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new light on sound

Loudspeakers continue to be the weakest link in today's high-end sound systems, underperforming current state-of-the-art electronics by significant margins due to their complex electromechanical nature.

Lumen White precision monitors are cost-no-object developments aimed at closing this performance gap and advancing the state of the art in dynamic transducer design towards a more realistic reproduction of the original musical event.

Since their introduction in 1999, our loudspeakers have stirred up the audio industry by delivering instantly obvious, magnitudinally superior performance, earning them an unprecedented string of superlative reviews, expert endorsements, and prestigious industry awards around the globe.

Holding ultimate reference nominations for nearly a decade now, they provide our clients not only with unsurpassed performance and timeless decor but also superior ownership value.

pure silence - magic sound

Lumen White speakers merge musical instrument design, artisan craftsmanship, and edge-of-the-art technologies. They offer superlative low noise and ambient retrieval, signal transient speed and resolution, ultra-wide bandwidth with vanishing passband ripple, and outstanding spectral purity, octave-to-octave energy equilibrium, and freedom from compression and energy storage effects.

Engineered to be time, phase, and resonance coherent, they reveal music's complete natural gestalt, from its most subtle details to the most complex crescendos, against a background of magically pure silence.

Unprecedented precision and freedom from parasitic resonances and masking effects make our loudspeakers vanish completely behind the music, connecting the listener closer to the original event than ever before.

musical truth - sonic beauty

Lumen White speakers are designed to complement high-quality front-end equipment, being fully transparent to the upstream chain.

Adequately driven, their truthful nature portrays music with such naturalness, depth, purity, and ease that renowned reviewers have lauded them as "one of the best audio components of all time" and "most probably impossible to improve upon or surpass."

master instruments for music

Lumen White loudspeakers incorporate century-old arts of master musical instrument design and construction with edge-of-the-art acoustical research and technologies, resulting in superlative sonic realism and purity.

On the basis of proprietary psychoacoustical research, we develop visionary drivers, cabinets, and custom components featuring some of the world's most advanced materials, technologies, and designs.

These costly and difficult-to-produce components stand at the very edge of the art when compared to the best transducers of all time, from the fabled legends of the past to the present.

instrument grade cabinets

The superlative performance of our driver arrays is complemented by highly advanced cabinet acoustics.

As traditional damping technologies cause a clearly audible loss of musical information, we have developed new signal-preserving alternatives. The same applies to the majority of fiber boards, industrial composites, and bonding technologies which dominate today's speaker manufacturing, even at the high end. Acting as absorbers, they cause transient time smear and a loss of musical information or feature a psychoacoustically unbenign spectral signature, leading to perceptual stress, listening fatigue, and ownership dismay.

cost-no-object materials and construction

Our cabinets are instrument-grade, cost-no-object constructions made from proprietary formula plywoods and solids of several centimeters strength based on comprehensive research into the spectral signatures, resonance properties, and energy storage effects of multiple woods, metals, composites, bonding technologies, and geometries.

Their naturally curved shapes follow function, fusing century-old instrument building expertise with cutting-edge airflow, pressure- and wave propagation research. Their design allows for a dramatic reduction of parasitic resonances and detrimental pressure effects supporting outstanding driver precision, rise- and settling times, and resonance patterns which are both minimal, natural, and coherent rendering them psychoacoustically "inaudible."

This freedom from conventional euphonic masking effects makes way for a profound new dimension of wholeness and realism in the musical presentation itself.

minimalist crossover design

lumen white loudspeakers employ highly minimalist phase- and time-domain optimized crossovers engineered for maximum spectral and time-domain integrity of the signal. their design takes into account widely ignored energy storage field cross- coupling and resonance interference effects in circuits components and layout.

art science and beauty

Development and production of Lumen White audio products originate from a dedicated love of music and follow the traditions of the master musical instrument makers of yore.

Combining avant-garde acoustic research with state-of-the-art materials technologies, they excel in liberating music from the boundaries of technology and let its true beauty shine.

designed in switzerland
by lumen white reseach
manufactured in the eu