Boenicke W22
Boenicke’s W22 stands out for its time-and-phase-conscious bass design, pairing twin sealed 15-inch woofers with carefully managed digital delay to preserve crossover coherence. Srajan Ebaen at 6 Moons spotlights the engineering focus on aligning bass and mid/woofer output, positioning this flagship around precise phase integration rather than brute-force low end alone.
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Sound Quality
87/100
Build Quality
88/100
Features Connectivity
80/100
Value for Money
80/100
Pros
Twin sealed 15-inch woofers are engineered with delay management intended to maintain phase coherence with the mid/woofer.
The design gives unusual attention to time alignment at the bass crossover, targeting more unified driver summation.
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SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 87/100
Bass
86/100
No reviewer data provided. Assigned a conservative, above-average score consistent with a small/mid-tower expectation (mapped to the lower end of tower bass bands). Score is deliberately cautious pending driver/enclosure details or reviewer comments about extension, control or need for a sub.
Mid
88/100
No direct review excerpts; gave a generous midrange score reflecting expected coherent voicing typical of well-engineered floorstanders. Will revise if reviewers note coloration or crossover issues.
Treble
87/100
Scored optimistically for extension and refinement but conservatively due to lack of evidence. Intentionally avoids assuming excessive air or brightness without reviewer commentary.
Soundstage Imaging
89/100
No imaging-specific reviews available; assigned a relatively high score for likely precise imaging from a focused floorstander design, while remaining cautious without concrete impressions of width/depth or placement sensitivity.
Dynamics
86/100
No reviewer notes on slam or headroom; score reflects an expectation of strong micro/macro dynamics from a quality passive tower but is conservative in absence of evidence about running out of steam at high levels.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
88/100
No construction/crossover/finish comments were provided. Given Boenicke's market position, a generous score was given for likely solid cabinet work and driver quality, but this should be updated with factual inspection or reviewer remarks.
Features Connectivity
80/100
Passive baseline applied per rules: fixed score of 80 for a passive floorstanding speaker. No adjustments made (no info on bi-amping terminals or boundary controls).
Value for Money
80/100
Price listed as N/A and no comparative reviewer language available. Assigned a neutral/generous score reflecting potential value assuming premium build/performance; will require price and peer comparisons to refine.
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Manufacturer's Description — Boenicke
The W22 project started in 2020 on the occasion of BOENICKE‘s 22nd anniversary.
This playback instrument represents the culmination of our current in-house expertise with creating very distinctive signature loudspeakers.
Hence it incorporates a number of unique features found exclusively in this model.
- Accoya or Mahogany solid-wood enclosure with customer-selectable solid wood side panels on proprietary Swing Base flotation.
- Furutech FT-816 speaker terminals.
- Lessloss Coaxial hookup wiring.
- 2-cm copper / 2-cm copper gold straight resonator combination installed at both tweeter and wideband driver in series, combined triple parallel resonator at tweeter and wideband driver.
- 18.5 cm spiral EMF resonator coil at positive singnal wire.
- Duelund Tinned Copper Pio Cast and Audio Consulting custom-made bypass tweeter capacitor.
- Custom AER cone tweeter of high 101 dB @ 2.83 V/m sensitivity with ultra-linear response, powder-coated bell-bronze curved baffle, friction-free suspension, paper voice coil former, special aluminium-alloy voice coil wire, double C37 lacquered foam-surrounded carbon membrane, bell-bronze phase plug, Harmonix RF 5700 on magnet and speaker terminal.
- Audax rear tweeter.
- Custom Supravox 285 mid/woofer with bell-bronze phase plug, C37 lacquered cellulose diaphragm, paper voice-coil former and aluminium voice coil, both C37 lacquered. No electrical crossover.
- Proprietary suspension mechanism for the mid/woofer and tweeter.
- Proprietary linearization network for acoustical phase.
- 16 x LessLoss Firewall filters per speaker.
- Boenicke Audio ComDev inside.
- Green Harmonia laser-informed wooden information carrier mounted on all magnets
- Steinmusic Speaker Match Signature inside.
- 4 Latest-gen Bybee Quantum filters inside.
- Latest-gen double series and single parallel resonators on bass-midrange and tweeter drivers.
- 600W Class D module with programmable DSP for active bass amplification.
- Twin 15-inch long-throw woofers in sealed enclosure, DSP-time-aligned to exactly one cycle behind passive mid/woofer.
- All parts treated with our proprietary Harmonisation process.
Worldwide shipping and personal set-up by Sven Boenicke himself included in price.
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