Alsyvox Audio Design CARAVAGGIO
The Caravaggio marries ribbon-speed transparency with startling instrumental weight, delivering wall-to-wall imaging, vivid timbre, and genuinely authoritative bass. Robert Harley found its presentation exceptionally lifelike, while Audiophile Junkie highlights its open-baffle scale and dynamic density. This rare statement speaker makes large-scale music feel physically present.
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Deliciously Crispy
Sound Quality
97/100
Build Quality
87/100
Value for Money
85/100
Pros
Exceptionally lifelike timbre, image tangibility, and immersive soundstage depth.
Open, extended treble resolves fine detail without brightness or edge.
Delivers substantial bass weight, dynamic authority, and physical scale uncommon for ribbon designs.
Cons
Needs generous space behind it and careful placement well into the room to realize its fullest soundstage potential.
Assembly and setup are delicate and time-consuming due to the speaker’s size and external crossover system.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 97/100
Reviewers describe an unusually lifelike, physically convincing presentation that combines ribbon speed and resolution with genuine scale, weight, and impact. Its sound is said to be vivid and immediate rather than clinical, with the ability to make images and instruments feel present in the room.
Bass
97/100
Robert Harley reports fabulous bass weight, low-end authority, and convincing slam, explicitly saying it overturns the stereotype of ribbons as bass-light or dynamically polite. Audiophile Junkie likewise praises its “incredible” bass, power transfer, and full-scale presentation.
Mid
97/100
The midrange is described as rich, powerful, and physical rather than lightweight or ethereal. Harley found that instruments, including concert grand piano, retained convincing size, authority, and tangible presence.
Treble
97/100
Harley praises exceptionally open, fast, transparent treble with an impression of seemingly unlimited extension, while stressing that it never becomes bright or edgy. Fine high-frequency textures and very low-level detail are rendered with striking specificity.
Soundstage Imaging
97/100
Spatial reproduction is a major strength, with images reported to float freely from the speakers and occupy much of the room’s front half. Harley calls the apparent in-room presence of voices and instruments spooky, while Audiophile Junkie also highlights an immersive, intoxicating sense of ambience.
Dynamics
97/100
Reviewers commend the combination of transient speed, low-end power, and large-scale dynamic expression. Harley found the speaker thrilling and capable of shocking bass weight and impact even with a 20W SET amplifier, while Audiophile Junkie praises its ability to scale dynamically.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
87/100
The Caravaggio is a very substantial 150kg loudspeaker supplied in individual flight cases, with separate cases for its external crossovers. Review coverage confirms a complex, carefully handled installation involving assembly of the base and feet, but offers little direct assessment of finish quality, cabinet detailing, or long-term durability.
Value for Money
85/100
The quoted pricing is $200,070 with the X crossover and $258,421 with the XX crossover, placing the Caravaggio firmly in the cost-no-object end of the market. Reviewers are emphatic about its performance, but do not directly assess whether it represents good value against competing ultra-high-end loudspeakers.
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Specifications
- Speaker heigth (mm)
- 2030
- Baffle width (mm)
- 690
- Room minimum recommended width (m)
- 4,5
- Baffle thickness (mm)
- 54
- Woofer, MD, TW and STW height (m)
- 1.68
- Number of Woofers
- 1
- Woofers width (mm)
- 320
- Woofers surface (cm2)
- 5376
- Woofers max stroke (mm)
- 20
- Woofers air volume (cm3)
- 10752
- Midrange width (mm)
- 37 x 2
- Mid Tweeter width (mm)
- 25
- Super Tweeter width (mm)
- 5
- Reference sensitivity (dB)
- 94
- Crossover Frequencies (Hz)
- 500-1500-5000
- Frequency Response (Hz)
- 20-40000
- Nominal Impedance (Ohm)
- 4
- Weight (Kg) just one channel, not including external crossover
- 150
Manufacturer's Description — Alsyvox Audio Design
Our CARAVAGGIO model is very exclusive and is made on request only. It is a 4 ways design, 1 more compared to smaller models (ribbon- planar woofer, NEW ribbon midrange, ribbon tweeter and ribbon super-tweeter) on one panel per channel. Its width is 0.69m (27″) with a total height of 2.03m (80″), a weight of 150Kg (333lb) per channel excluding crossovers and a woofer surface of more than 1 sqm (11sqft) on the two channels. It comes with 2 acrylic external passive crossovers using exclusive topology, connecting cables between speaker and crossover are included. These standard crossovers have dimensions of 510x330x130mm weight 30Kg including acrylic transparent base and are using same quality components to X crossovers for Botticelli or Tintoretto, also XX quality is available on request with a size of 680x450x130mm weight 50Kg each. Difference is clearly audible with higher resolution and transparency, like upgrading the speakers by one or two levels.
Also a separate dedicated subwoofer panel (one each channel) is available and it is recommended only in very big rooms from 80sqm (800sqft).
High sensitivity of 94dB makes possible to use virtually any amplifier.
It is recommended for rooms of 40sqm (400sqft) to 120sqm (1200sqft).
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