Alsyvox Audio Design BOTTICELLI
The Alsyvox Botticelli delivers explosive planar dynamics, deep bass authority and a vastly dimensional soundstage without surrendering ribbon speed. Greg Weaver found its full-bodied, coherent voice richly textured and exceptionally revealing, while the dipolar design locks images into vivid, layered space. It is a formidable full-range ribbon statement for ambitious systems.
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Deliciously Crispy
Sound Quality
97/100
Build Quality
90/100
Value for Money
85/100
Pros
Combines unusually deep, powerful bass and explosive transient impact with the speed and articulation expected from a planar ribbon design.
Exceptionally coherent, full-bodied tonality with rich timbre, convincing instrumental decay and fatigue-free high-frequency detail.
Dipolar radiation produces highly layered staging, precise image placement and vivid spatial focus.
Cons
Its large dipolar panels need a generously proportioned room to reveal their full potential.
A six-figure price places it firmly among the most ambitious high-end loudspeaker investments.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 97/100
Greg Weaver found the Botticelli X exceptionally coherent, full-bodied and tonally convincing, combining planar speed and resolution with unusually forceful low-frequency scale. Spatial presentation, image specificity, treble detail and large-scale dynamic expression were all described in emphatically enthusiastic terms.
Bass
97/100
The review reports remarkable bass extension alongside powerful low-frequency response, pairing planar speed and microdynamic subtlety with the impact and scale associated with dynamic-driver systems. Percussion and other bass-rich material reportedly had blistering transient attack without sacrificing articulation.
Mid
97/100
Weaver describes an extraordinary sense of coherence, saying the speaker speaks with one continuous voice. He found its presentation full-bodied and harmonically complex, with tonal balance he considered faultless for a ribbon-based loudspeaker.
Treble
96/100
The integrated mid/supertweeter extends to 40kHz, and the reviewer found the X version especially revealing of detail and nuance. Crucially, that insight was said to arrive without aggressive glare or listening fatigue over extended sessions.
Soundstage Imaging
97/100
Its dipolar presentation was praised for exquisite dimensionality, with convincing layering, space and image scale. The review specifically highlights sharply specified image placement, size and shape, as well as an exceptional focus on spatial cues.
Dynamics
97/100
The Botticelli impressed the reviewer with blistering transient attack and exceptional dynamic capability, particularly on percussion and low-frequency events. Explosive vocal sounds were reproduced with concussive power while retaining nuanced articulation and resolution.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
90/100
The speaker uses robust heavy-gauge steel frames, vibration-conscious materials including solid teak, and substantial panel construction. Alsyvox also manufactures key ribbon and diaphragm elements in-house, while the crossover uses high-grade components from established specialist suppliers.
Value for Money
85/100
The review lists the Botticelli at $100,000 per pair, or $135,000 with the optional X crossover reviewed. It offers no direct comparison with similarly priced rivals or clear judgment on whether the asking price represents strong value.
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Specifications
- Speaker heigth (mm)
- 1770
- Baffle width (mm)
- 640
- Room minimum recommended width (m)
- 4
- Baffle thickness (mm)
- 54
- Woofer, MD, TW and STW height (m)
- 1.42
- Number of Woofers
- 1
- Woofers width (mm)
- 320
- Woofers surface (cm2)
- 4544
- Woofers max stroke (mm)
- 20
- Woofers air volume (cm3)
- 9088
- Midrange width (mm)
- n/a
- Mid Tweeter width (mm)
- 25
- Super Tweeter width (mm)
- 5
- Reference sensitivity (dB)
- 94
- Crossover Frequencies (Hz)
- 750-5000
- Frequency Response (Hz)
- 22-40000
- Nominal Impedance (Ohm)
- 4
- Weight (Kg) just one channel, not including external crossover
- 115
Manufacturer's Description — Alsyvox Audio Design
The best is in the middle (“In medio stat virtus” the Romans used to say) so in normal size rooms, from 25sqm (250sqft) to 100sqm (1000sqft) we recommend our BOTTICELLI model.
The two panels size is quite classical: 0.64m (25″) wide and 1.77m (70″) height, with a total of 0.9sqm (10sqft) woofer surface on the two channels and weight of 115Kg (255lb) per channel.
High sensitivity of 94dB makes possible to use virtually any amplifier.
It is possible to upgrade to Botticelli X or XX buying the two external passive crossovers using an exclusive topology and bigger/higher quality components, connecting cables between speaker and crossover are included. X external crossovers are 430x330x130mm each weight 25Kg including the transparent acrylic base, XX external crossovers are 680x450x130mm each weight 45Kg including the transparent acrylic base. XX version is using even bigger and higher quality components and connecting cables compared to X version and the result is higher resolution and transparency, it is like upgradind the speakers by one or two levels.
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