just the music

The Cassia are designed exclusively to reveal the inner most detail of your favorite recordings. To bring forth the very essence of artist voices, rendering them tangible, believable, and imprinted in the space right before you.

The requirements are dauting, as they must be a sensitive, easy to drive loudspeaker but at the same time have a full range sound: two typically orthogonal directions. Furthermore, full range raises problems: how do you ensure a correct bass reproduction on an demanding room? How do you balance everything in a real space?

This is the reason the Cassia look the way they look: they are pure dipoles (no box), they control and match directivity (every part works in unison in every direction) and they have adjustable correction for the low frequencies (so they can adapt to any room). At the same time, they act like traditional loudspeakers: all the complexity is neatly hidden away. The balance between innovation and tradition allows the Cassia to seamlessly integrate into your existing setup.

The drivers employ incredibly low tolerance voice coil construction, innovative materials and FEA optimized structures. Made in Europe, these are state of the art transducers. Integration between the 8” mid coupler driver and the horned AMT driver is done by a phase aligned, low order crossover, where each component was selected and matched, resulting in extremely accurate, relentlessly articulate and musical tonal reproduction. By effect of the controlled directivity the soundstage is natural sized and deep, with imaging almost at startling levels. The two 15” drivers, active bellow 150 Hz, enable the lowest octaves to come out in any room, with maximum dynamics and sublime effortless natural texture.
Preserving the characteristics of your system, the signal delivered to the Cassia is corrected and reamplified by a transparent and overbuilt internal amplifier, only for the lowest of frequencies. There is only one input: the speaker cables you always used. Your amplifiers are still driving the bass, imprinting their tonal character, with signal, not power. The benefits are immense: the Cassia account for your room to deliver the desired response while your amplifier is free from driving the power hungry bass region, leaving even more headroom available for the mids and highs. You can effectively drive the Cassia to realistic levels with a 5W SET amplifier, across the full frequency range, preserving your preferred presentation, while simultaneously elevating it to unexplored levels. You can dial different bass preferences for different sources in your system, or to achieve bass presence for those late night, low level listening sessions. Most room deficiencies can be addressed by the powerful correction, accounting for resonances, asymmetries in your space and your personal taste. The external crossover box isolates the sensitive components from unwanted vibrations, elevating the presentation.
The baffles can be finished in any way, from natural hand oiled Birch or any number of our responsibly sourced 50 varieties of exotic veneers to any RAAL color in glossy, matte or metallic paints. The massive solid hand brushed aluminum pieces are hand waxed to preserve their original finish.
Each Cassia system is built by hand to order, with lead times starting at 3 months for traditional options. The system is all inclusive: loudspeakers, external crossover box, power and signal cables, together with installation and setup services.