NEW: Ken Micallef of Stereophile wrote (June 2024):
"...every loudspeaker I've reviewed for Stereophile has had strengths and weaknesses, though a few were so good—and affordable enough—that I bought them. I would buy the Voxativ Ampeggio if I could. What else is there to say? If tonal purity, textural beauty, instrumental layering, a deep soundstage, and nearly live dynamics is your thing, the Voxativ Ampeggio may be your speaker—maybe the last one you ever buy. I wish it were mine..."
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Winner of Product of the Year 2011 Award (Stereophile December 2011)
"...clearly, the Voxativ Ampeggio fuels our passion for music. And with that in mind, it really should come as no suprise that this strange new speaker is our Product of the Year 2011. In its design, appearance, and sound, the Voxativ Ampeggio is bold, beautiful, distinct, and fun - a product to admire, love, and honor. Congratulations Voxativ - and thanks!"
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Art Dudley of Stereophile wrote (August 2011):
"...the Voxativ Ampeggios showed the same considerable transient speed, spatial presence, dramatic ease, and physical impact as the best Lowther applications I've heard - and lacked the English speakers' most egregious flaws."
"Low frequency tones, from just below 40Hz and up, had real power, color, and physicality via the Voxativs... Midrange sounds were open, clear, and stunningly present: the kind of playback performance that makes use of the word transparent not only forgivable but almost mandatory. The trebles were similarly clear... and, perhaps most important of all, there was no upper-mid response peak. No shout. No glare. No shit!"
"...the Voxativ Ampeggio went beyond sounding good: More than once, with too many records to mention, I found myself stopping to marvel at its brilliantly good pitch certainty... I was able to enjoy everything I played through them - not just as sound but as music - without fatigue, frustration, or, worst of all, lack of interest."
"...the sort of spatial presentation that some audio perfectionists cherish: a deep and sizable chunk of pure, open sound, mined from the original quarry and transported to the listener's room, "air" and all: The Voxativs, more than any other flea-wart-friendly speakers with which I'm familiar, did the soundstaging thing. In spades."
More than just a Lowther without a shout, this is a Lowther with a foundation, a Lowther with real bass - a high efficiency, single-driver loudspeaker for which no excuses need be made. Just a few years after giving up on the idea, I've now encountered a single-driver dynamic speaker I could live with; in most audio reviews that's faint praise, but in this one it's a revelation. In the months ahead, I'm certain the Voxativ Ampeggio will change many more minds..." check out the entire review
Srajan Ebaen of 6moons.com wrote (September 2010):
"...Ines Adler's Ampeggio appears to be a milestone in modern widebanders... it's presently one of the most compelling samples of the breed and surely the best I've encountered by not a small margin. The Ampeggio also is a musical instrument not merely on looks or because of who makes it. It's a musical instrument in how its superior time domain performance establishes proper harmonic fidelity in ways that read abstract or poetic but in the listening seat communicate themselves without any mouthfuls of fancy words."
"Be assured though that the Voxativ Ampeggio goes places no Lowther I've ever heard has before... In my book then, this is a breakthrough."
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