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Arendal 1528 high end speakers

Soundstage has been measuring loudspeakers for YEARS at Canada's NRC anechoic chamber. I'd say they're pros. As far as distortion, you're not going to find many loudspeakers that beat what the Arendal can do at 50 hz. The Revel Ultima Salon 2 has higher distortion comparatively at 95 db. Other than minor breakup in the midrange, these measure insanely good.
Revel Salon 2 is an old design, replaced with 328 that has lower distortion. If you think that this is exemplary design than pls do so. There is some additional bass extension compared to 328, but then we don't know at which distortion/SPL.

I find it funny that my 15 year old "tower" speakers that are quarter of size and weight beat brand new Arendal towers at 50hz distortion test. What is "audible" distortion in this range seems hard to define but I will certainly not take the higher distortion as something we should all accept as that is what we have been served.
 
Revel Salon 2 is an old design, replaced with 328 that has lower distortion. If you think that this is exemplary design than pls do so. There is some additional bass extension compared to 328, but then we don't know at which distortion/SPL.

I find it funny that my 15 year old "tower" speakers that are quarter of size and weight beat brand new Arendal towers at 50hz distortion test. What is "audible" distortion in this range seems hard to define but I will certainly not take the higher distortion as something we should all accept as that is what we have been served.
Why do you keep trolling this page? it's Christmas. Why don't you do the people who actually want to try these based on the good reviews and measurements a favor and post your displeasure somewhere else? I don't get your attempts at dumping on a product you've never heard or have any experience or knowledge of? This is why so many leave ASR. Happy Holidays.
 
“But this line of speakers out of production since 2007 with slightly better measurements can be bought used for 30% less money so long as you don’t mind moderate cosmetic damage” is not a point to dissuade someone from buying any newer set of speakers…
 
Why do you keep trolling this page? it's Christmas. Why don't you do the people who actually want to try these based on the good reviews and measurements a favor and post your displeasure somewhere else? I don't get your attempts at dumping on a product you've never heard or have any experience or knowledge of? This is why so many leave ASR. Happy Holidays.
Sorry, but I don't get it. I am just taking about measurements. I just don't align with your simple view that it is "alright" and don't see that from the graphs. My expectations from LCR might not be same as yours either. I don't see anything really perfect from what is out there and for sure will not be experiencing them despite their generous return policy.

I would say the opposite - trolling is what people do without anything to substantiate. You want me to stop posting my concerns? Be my guest and order the $15K LCR combo and measure the hell out of it. Wish you Merry Christmas as well and hope that you realise what tolling is and how easily you can get into it yourself. And please don't leave ASR because of this. Just acknowledge the facts we have so far about this offering and engage in more meaningful discussion.
 
“But this line of speakers out of production since 2007 with slightly better measurements can be bought used for 30% less money so long as you don’t mind moderate cosmetic damage” is not a point to dissuade someone from buying any newer set of speakers…
And what exactly did you mean? Nothing in this post that I could link to anything above?
 
Sorry, but I don't get it. I am just taking about measurements. I just don't align with your simple view that it is "alright" and don't see that from the graphs. My expectations from LCR might not be same as yours either. I don't see anything really perfect from what is out there and for sure will not be experiencing them despite their generous return policy.

I would say the opposite - trolling is what people do without anything to substantiate. You want me to stop posting my concerns? Be my guest and order the $15K LCR combo and measure the hell out of it. Wish you Merry Christmas as well and hope that you realise what tolling is and how easily you can get into it yourself. And please don't leave ASR because of this. Just acknowledge the facts we have so far about this offering and engage in more meaningful discussion.

This is not the opposite of what you are doing.

You have never seen or heard these speakers, you have zero intention of purchasing them, still you have spent, I don't know, two months dissing both the speakers and the company. To what end?
 
This is not the opposite of what you are doing.

You have never seen or heard these speakers, you have zero intention of purchasing them, still you have spent, I don't know, two months dissing both the speakers and the company. To what end?
This is pretty ill intended post as ultimately incorrect. But regardless will respond although see a patter or the responses that are not well intended so definitely want to counter.

I do have intention to update my LCR but on basis of objective measurements. I do not have any intention to ordering them and returning them back - but that is none of your business. Pls be a hero - order them and measure them in depth for all of us and respond with the best speaker review event done. If you can interpret the measurements thus far, which you probably can, tell me why are these the speakers I should order as I don’t seem to see that?

I do own 4 Arendal subs and that’s probably enough to assure I have nothing against them, or not?

Also, have you heard those speakers- and even if you did what would that do that to the objective contribution to this thread?
 
This is pretty ill intended post as ultimately incorrect. But regardless will respond although see a patter or the responses that are not well intended so definitely want to counter.

I do have intention to update my LCR but on basis of objective measurements. I do not have any intention to ordering them and returning them back - but that is none of your business. Pls be a hero - order them and measure them in depth for all of us and respond with the best speaker review event done. If you can interpret the measurements thus far, which you probably can, tell me why are these the speakers I should order as I don’t seem to see that?

I do own 4 Arendal subs and that’s probably enough to assure I have nothing against them, or not?

Also, have you heard those speakers- and even if you did what would that do that to the objective contribution to this thread?

As I asked in the previous post, to what end? I have no idea what you are doing, but I am surprised you think it is constructive to call a product bad ten times in a row.
 
I honestly don't see what is wrong with these speakers other than we have no vertical directivity.

They stand up there with performance monsters like Perlisten.

Edit: Don Dunn has published his review with more data: https://www.audioholics.com/tower-speaker-reviews/arendal-1528-tower-8

And with those numbers in hand, these speakers look quite worthy, vertical directivity included.
 
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Not everywhere! I have no Perlisten dealers in Switzerland so I have to import it at ~10k euro plus taxes, with no return policy compared to the Arendal. Plus what I've seen so far these are closer to the S7t which are almost 3x the price.
I was quite surprised to see a performance comparable to KEF Reference series.
 
I was quite surprised to see a performance comparable to KEF Reference series.
8" vs 6.5" drivers. I listened to the Kef Reference, not enough bass for the price.
 
I was more concerned with directivity.
What is interesting for me at least, is the horizontal, off-axis directivity they measured is near identical to the on-axis. As their review states, placement is key. I would also think room size is important. You'll need a LARGE listening area for these things to reach full potential. I'm really torn, I do like the look and performance but not sure I'd want this much mass in my living room. Then again, I loved going to my friend's house when I was a teenager and listening to his dad's Altec Lansing A7s in their basement. HUGE horn loaded speakers. They'd play the opening to Top Gun at 100db and I was hooked ever since!
 
What is interesting for me at least, is the horizontal, off-axis directivity they measured is near identical to the on-axis. As their review states, placement is key. I would also think room size is important. You'll need a LARGE listening area for these things to reach full potential. I'm really torn, I do like the look and performance but not sure I'd want this much mass in my living room. Then again, I loved going to my friend's house when I was a teenager and listening to his dad's Altec Lansing A7s in their basement. HUGE horn loaded speakers. They'd play the opening to Top Gun at 100db and I was hooked ever since!
If too massive, you can also go for the monitors.

And yes, I was quite surprised to see they are not that far in radiation from a coaxial design give Don's vertical measuments.
 
Considering that Arendal sold out of their first run of 1528 towers, there should be plenty folks out with them. I would like to hear from those folks that have them. I can't have an opinion on speakers I never heard. Where are the folks that own them?
 
There are plenty of measurements so not sure what more to expect? I do have some of questions for towers and center but that unlikely to be relevant to most.

In short these seem like great speakers based on measurements we have thus far. They should sound great as well.

How they compare to competitors is a different and difficult question.
 
There are plenty of measurements so not sure what more to expect?
Full spinorama. I have not seen any off-horizontal-axis measurements beyond 45 degrees (but I also haven't tried to track down every review).
 
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