-of-the-art speaker system that offers a realistic and detailed audio performance. It allows the listener to experience music in a pleasurable way, bringing them closer to the original recording.

Product Strengths

• Three-way system with a quad of 15-inch woofers, the signature hyperspherical horn for the mid/highs and above 5kHz, and the firm's famous ion tweeter
• Large cone surface coupled to a special dual bass reflex system promised abysmal reach down to 16 Hertz
• The cabinets exploit a sandwich construction of Ply, MDF and acrylic plus secret insulators and adhesives

Product Considerations

• At 300kg each, Hyperion is immovable once installed on a sufficiently strong floor
• Requires weeks of lead time until final delivery and on-site setup

Takeaway: The Hyperion seems to create a persuasive live illusion. The speakers scale the music with care to conjure up a most persuasive experience.

Product Strengths

• Massive soundstage with huge amounts of air and space, making the sidewalls of the room disappear
• The dynamic envelope extends significantly with excellent micro dynamics and crescendos capable of rattling walls with a vanishingly low level of distortion
• Phenomenal detail retrieval, particularly low-level ambient detail
• Tighter, better-controlled bass goes lower with more authority and is faster with greater retention of harmonics compared to the Acapella Campanile Highs
• Very clean and excels at creating the well-defined leading edge and decay of struck instruments that characterizes a live performance

Product Considerations

• Resolution is a two-edged sword and tends to magnify problems with other components
• No multi driver system of this complexity, regardless of design, will image like a small two-way monitor
• Associated equipment of a high level is required to make them sing
• Size and cost may not be suitable for everyone

Comparisons (according to reviewers)

• Vs Acapella Campanile Highs: The Triolons are much easier to drive, create a more massive soundstage, and have tighter, better-controlled bass
• Vs Watt/Puppy 6's: The Triolons' midbass is extremely detailed, fast and well-controlled—with excellent slam

Takeaway: The Acapella Triolon Excalibur loudspeaker system offers a realistic and emotionally engaging listening experience with its wide dynamics, tonal accuracy, and clarity. If you want a speaker that can transport you to a live event, this could be it.

Product Strengths

• Detailed, exciting, dynamic, and transparent sound
• Vanishingly low cabinet coloration, contributing to speed and detail
• Lung-emptying, bowel-clearing, demolition-grade bass
• Bass integrates well with the rest of the frequency range for an integrated musical performance
• Voices have breath and contour, yet the result always retains a minimum of warmth

Product Considerations

• Room acoustics should be a strong consideration, as the BC150 reveals room issues
• Needs a lot of quality electronics upstream
• Requires firm control and ample current capacity from the amplifier

Comparisons (according to reviewers)

• The BC150 sounds more like a Burmester B38 with greater abilities to scale

Takeaway: The Burmester BC150 is a high-precision audio instrument that is both musically communicative and musically analytical, offering a detailed and transparent listening experience. It offers clarity and purity of sound, and brings music to another level.

Product Strengths

• The M3 presents music with an unprecedented degree of individuality and specificity, without sacrificing tonality, texture, or body
• Remarkable level of resolution
• Astonishing transparency and is resolute
• Accurate tonality and represents timbre faithfully
• Exceptional high-frequency detail and speed due to a planar tweeter
• Accepts only banana terminations

Product Considerations

• The planar tweeter misses the very last measure of extension, shimmer, and effortlessness accomplished by the very best available today
• Low-frequency extension was limited to the high 20 Hz, low 30 Hz range

Comparisons (according to reviewers)

• Compared to Magico M9, the M3 has recalibrated the resolution yardstick by which all other loudspeakers must be measured and compared
• Compared to Von Schweikert Audio ULTRA 9s, the M3 has recalibrated the resolution yardstick by which all other loudspeakers must be measured and compared

Takeaway: The Børresen M3 loudspeakers boldly represent the realization of striking potential in audio and push known boundaries. People who choose the M3 will enjoy a specific level of playback that is unavailable from other loudspeakers.