Our past encounters with Sigberg Audio products had left us deeply impressed by their engineering expertise as was seen in our reviews of the
SBS.1 active speaker and
10D subwoofer. It wasn’t just their craftsmanship and performance that impressed us but also their adherence to sensible design concepts that doesn’t really resemble anything else on the market despite how rational these approaches are. So when Sigberg Audio announces a new product, it definitely pays to listen for anyone interested in high-fidelity sound. This brings us to Sigberg Audio’s launch of a new floor-standing speaker that is packed to the gills with state-of-the-art loudspeaker design: the Saranna.
READ: Sigberg Audio Saranna Loudspeaker Preview
Nice to see an integrated design. It seems from this speaker and the Albedo that Gene liked do much in Florida, that I have been about 20 years ahead of the game. The speaker I'm referring to was a TL and Gene could not believe there was no sub.
So, it is nice to welcome this new integrated full range active speaker.
I do have one piece of advice. If you are going to design a full range active speaker to fit in with the current AV environment then you need to take into account the subwoofer outputs.
This is for two reasons.
1). You need to be able to reproduce the LFE channel.
2). You need to be able to redirect the bass of other smaller speakers to those full range speakers.
This latter is VERY important and I would say essential.
This can easily be done with a mixer circuit which is not complex.
So in my design the full range right and left speakers have the sub inputs mixed in.