Apollo 12

Apollo 12 Loudspeakers are a state-of-the-art four-part system designed to be capable of reproducing music at live performance levels with virtually no restrictions on dynamic range, frequency response, or scale of the soundstage and always with finesse, refinement and ease of listening.

The Apollo 12 system features separate extended-range AMT line array dipole towers with outboard open baffle woofer modules. The extended-range towers can be placed in the perfect location to optimize soundstage and imaging. The bass modules can be placed for optimum extended bass, smooth in-room response, and seamless integration with the towers.

AMT Line Array Dipole Towers

Pristine high frequency reproduction, rich midrange, and dynamic articulate upper-bass reproduction are attained by the use of our proprietary AMT transducer (*Patent Pending) line array. Each of the AMT drivers (twelve per speaker tower) is comprised of precision CNC machined side plates made from the carefully selected steel and coated with a durable finish to protect the driver from corrosion. Custom neodymium magnets weighing just under one pound are used for each driver. The diaphragms are carefully hand pleated to high standards. The Arion Audio AMT drivers are designed and built in-house, in the USA.

Digital Crossover with Advanced Room Correction

Apollo 12 Loudspeakers are designed and engineered to be used specifically with digital crossovers with room correction to provide near perfect system-room integration. DSP with advanced room correction makes excellent in-room response in both the amplitude and time domains at the listening position easy to achieved. Most important, the system achieves a desirably impulse response. The impulse response of a loudspeaker gives you an indication of how well it can handle transients and provide a clean and powerful impact as well as a speaker’s performance in terms of transients and imaging as impulse responses carry localization cues. The advanced DSP system provides hassle free speaker-room integration, user adjustability to personal preferences and presets (29 total in memory) that can be selected on the fly.

Active System with Almost Unlimited Amplifier Choices

Apollo loudspeakers are designed with active digital crossover management which gives us more control of the system’s performance and also eliminates any potential losses found in passive crossover components, which helps maintain efficiency and performance. The active digital system contributes to achieving near perfect system-room integration. Since the Apollos are high sensitivity and can handle a reasonable amount of power your choice of power amplifiers is almost unlimited. The automatic gain matching feature balances the tower output to the woofer module output for seamless integration.

Open Baffle Woofer Modules

Proprietary BFW technology (Balanced Force Woofers – *Patent Pending)

Apollo woofer modules are an Open Baffle (OB) design that integrate perfectly with the extended-range towers. There is no enclosure coloration. Using separate woofer modules allows flexibility with their placement to optimize bass integration into the listening room. Furthermore, the woofer modules are designed to be stackable. The one pair of woofer modules that comes with the system will yield a deep, flat bass response in a medium to large listening room. If the Apollo system is used in a large listening room, multiple pairs can be stacked or placed around the room to minimize room issues.

The twin 10” woofers in each module have rigid flat composite aluminum honeycomb-fiberglass cones maintaining linearity and high impact. The balanced double-roll surround design maximizes stability and control and minimizes distortion. Their dual heavy-gauge aluminum shorting rings (for low inductance) and 6-layer voice coil ensures maximum available force and fast, impactful bass.