Acapella Audio Arts

In 1961 while a student at architecture school, Alfred Rudolph made and designed 4-way speakers with an appealing sound. But after many sessions listening to the sound of trumpets, he became fascinated by the wide and vivid sound of them; this is when the idea of creating a modern trumpet came to the mind of Rudolph. In 1976, Alfred Rudolph and Hermann Winters met, both immediately felt the same fascination with the idea of the trumpet. Two years later, Acapella Audio Arts officially launched.

Technologies

The Ion-Plasma Tweeter

The Ion-Plasma Tweeter is designed to recreate the most accurate, fastest and most sophisticated sound compared to the existing speakers in the world. When operating, the ion-beam fires plasma into oxygen in the air which can produce reactive by-products, Acapella is the only speaker company that eliminates this problem and is certified for health safety by the European Union (EU). In this way, the Acapella ion tweeter is able to reproduce sound without membrane and without mass. In terms of transient capabilities and phase stiffness, the obtained sound quality cannot be realised by using conventional tweeters. With virtually zero mass, the ion tweeter can reproduce frequencies as high as 100 kHz, though in this case, it's limited to 30 kHz.

The Spherical Horn

Though the senior firm of the two, Acapella is actually not nearly as internationally famous as their colleagues at Avantgarde Acoustic. Both German companies are in the hornspeaker business but Acapella, as the older one, claims credit for being the spherical horn inventors (they began in 1978). The Avantgardists under the lead of Matthias Ruff meanwhile produce strikingly similar horns.

Products

Acapella Campanile MKII

Specifications:

Efficiency: 93 dB/1W/1m