Heavy metal machine

AVID’s ‘sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut’ two-way features a massive all-alloy cabinet with tuned mass dampers to kill unwanted resonances – and this is the smallest in its range!

DETAILS

PRODUCT AVID Hifi Reference Four

ORIGIN UK

TYPE 2-way standmount loudspeaker

WEIGHT 25kg (40kg with stands)

DIMENSIONS (WxHxD) 210 x 367 x 440mm

FEATURES

28mm Acuflexcoated silk dome

160mm damped polymer composite mid/bass driver

Quoted sensitivity: 88dB/1W/1m (6.5ohm)

DISTRIBUTOR AVID HifiLtd.

WEBSITE avidhifi.co.uk

Unloading the three AVID Hifiboxes that these standmounts arrive in – one for each Reference Four speaker, at £20,000 a pair, plus one for the included (and very hefty) stands – you’d be forgiven for jumping to the obvious conclusion that what you’re dealing with here is intended for playing heavy metal. And as fate would have it, you wouldn’t be that far off the truth for, while most speakers do very nicely enough thank you very much with variations on the wooden box theme, the Reference Fours opt for all-alloy cabinets, with panels up to 15mmthick, sitting on six ‘risers’ attached to a thick alloy baseplate. Hence why each of these relatively compact speakers, at just under 370mm tall, weighs a decidedly hefty 25kg.