Now if I was the rock star I always hoped I would be, only to be able to buy my dream analog consol that sits close to my fine listening / study room... I might buy these gems for around $120,000.

The Pantheon is intended to be the flagship of a range of speakers, and will cost upward of $120,000/pair in the US. Weighing 310 lbs and standing 63" tall, the speaker combines a pair of isobarik-arranged 16" Audio Technology woofers in a large, reflex-loaded bass bin with a 7" AT midrange unit in a separate enclosure, and a curved, 19" x 5" electrostatic tweeter. Internal wiring is, of course, all Siltech G7 silver-gold alloy, and the fourth-order crossover features 5.5 lb air-core inductors and high-quality capacitors. The woofer tuning is unusual, in that the design goal for the system Q was very low, 0.5 with the port open, 0.38 with it closed. This overdamped alignment, optimized with extensive computer modeling of the speaker's interaction with the room acoustics, is essential, Edwin van der Kley feels, due it its tuning not being adversely affected by room resonant modes. Even with this low Q, the Pantheon's bass extension is said to be a low 18Hz, –3dB. The speaker's overall directivity is said to be carefully controlled. All the design work was performed using a set of analytic programs from Comsol in Sweden.

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