We haven't built a whole bunch of Arcus', but have had much interest. They're a very unique speaker, and honestly I think out of our entire lineup they're the most fun of them all! They combine characteristics you don't often see in one package:
- High sensitivity
- High resolution and detail retrieval
- Large sweet spot and room friendly
- Incredible dynamics and power handling
- Great weight and sense of scale
- Room filling soundstage with complete transparency
- Equally good at 2ch and HT use
- And can do any music well
... and all in a relatively compact package.
Many speakers can do some of those things, and some of the speakers in our lineup do some of them better. But this is one of the few or only speakers in the World that can do them all. And it's only possible through uncompromised build quality, driver and crossover quality, and months of voicing. I think this was the most difficult to voice speaker we've built, but once don't it's completely locked in!
In my house, having all our speakers to choose from, if I had to pick one for a 2-channel room where I know I'm going to also entertain and want to flat-out rock sometimes, the Arcus would be it.
On to the pic, headed for a lucky customer in PA
