AV123 X-Statik Open Baffle Loudspeakers

March 4, 2008 by Lukas Gilkey
Filed under: Home Audio > Speakers > Floorstanding Speakers



AV123 has formally announced that their new X-Statik Open Baffle Loudspeakers are now for sale on their website. We snapped some pictures of the X-Statiks at the 2007 Rocky Mountain Audiofest and they were very impressive. The speakers were co-designed by Mark Schifter (AV123) and Danny Ritchie (GR Research), and feature a pair of custom built Peerless India 6.5" curvilinear treated paper cones along with an all new Peerless India fabric dome tweeter in an open baffle configuration. The low-end is provided by another pair of custom Peerless India 6.5" woofers in a sealed enclosure. Frequency response is 65-20Khz (+/-3dB) and the speakers have an impedance of 8 ohms nominal with an efficiency rating of 90.5dB.

The X-Statik Open Baffle Loudspeakers start at $699 per pair and are currently available at the AV123 online store in a variety of hand finished custom cabinets.

Source: AV123
Comments (4)
Dave Kay 2 years and 2 weeks ago

They are very reminiscent of my Mirage OM-6s, just with the upper section as an open baffle dipolar arrangement as opposed to the Mirage's shallow mounted front/rear driver bipolar arrangement. I wonder how they would compare sonically.
lukas 2 years and 2 weeks ago

I really liked these at the RMAF show. I tried to talk Mark Schifter into keeping the exposed crossovers (see the RMAF pics link above) on the production models because they looked cool in their little plexiglass cases.
filtor1 2 years and 2 weeks ago

Beautiful. I am still looking forward to my first OB demo.
mziegler 3 days and 6 hours ago

You would think there would be mention that the President and CEO, Mark Schifter, was arrested for five counts of fraud.

AV123 has one of the worst reputations in the audio world right now. I expect them to be out of business soon.
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