In development Both Reference variants are under active engineering · nothing in the line is shipping yet

The Reference line — without compromise

The Reference Line

The Reference is where the Excité architecture is pushed to its limit. The same direct measurement, the same per-driver feed-forward correction on FPGA, the same signal path that runs through every Excité loudspeaker — with the most uncompromising driver complement and front-end electronics we have engineered around. A 34-millimeter pure-beryllium dome tweeter. Woven carbon-fiber composite cones across the lower bands. A dual-OCXO precision clock domain feeding an ESS9039 PRO converter.

The Reference Compact is the two-way standmount expression. The Reference is the three-way floorstanding expression. Both share the same drivers, the same correction loop, the same conversion. They differ in the topology that asks each driver to do.

Two variants · Sealed · Active · Beryllium · Carbon-composite · Dual OCXO

01 The line

One thesis, pushed to its limit

Both Reference variants are built on a single conviction: that distortion is a measurement problem before it is a perceptual one, and that direct measurement is what makes correction tractable. The architecture — per-driver feed-forward correction on FPGA, parameters measured directly during operation rather than estimated from terminal signals — is the same architecture that runs through every Excité loudspeaker.

What sets the Reference line apart is what the architecture operates on. Both variants share a 34-millimeter pure-beryllium dome tweeter, woven carbon-fiber composite cones across the lower bands, an underhung motor topology on every dynamic driver, a dual-OCXO precision clock domain, and an ESS9039 PRO converter ahead of per-driver Class D amplification. Where the Origin line is the architecture distilled to its smallest complete expression, the Reference line is the architecture pushed to the most uncompromising driver and electronics complement we know how to engineer around.

What differs between Compact and Reference is topology. The Compact is a two-way standmount: the same 6.5-inch carbon-composite driver covers everything from bass to lower treble. The Reference is a three-way floorstander: the carbon-composite driver is freed of bass duty and becomes a dedicated midrange, while two 9.5-inch long-throw woofers (sharing the same diaphragm material) handle the bass. Each driver in the Reference operates in only the part of its range where it is most linear.