ALTA AUDIO TITANIUM HESTIA II NEW THREE-WAY FLOOR STANDING SPEAKER LAUNCHED

Building on Alta Audio’s original Reference Floorstanding tower speaker, the new three-way floor standing Alta Audio Titanium Hestia II features new titanium former for enhanced dynamics.

American loudspeaker brand Alta Audio has announced the imminent arrival of the new Alta Audio Reference Titanium Hestia II, which they say is a significant step up from the original model.

Alta Audio Titanium Hestia II

D’APPOLITO CONFIGURATION

The Titanium Hestia II is, like its namesake, a three-way tower speaker with drivers arranged in an open-back D’Appolito configuration, in which midrange drivers are placed above and below the tweeter.

ALTA AUDIO TITANIUM HESTIA II

Alta Audio’s Founder, CEO, and Product Designer, Michael Levy, has improved upon the original Hestia by updating the crossover with a design like that of the Adam floorstanding speaker, which was introduced earlier this year. The updated design features new 7” midrange drivers, updates to the amorphous core transformer in the tweeter, new silver-coated deoxygenated copper multi-strand variable diameter Teflon insulated internal cabling, and updated crossover components including silver foil capacitors.

Alta Audio Titanium Hestia II grille off

MIDRANGE

The output of the two lower midranges matches the output of the single 6” midrange above the tweeter, thus creating a unified pulse. In the woofer crossover passband, the two 7” lower midrange drivers produce the extended lower midrange and bass response needed to blend with the XTL Bass (patent pending) woofer.

TITANIUM FORMER

Alta Audio surrounds the voice coils in a newly developed titanium former that offers lower mass, greater stiffness, and smoother response than traditional aluminium designs, resulting in a lack of magnetic flux.

XTL TRANSMISSION LINE

By adding these new elements in a newly retuned crossover based on the concepts incorporated in the company’s recently introduced Adam speakers, Mr Levy says he has smoothed out the impedance, making the speaker less sensitive to amplifiers while increasing the phase linearity of the design. In addition, the bass response has better control and is deeper and more dynamic than the original Titanium Hestia as with updated tuning thanks to the latest version of Alta Audio’s lossless XTL transmission line technology.

Alta Audio Titanium Hestia II tweeter/midrange detail

ALTA AUDIO TITANIUM HESTIA II RIBBON TWEETER

Available in Alta Audio’s super high-gloss black onyx finish with other colours available on special order, the Titanium Hestia II features the best of Alta Audio’s proprietary audio technologies. Alta Audio’s amorphous core transformer, used in the high output 70 MM ribbon tweeter is responsible for the high-frequency response. Likewise, the 6” cone titanium former upper midrange and two titanium former 7” lower midranges provide low distortion and fast transient response.

WOOFER

Rounding out the driver complement is a 10” woofer whose tuning parameters are coupled to the unique cabinet design.

Alta Audio Titanium Hestia II with grille

ALTA AUDIO TITANIUM HESTIA II SPECS

The Titanium Hestia II stands 53.75”H x 15” W at the bottom x 8 1/2” W at the top x 18” D at the bottom, it has a frequency response of 28Hz to 47kHz, sensitivity rated at 90 dB / 2.83 Volts @ 1 Meter, and an impedance of 4 ohms. Recommended power handling is 50 – 400 watts per channel, bi-wired or bi-amped.

ALTA AUDIO TITANIUM HESTIA II PRICE

SRP: $37,500 in piano black; additional finishes available on request.

HiFi Pig Says: A very attractive-looking speaker, would love to hear them…we do like a ribbon tweeter!