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They will be priced around 3500 euros for a pair. This would be a fixed worldwide price where we do cover all expenses for import worldwide. This is a change from the current model we have now with an inside and outside EU pricing. It's confusing to people with tax/vat and import. So with the new model, we have one price for everyone.
We would make a lot of different tunings and configurations available for the A500 and A700 (floorstanders). These tunings would be downloadable files from our website. You load them in with a USB stick, it's very easy to do. The Cardioid tuning we are testing right now is unbelievable good, so i do think this would be the standard we would launch the speakers with. But nothing is set in stone yet. luckily it's a very flexible system, so we can always just provide new tunings that can completely change the speakers. So you have to see these speakers as being a type of platform as well. We would also provide a ton of tuning features to the customer via an app if you like to dig into it. They do also come with a room correction that is specifically designed to deal with bass issues caused by your room. It only touches sub 250hz and is completely free of the typical drawbacks in terms of sound quality we often hear with room corrections. But this is a topic for another time.
Kaka89. Did you hear them on the same system and room as your Harbeth M30.1? I actually recently had a customer that replaced his M30.1 with the S400 and liked the S400 better, but said that they sounded very much alike actually. But there can be a million reasons to why. I can say that the A500 does sound different from the S400, it's a paper cone woofer in the A500 instead of the alu cone in the S400. So the texture of the midrange especially is different.
As for roon. It's a question for the hub we offer with them. The speakers can be used analog via XLR, or via WISA (wireless). Here you have a lot of other options than the hub we offer. But we are working on Roon ready, so it would be there in future firmware update (this is not 100% sure though).
We would make a lot of different tunings and configurations available for the A500 and A700 (floorstanders). These tunings would be downloadable files from our website. You load them in with a USB stick, it's very easy to do. The Cardioid tuning we are testing right now is unbelievable good, so i do think this would be the standard we would launch the speakers with. But nothing is set in stone yet. luckily it's a very flexible system, so we can always just provide new tunings that can completely change the speakers. So you have to see these speakers as being a type of platform as well. We would also provide a ton of tuning features to the customer via an app if you like to dig into it. They do also come with a room correction that is specifically designed to deal with bass issues caused by your room. It only touches sub 250hz and is completely free of the typical drawbacks in terms of sound quality we often hear with room corrections. But this is a topic for another time.
Kaka89. Did you hear them on the same system and room as your Harbeth M30.1? I actually recently had a customer that replaced his M30.1 with the S400 and liked the S400 better, but said that they sounded very much alike actually. But there can be a million reasons to why. I can say that the A500 does sound different from the S400, it's a paper cone woofer in the A500 instead of the alu cone in the S400. So the texture of the midrange especially is different.
As for roon. It's a question for the hub we offer with them. The speakers can be used analog via XLR, or via WISA (wireless). Here you have a lot of other options than the hub we offer. But we are working on Roon ready, so it would be there in future firmware update (this is not 100% sure though).