Going for gold – It's Børresen new M8 Gold flagship speaker, a triple-segmented tower with d'Appolito style 5" two-way centre around the brand's 94dB efficient planarmagnetic thin-foil tweeter whilst six packs of 8" woofers in passive RiPol configuration bracket that centre section above and below. 12 x 8-inch woofers per channel sum to more than 3 x 15" woofers yet exhibit far higher motor-to-cone force and 'super'-dipole dispersion for much reduced room interaction. The neodymium-powered drivers combine carbon skins around an aramid core surface-treated with zirconium, titanium, hafnium and their nitrides. The baskets are milled from solid blocks of austenitic stainless steel coated with the same surface treatment then cryogenically treated. The crossover operates in the current not voltage domain. Bi-amping is strongly encouraged. So are strong floors when these weigh 325kg. Follow the embedded link for all the tech details. Tailor-made companions to drive the M8 Gold are the new Aavik M-880 class A mono amplifiers delivering 400W/8Ω, 1.3kW into 2Ω and a damping factor of 1'000. With the M6 model listed at a cool half a million the pair, does the M8 being 'two more' double to €1'000'000/pr? The press release didn't say but given the exuberance of woofers the M8 installs, shouldn't we expect a downscaled model with 8 woofers per side and then another one with 4 as time goes on and this speaker concept presses downward?
