New products at High-End Munich
Alumine Five SX & LE

For High End Munich 2024, Stenheim introduced its new Alumine Five platform for the Alumine Five models. This elegant aluminium plinth is machined from solid billet and achieves the same effect as the Reference Platform developed for the Reference series, increasing stability and making fine-tuning the set-up far simpler through increased adjustability of height and rake. These parameters are set via discrete allen bolts on top of the spikes, different sets of which can be selected to suit different floor types. Sound is also improved thanks to the superior vibration damping that the Alumine Five platform offers. The platform can be retrofitted to any Alumine Five

The Alumine Five SX is derived from the award-winning Alumine Five SE, itself a version of the Alumine Five with increased specification including top of the range crossover components, binding posts from the Reference range and enhanced internal wiring. The Alumine Five SX is additionally equipped with a room control panel on the rear, originally seen on the more expensive Reference Ultime Two model, which enables different bass-treble profiles to be selected to adjust for room specifics. Sound quality is yet further enhanced by a new grounding post which allows the speaker to be connected to a grounding system. The Alumine Five SX is immediately recognizable by its anodized tweeter horn and side bars.

This phenomenal speaker is then set upon the Alumine Five plinth to complete the Alumine Five SX package

The Alumine Five LE is a limited edition of the all-new Alumine Five SX, creating the ultimate Alumine Five.  Just 10 pairs are due to be made. Over and above the Five SX’s impressive specifications, the Five LE model boasts some luxury cosmetic appointments. Only available in Full Black, its tweeter horn, side bars, platform details and spike covers are gilded in gold leaf. The top baffle is covered in leather with a gold embroidered Stenheim logo. The rear baffle is adorned with a Stenheim emblem. An optional three-part flight case is available.

Like all Stenheim speakers, the Alumine Five SX and Alumine Five LE are designed and hand-built to order in Switzerland. They are a 3-way design featuring crossovers engineered with the finest quality components from boutique suppliers such as Mundorf and Jantzen and are equipped with highly efficient custom-built drivers (94 dB) enabling a wide variety of amplification to be used. .

The Five SX and Five LE models are a further step in Stenheim’s mission of providing the ultimate in loudspeaker performance for discerning music lovers, and top the Alumine range..

Reference Ultime Two SX

The Reference Ultime Two made an immediate impression when it was released in 2021. This full d’Appolito arrayed 3-way reference speaker displayed its power and speed to convey the full excitement of musical performance. The Reference Ultime Two took the concepts that have become synonymous with everything that Stenheim stands for - full aluminium enclosures, highly efficient and dynamic organic drivers and superbly engineered crossovers made from world-class components - and put them in package that could fill large rooms and do justice to the finest audio systems.

The Reference Ultime Two is now available mounted on the Reference Platform U2 introduced in 2023 as an optional extra, creating the Reference Ultime Two SX.

The aluminium billet platform is constructed in a star shape out of 35kg (77 lbs) of solid aluminium, giving The Reference Ultime Two speakers greatly increased stability through enlarging their footprint considerably whilst at the same time providing optimal damping through its sheer mass. It is additionally designed to make it much easier to switch from the castors that enable the speakers to be positioned, to the spikes that will provide their permanent support. The platform’s spikes also offer a greater range of adjustment: 5cm (2.5 inches) in total than the standard spikes, and this is much easier to achieve by simply turning the hefty, knurled knobs. The result is that the sound can be fine-tuned as the speakers can be tilted from the vertical to provide the optimum angle in complete safety. Finally, different floor types can be catered for, as the Platform ships with three different spike ends for adapting it to thick carpet, hard or delicate floors.

Mating the already sonically impressive Reference Ultime Two to the Reference Platform U2 raises sound reproduction to even greater heights. The Platform extracts every drop of performance from the speakers through the damping and stability it provides as well as the set-up advantages it affords. For loudspeakers, set up is key to enable them to perform to their full potential, with even very small increments of height, rake or toe-in producing easily discernible differences in the sound. The Reference Ultime Two SX now offers more set-up adjustment than ever before through not only the U2 Platform but also the room control fine-tuning rear panel with which every Reference Ultime Two is equipped.

The Reference Ultime Two SX literally builds on everything that has made the Reference Ultime Two such a revered speaker, giving it a purposeful and authoritative outline and raising the listening experience to new summits.