Audio Physic Spark
The Audio Physic Spark turns compact three-way design into an exercise in weightless vocal clarity and three-dimensional imaging. Its spiderless midrange, refined cabinet engineering and crisp, smooth treble create an open, precisely layered performance that vanishes behind the music. TECH REVIEWS highlighted its uncoloured instrumental realism, while Pursuit Perfect System praised its exceptional spatial precision.
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Sound Quality
91/100
Build Quality
92/100
Value for Money
83/100
Pros
Exceptionally open, deep and precisely focused soundstage that lets the speakers disappear from the presentation.
Spiderless midrange delivers airy, uncoloured vocals and acoustic instruments with excellent timbral nuance.
Fast, controlled bass and lively but smooth treble provide clarity without hardness or fatigue.
Immaculate high-gloss glass finish and advanced resonance-controlled cabinet construction.
Cons
Deep-bass weight is limited: output rolls off around 40–50Hz, leaving the lowest octave less physical than larger speakers.
Its highly controlled, neutral balance can sound somewhat restrained to listeners seeking warmer vocals or more overt live-energy.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 91/100
The Spark is repeatedly praised for its unusually transparent, coherent presentation, with a spacious and highly focused soundstage. Its strengths lie in vocal realism, treble refinement and precision rather than overt warmth or bass-heavy scale; a minority view finds its character somewhat sterile or emotionally reserved.
Bass
88/100
Reviewers describe the 7-inch woofer's output as fast, clean, crisp and exceptionally precise, with a pleasantly rounded and rhythmic character. It prioritises control over sheer quantity, and the lowest octave is lighter than a larger loudspeaker's: one review notes roll-off around 40-50Hz and less weight on concert piano.
Mid
93/100
The midrange is a major attraction, described as open, weightless, uncoloured and rich in timbre. Vocals are tightly focused and vividly placed, while one reviewer compared its effortless clarity to a Quad electrostatic. One dissenting listener appreciated the clarity but found the sound somewhat sterile and aloof.
Treble
92/100
The treble is widely praised for being crisp, detailed, lively and extended without hardness or edginess. Reviews also highlight a smooth, airy quality that conveys the ambience of live and reverberant recordings particularly well. Listeners accustomed to a sharper, more brilliant balance may find it slightly restrained.
Soundstage Imaging
94/100
This is one of the Spark's clearest strengths. Reviewers report a large, deep and three-dimensional presentation, with exceptionally precise placement of voices and instruments. The speaker is repeatedly described as open, transparent and able to disappear from the presentation.
Dynamics
89/100
The Spark is credited with quick, responsive drivers and convincing dynamic contrast, particularly through its articulate bass. It sounds more animated and full with sympathetic amplification, though one reviewer felt it could remain a little emotionally restrained rather than becoming fully riled up by the music.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
92/100
The Spark earns strong praise for immaculate fit and finish, including its high-gloss cabinet, glass baffle and premium WBT binding posts. Reviews also point to substantial engineering in the resonance-controlled cabinet, silicon-carbide internal liners and unusual spiderless drivers. The dedicated stands look well considered, although their single-upright design can exhibit some wobble.
Value for Money
83/100
At roughly £5,800 or €6,590 before optional stands, reviewers consistently acknowledge that the Spark is expensive. Its advanced engineering, finish and reference-oriented performance help support the premium, and one reviewer felt it could offer more overall than a much cheaper Mission under the right conditions. Even so, the price remains a meaningful consideration rather than an explicit value-led selling point.
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Specifications
- Height
- 483 mm / 19"
- Width
- 202 mm / 7.9"
- Depth
- 371 mm / 14.6"
- Required Space Width x Depth
- 202 x 430 mm / 7.9" x 16.9"
- Weight
- ~18kg (Glass)
- Recommended amplifier power
- 30-180 W
- Impedance
- 4 Ohm
- Frequency range
- 40 Hz - 40 kHz
- Sensitivity
- 88 dB
- Tweeter
- HHCT III 39 mm / 1,5"
- Midrange
- HHCM SL 150 mm / 5,9"
- Woofer
- Double Surround 180 mm / 7"
- Assecories
- Glass Grill Black.
Manufacturer's Description — Audio Physic
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With exceptional dynamic sound and an impressive, almost tangible spatial depth and width, Audio Physic sets new standards for three-way compact loudspeakers with the new Spark.
With its elegant, minimalistic, and sound-optimized design, the Spark closes the gap between a bookshelf and floor-standing speakers, offering tremendous freedom in positioning without compromising superior acoustic performance. The result is a fascinating listening experience even in the most demanding rooms.
The new Spark comes with the Audio Physic PowerTrain technology known from the Cardeas. A vital component of this technology is the unique HHCM V SL midrange driver, which works entirely without a centering spider and transmits the kinetic energy in a powerful and efficient way, without the slightest sign of listening fatigue. The Spark achieves a resolution previously unknown for speakers in its category.
The Spark also features an innovative woofer system with Audio Physic’s Dual Surround technology.
In addition, the new Spark adopts other key innovations of the Cardeas: in addition to the new midrange driver, the new edition of the icon convinces with the proven multi-sandwich housing technology, a high-tech honeycomb construction inside the cabinet, capacitors with copper foam contact in the tweeter filter / tweeter branch and of course excellent processed materials – from the terminal to the chassis.
Optional speaker stands from Liedtke-Metalldesign can be found at: https://www.liedtke-metalldesign.eu/epages/64011114.sf/en_GB/?ViewObjectPath=%2FShops%2F64011114%2FProducts%2FLM-AP-SPARK
3-Way Design
The 3-way speaker features three different drivers that share reproduction of the entire frequency range. One or more woofers, a midrange driver and a tweeter. Usually the crossover frequency between low and mid frequencies is set between 150Hz and 300Hz, and between 2,000Hz and 3,000Hz for the transition from the midrange to the tweeter.
HHCM V SL
HHCM V SL – The Fifth Generation. A New Reference in Midrange Performance.
For many years, the spiderless HHCM SL has stood for absolute precision and naturalness in music reproduction. With the fifth generation – the HHCM V SL+ – we have consistently advanced this philosophy, elevating sonic performance to an entirely new level. The result is a listening experience that is more engaging and closer to reality than ever before.
At the heart of this development is the innovative RECOTec diaphragm material: a carbon fiber mesh embedded in a polypropylene matrix. This unique material combination unites maximum stiffness with perfect internal damping, enabling a midrange that sounds more open, dynamic, and authentic than ever. Voices, instruments, and the finest nuances unfold with breathtaking naturalness.
Experience music in a new dimension – precise, transparent, and full of emotion.
HHCT V
HHCT V – The Fifth Generation. A New Reference in High-Frequency Performance.
For many years, Audio Physic’s cone tweeters have stood for exceptional precision and naturalness in high-frequency reproduction. With the fifth generation – the HHCT V – we have consistently advanced this philosophy, elevating treble performance to an entirely new level. The result is a listening experience that reveals more detail and realism than ever before.
At the heart of this development is, once again, the innovative RECOTec cone material: a carbon fiber mesh embedded in a polypropylene matrix. This unique material combination unites maximum stiffness with optimal internal damping, enabling treble reproduction that is more open, refined, and authentic than ever. The finest nuances, delicate overtones, and the airiness of a recording unfold with breathtaking naturalness.
RECOTec Membrane
RECOTec – The membrane material of the future
With RECOTec , a completely new type of membrane material has been developed: a chaotically arranged carbon fiber scrim, embedded in a high-purity polypropylene matrix. Adhesives or synthetic resins are completely dispensed with – disturbing resonances cannot occur in the first place.
The result is a sonic symbiosis: the naturalness of classic paper cones combined with the precision and resolution of modern aluminium cones. RECOTec thus stands for a new generation of loudspeaker diaphragms – low-resonance, high-resolution and absolutely authentic.
PowerTrain™
Dual Basket Design
AUDIO PHYSIC’S unique DUAL BASKET DESIGN is a true break-through innovation and the most important part of the HHCM-III technology. Instead of the tradition single basket, our HHCM-III features two separate baskets to prevent and subdue unwanted vibrations already at the source.
Honeycomb Sandwich Board
Very rigid material with an internal honeycomb structure, first used in our state-of-the-art STRUCTURE. It is very light and a lot better in avoiding unwanted vibrations and resonances than the commonly used MDF.
Ceramic Foam Bracing
Ceramic Foam is a high-tech material used for internal bracing in many of our speakers. It is much stiffer than MDF although it consists of 85% air. This means, the room taken up by the internal bracing is also part of the effective volume of air the drivers need to work. By using Ceramic Foam, we can build loudspeakers that match and out-perform much bulkier speakers.
Sandwich Cabinet Construction
Our unique Sandwich Cabinets are an innovative way to stop the speaker cabinet from developing an acoustical life of its own. It is especially effective with our stylish glass-finished speakers as the relatively high weight of the glass panels helps dampening the cabinet even better.
VCT – Vibration Control Terminal
Unwanted vibrations have negative effects on sound quality wherever they occur in the signal path. Because AUDIO PHYSIC has made it their mission to fight unwanted vibration and resonance whenever and wherever they occur, the fully decoupled VIBRATION CONTROL TERMINAL (VCT) has been devised.
Bi-Wiring/Bi-Amping optional
Most our speakers have a regular single-wiring terminal to avoid unnecessary metal or wire bridges that would harm sound quality when used in single-wiring configuration (Which is what most Hi-Fi fans actually use). However, an optional Bi-Wiring/Bi-Amping Terminal can usually be ordered with any new speaker. Retrofitting only on special request.
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