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Designer and manufacture of Arion Apollo speakers.

Hey asvjerry, I applaud your enthusiasm for AMT drivers.

The Apollos are dipoles. The $30K includes two towers, two woofer modules, woofer amplification and a Trinnov ST2 processor. We build our own AMT drivers in house. We do need to make a few dollars to keep the lights on :-)

The Apollo all AMT towers are high passed at 120Hz and can be driven by 2 watt SET amps or any other amps to very high SPLs. Don't try that with a stack of ESS Heil divers, or any other AMT for that matter. They are very good drivers though.

Please stop by in your most comfortable form. No blond or fancy car required. We are proud of our accomplishments and like to share, whether you are a buyer or not.

Mike

Designer and manufacture of Arion Apollo speakers.

Thanks Eric. I do get the impression that Audiogon can be unfriendly to manufacturers so I usually stay away even though we pay quite a bit to advertise on this site.

We always welcome visitors for a listen, buyers or not, no pressure here. We like to share. How often do you come across a tall open baffle true line array speaker that can play clearly to high SPLs with 1.5 watt SET tube amps?

danager, Sorry, no. The only place, at this point, to hear them is at our showroom in Charlotte, NC.

Mike

Don't be sad. We plan on exhibiting at a west coast show soon.

Mike

Designer and manufacture of Arion Apollo (AMT) speakers.

JD,

We will be exhibiting at the Pacific Audio Fest show this year in late July. We also plan on being at the Capital Audio Fest show this year. We will likely show Apollo 9 speakers at the PAF show. Is there a show in the Midwest?

One of our design criteria is high efficiency. We feel it is worth the extra effort to build speakers that can be enjoyed by both low power SET tube amp enthusiasts (2 watts) and medium power SS amps enthusiasts (200 watts) and everything in-between. Apollos speakers let the amp's virtues (or deficiencies) shine through. Personally, I use 45 tube amps (1.5 watts) driving Apollo 12s. At last year's CAF show we used ARC Ref 160M amps (140 watts). Other uses class-D amps, another uses 300B amps.

Good AMTs work well with both SS amps and tube amps. SQ issues are more likely about poor implementation or sub-par equipment.