German-based Avantgarde Acoustics has been engineering and manufacturing spherical horn speaker systems since 1991.
The Avantgarde mission, "Purity meets Performance", accurately reflects their achievement: speakers that provide a listening experience that remains true to the original music through engineering developments that push new limits of technology.
Avantgarde boasts its honor of contradicitons: their history is a story of both the" experiment for the scientist" and the "intentional restraint of the minimalist."
Nowhere is this mission more achieved than in their Zero 1 Pro loudspeaker system. At Blue Smoke, we are proud to display this unique and ground breaking speaker.
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In a review of the Zero 1 loudspeakers, Jonathan Valin (Absolute Sound, September, 2014) claims that the speaker system "is far and away the most ingenious and sonically successful compact horn loudspeaker I've ever heard (and in many ways one of the freshest, most brilliantly engineered, and strikingly styled loudspeakers of any kind I've come across in years.") In that review, he highlights some of the unique and impressive features of the Zero 1:
The ZERO 1 is a 3-way active amplified loudspeaker system that provides a "plug and play" solution for your digital input. It boasts spherical-horn-loaded tweeter, spherical-horn-loaded midrange and a direct-radiating cone tweeter.
Schedule an appointment to hear this revolutionary system sourced by the Blue Smoke Entertainment System Black Box II™ and 384/32 Digital Output™ combination over AES/EBU.