Description
Here it comes, the Liionidas Extreme is premium version of Liionidas Open Baffle designed by Leon Huijgen. This set of baffle is handmade, premium version for those who would like to have a complete solution with high-end furniture features. You can select between two versions using different drivers: Platinum-10 which is Lii Song’s current flagship driver, or Silver-10 EVO which is huge upgraded version of previous flagship driver Silver-10.
The Liionidas Extreme keeps all the acoustic design from the original Liionidas OB, but adds improvements in terms of mechanic structure and finish detail. It has a thick and strong metal spine to support the baffles, with firm fixation to hold the whole structure well and stable. The Liionidas Crossover is integrated inside the spine and binding posts pre-set near the speakers, so there won’t be any headache of wiring. The bottom panel is now replaced by a heavy metal one with spikes, so that the OB can stand steady on both flat ground and carpet.
The open baffle is finished by piano factory with thick baked piano lacquer, it has super flat and glossy surface just like pure mirror, and is super hard that you can use cloth to wipe on it without fear of leaving any trace.
Totoro (verified owner) –
Magical beyond all expectation.
Decided to upgrade my speaker system boxed speaker based on ScanDisc revelator which goes up to 40kHz and was considering Open Baffle PAP TRIO 15 CLASSIC with VOXATIVE AC – PiFe https://pureaudioproject.com/classic15-open-baffle-speakers-by-pureaudioproject/ NOTE crossover also designed by Leon Huijgen but it comes to above $12K. IMHO EL looks a bit more refine and the construction is much more solid with solid steel base plate and super strong spine supporting each baffle. It is build like a tank. Na I would not be surprised at all if it blows PAP TRIO 15 CLASSIC with VOXATIVE AC – PiFe out of the water in direct A to B test as the speakers PT 10 and W 15 (special version for PT 10 to match sensitivity) are phenomenal.
Anyway after long discussions with Lii Songs Weiyu ZHANG ended up purchasing Liionidas Extreme Open Baffle Pt-10 version and despite his recommendations TING 1 super twitters as was thinking that will miss the Revlatrors HF extensions and air LOL. Weiyu is a gentlemen and a scholar and was very helpful, supportive and patient with my 1001 queries LOL. Lii Song is a small Co so sometimes it took a bit of time to get a response and at some time the info was 100% accurate but it was all in a good faith though he is very busy and juggling all things at once and could mix things up a bit :-).
After speakers arrived note that they arrived (in two small crates half standard pallet in size but staked on top of each other and aprox 85kg each with each speaker above 60kg. Purchasing wheel set for moving and positioning is highly recommended!!! ) and I fired them up I was for a bit os surprise they were not as advised 88dB but 96+dB LOL. Initially they sounded a bit harsh and fatiguing (problem related to volume mismatch LOL) but with each day they where coming out like cloud was moving out and reviling more and more details of Mt Fuji. I was totally blown away by the magic sound far beyond my expectations and the fact that many records I considered badly recorded now sounded fantastic and old recordings sounded more acceptable and tolerable 🙂
After 35 – 40h the sound is totally different from my first impression which was not bad in the first place LOL.
Note that Lii Song use for various reasons (cost, size as the space inside the spine for integrated crossover is very small) use very basic components in integrated crossover. Non Polar Electrolytic Capacitor in a signal pass for PT 10, industrial resistors in L pad for PT 10 and Iron Core relatively high DCR inductor for W15 the sound quality is really great. My plan is to build an external crossover using film cap bank with bypass copper foil cap and low DCR Toroidal Air core inductor, Cardas US high gage wires (LiiSong users 16AWG Japanese Professional Audio wires internally) and binding posts to do the justice to PT 10 and naval its full potential.
By no means the speakers are perfect and in fact the screws and spikes were badly rusted (but Lii Song promised to improve) some brackets were not fully painted and some finish could have being done a bit more accurate. BUT it is all nothing to incredible value for your hard earned $$$$ and SQ emanating form EL.
Specifications as far as I get it
Sensitivity 96+ dB
Default impedance 8Ohm with W15 both coils connected
weight 60 kg each
If you have a high current, high slew rate and Damping factor AMP 25 W per channel is more than enough.
Enjoy