ALBEDO - ITALY Acclara
Deliciously Crispy
Sound Quality
95/100
Build Quality
97/100
Value for Money
85/100
The Acclara combines deep, fast bass, natural high-frequency detail and a vastly focused soundstage with remarkable ease. hifitest.de found its warmth, precision and impact free from stress, while Fidelity Magazine praised its emotional scale and forgiving transparency. Its lavish, resonance-resistant transmission-line cabinet anchors a genuinely full-range high-end performance.
Pros
Deep, powerful bass remains fast, controlled and rhythmically precise.
Exceptional resolution and treble naturalness without hardness or listener fatigue.
Large, highly focused imaging lets voices and instruments detach convincingly from the cabinets.
Extremely inert, heavily engineered cabinet construction supports clean, uncoloured performance.
Cons
The low sensitivity and 4-ohm load benefit from powerful, high-quality amplification.
Its very large, roughly 140kg-per-speaker form and luxury pricing demand a dedicated high-end setup.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 95/100
Reviewers describe an unusually complete, high-end presentation: deep and fast bass, warm and lucid musicality, effortless scale, and exceptionally convincing imaging. Its considerable transparency and detail are repeatedly said to remain natural, emotionally engaging, and free of listening stress.
Bass
97/100
The twin transmission-line loading and three-woofer array produce bass that reviewers call notably deep, full, forceful, and fast. Hifitest particularly praises its impact and rhythmic precision, while Fidelity reports an impressive foundation extending to 33Hz.
Mid
93/100
The midrange is characterized as warmly expressive and emotionally involving rather than merely analytical. Fidelity attributes a "golden glow" to the dedicated ceramic midrange driver, while Hifitest found voices naturally placed and convincingly present.
Treble
96/100
High frequencies earn particularly strong praise for their naturalness, resolution, and lack of strain. Hifitest says the speaker balances energetic extension with exemplary freedom from stress, and Fidelity found the diamond tweeter retrieved even the smallest details.
Soundstage Imaging
96/100
Both reviews describe a large, stable, immersive soundstage that makes the cabinets themselves disappear. Instruments and voices are reported as precisely located, clearly isolated in space, and rendered with striking realism.
Dynamics
95/100
The Acclara is praised for explosive starts and stops without sacrificing composure or fullness. Fidelity found that added amplifier headroom brought further dynamic gains, with large orchestral music reproduced with outstanding fluidity and compelling impulses.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
97/100
Construction is exceptionally substantial, with a 140kg-per-speaker mass, 40–50mm multilayer cabinet walls, and heavy metal elements. Hifitest highlights steel side plates tensioned by heavy-duty bolts, describing the resulting enclosure as effectively acoustically dead.
Value for Money
85/100
At roughly €49,500 to €69,000 per pair in the cited reviews, the Acclara is unequivocally a luxury-market speaker. The reviewers emphasize its lavish engineering, finish, and performance, but do not directly compare its value with similarly priced competitors or make a clear value claim.
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Specifications
- System
- > 3-way floorstanding tower
- Loading
- > twin mirrored transmission line filtered by resonators (Helmholine System)
- Drivers
- > 3x 7” Aluminum Sandwich Woofers 1x 5" Ceramic Cell Midrange 1x 1’’ Diamond or Ceramic Tweeter
- Crossover
- > acoustic second order, handmade only with Mundorf components
- Sensitivity
- > 86 dB (2.83V 1m)
- Nominal impedance
- > 4 ohm
- Frequency response
- > 35 - 33.000 Hz
- Dimensions
- > 65,5 x 27,5 x 140,5 cm
- Weight
- > 140 kg net each
Manufacturer's Description — ALBEDO - ITALY
Acclara is the answer to a simple question. How to reach absolute performance in a floor standing design with a cabinet size still suitable for a living room.
The cabinet of Acclara is made out of 40 and 50 mm multilayer wooden sandwich that combines high mass and optimal resonance absorbing behavior. Two solid and heavy metal plates, connected each other by steel threaded bars, model a really stiff cage for largest cabinet sides. Acclara tweeter and midrange are from most expensive and performing line of speaker units from German Accuton brand, the Cell Line.
Bass loading follows the classical Albedo tradition of transmission line design. In this case, two twin but separated Helmholine labyrinths are arranged in order to have a perfect symmetry of bass path for the woofers. Helmholine is an Albedo patented variation of transmission line design that uses internal Helmholtz resonators for acoustic filtering of system bass output. The result is a deep firm bass response, with controlled tonal color.
ACCLARA DIAMOND SGS
The ACCLARA model in DIAMOND version represents a new level of audio performance for a product that we believed was unbeatable.
The 25 mm Tweeter with a hard Diamond inverted dome ensures greater off-axis dispersion along with an unmatchable details levels and very ultra low distortion.
The hardest material in the world at the complete service of high-end audio, only to achieve sonic perfection. It seems like a dream but our ACCLARA DIAMOND SGS is likely to make it come true.
The precision and depth of the soundstage reach an incredible level of realism, where the dynamics and clarity of every sound detail of the original input signal are reproduced with incredible naturalness and smoothness.
"Silver, Gold and Supreme"
"Acclara Diamond SGS" now flaunts a new reference audio level.
The crossover now takes advantage of the indisputable quality of the best Mundorf components, such as "Silver Gold Supreme" capacitors, "Supreme resistors" and "Icore" inductors.
Our aim was to maximize the quality of those components with a crucial role in passing the audio signal and that could otherwise limit the performance of our drivers.
And it is for the same reason that we then decided that it was also necessary to select a new interior wiring of superior quality.
That's why our "Acclara Diamond SGS" can now also benefit from the reliability of Van den Hul's silver-plated cables.
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- Supreme Acoustic Systems — in-store — Las Vegas, Nevada, United States (website)
- Audio Emotion — online and in-store — Glenrothes, Scotland, United Kingdom (website)
- Audio Living Design — in-store — Area Produttiva, Marche, Italy (website)
- Audio Treffbeuss — in-store — Norf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (website)
- AV Solutions - Italy — online and in-store — Aosta, Valle d'Aosta, Italy (website)
- Dr Vinyl — in-store — Middle River, Maryland, United States (website)
- Eilex — in-store — Kokubunji, Tokyo, Japan (website)
- Knopf Hifi Technik — in-store — Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (website)
- Maestro Audio — in-store — Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel (website)
- Opus 51 — in-store — Champigny, Grand Est, France (website)
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