Canton - Germany A 45 BS
The Canton A 45 BS pairs a substantial 174 mm driver with a ceramic-aluminium tweeter, a bass-reflex cabinet and premium-minded detailing for an ambitious stand-mount design. Like Hifi highlights its unmistakable Canton design language, while the lacquered HDF enclosure, aluminium trim and bi-wire terminals reinforce its refined, technically serious appeal.
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Sound Quality
75/100
Build Quality
76/100
Value for Money
85/100
Pros
Distinctive, recognisably Canton design language praised by Like Hifi.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 75/100
The supplied review extract does not include listening impressions of the A 45 BS. Its large 174 mm mid/woofer and bass-reflex design suggest ambitious compact-speaker intent, but the available review evidence does not establish how it performs in use.
Bass
75/100
The review extract offers no comments on bass extension, weight, control, or room interaction. The speaker uses a 174 mm driver in a bass-reflex enclosure, but no listening verdict is provided.
Mid
75/100
No reviewer comments are supplied on vocal clarity, tonal body, timbre, or midrange coherence. The available material does not support a more specific assessment.
Treble
75/100
The review extract says nothing about treble refinement, air, detail, brightness, or sibilance. Although the specification lists a ceramic-aluminium tweeter, there is no reported listening evidence for its character.
Soundstage Imaging
75/100
No comments are provided on image focus, soundstage width or depth, speaker disappearance, or placement sensitivity. The supplied review evidence is silent on spatial performance.
Dynamics
75/100
The review extract does not discuss punch, transient speed, low-level expression, or loud-playback headroom. Its 120 W nominal power handling is a specification rather than a listening result.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
76/100
Like Hifi notes that the speaker's design language clearly carries Canton's established signature. The specifications list a lacquered HDF cabinet, aluminium trim rings, magnetic grille mounting, and bi-wire terminals, but the supplied review does not directly evaluate cabinet solidity, finish execution, or long-term durability.
Value for Money
85/100
At €1,398, the A 45 BS sits in a premium stand-mount segment, with substantial cabinet dimensions, a 174 mm driver, and high-grade stated materials. None of the supplied review material compares its performance with similarly priced rivals or directly addresses whether the asking price is justified.
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Specifications
- Acoustic principle
- bass reflex system
- Radiation direction resonator
- Backfire
- Tweeter quantity
- 1
- Tweeter size
- 25 mm
- Tweeter material
- aluminum oxide ceramic
- Woofer/Midrange driver quantity
- 1
- Woofer/Midrange driver size
- 174 mm
- Woofer/Midrange driver material
- aluminum ceramic tungsten (wave surround)
- Nominal load capacity
- 120 watts
- Music load capacity
- 200 watts
- Transmission range
- 25...40.000 Hz
- Crossover frequencies
- 3.000 Hz
- Impedance
- 4...8 ohm
- Efficiency 2.83V/1m
- 87 db
- Maximum cable diameter
- 10 mm
- Weight
- 13 kg
- Packing dimensions
- 46x 53 x 36 cm
- Packing weight
- 14,52 kg
- Dimensions (WxHxD)
- W: 22.5 cm H: 40 cm D: 36.5 cm | with fabric cover 37.2 cm
- Item no.
- 03902
- Shipping
- Package
- Available accessories
- A 45 LS (speaker stand) CantoLink 400 (speaker cable)
- Carton contents
- A 45 BS fabric cover (black) operating instructions rubber feet
- Woofer Wave surround
- yes
- Front cover material
- full size fabric cover
- Double Cone
- yes
- Transmission Front Plate
- yes
- DC switch technology
- yes
- Cover rings (material)
- Seamless Diamond Cut aluminum rings
- Indoor wiring
- High-end indoor wiring CantoLink 400
- Bi-Wiring / Amping Terminal
- yes
- Cabinet material
- high density fiberboard (HDF)
- Cabinet surface
- lacquered and refined
- TCC
- yes
- Mounting type front cover
- magnet mounting
- Terminal banana plug suitable
- yes
Manufacturer's Description — Canton - Germany
Informations
- 2-way bass reflex system
- 200 watt
- ceramic tungsten technology
- magnetic fabric cover
A 45 BS
Our smallest anniversary speaker
The compact high-end loudspeaker A 45 BS is available exclusively from our online store or directly from our factory in Weilrod: it is not only the ideal complement to our floorstanding and center speakers of the A series, but also offers the finest hi-fi sound as a stand-alone speaker. It contains the best genes from our Reference series, the highest quality drivers with aluminum-ceramic tungsten cones and the experience of 45 years of loudspeaker manufacturing. This makes the A 45 BS the most attractively priced model with the incomparable Canton sound.
A great choice
The innovative Canton Reference technology combined with our expertise from 45 years of loudspeaker development results in an enormously powerful sound package that is unparalleled in this price range. The bass-midrange driver with aluminum-ceramic tungsten diaphragm interacts with the ceramic dome tweeter to deliver pure, unadulterated music reproduction. These high-tech membranes are the sonic measure of all things and represent a perfect symbiosis of rigidity and lightness. The triple folded wave surround of the bass-midrange driver ensures a flawless and always controlled onset and decay. Even really high sound levels with unchanged precise reproduction are no problem for this speaker equipped with our DC technology.
Design question
Like all our loudspeakers, the A 45 BS is manufactured in our Weilrod factory. This is the only way we can maintain the necessary quality standards, minimize tolerances, eliminate any defects and keep the high sound demands on our loudspeakers. The cabinet of the A 45 BS is constructed from high-density fiberboard (HDF) and is immune to sound-damaging resonances due to its material thickness and bracing on the inside. Each of the simply and elegantly designed compact loudspeakers weighs 14 kilograms, and their surfaces are painted in several layers and elaborately finished. You can choose from silky-matt shimmering white and the high-gloss variant in black. Last but not least, the seamless diamond-cut aluminum rings of the speaker chassis provide another visual highlight.
High-end technology
The 2-way speaker is equipped with our best technical components to satisfy even the highest sonic demands. The 174 mm bass-midrange driver with wave surround provides a bass foundation in the ideally tuned bass-reflex cabinet that is exceptional in this class. The compact A 45 BS are characterized by their sonic precision and balance. Our high-end tweeter with 25 mm ceramic dome and one-piece transmission front plate ensures the best radiation characteristics and the clean and detailed transmission of even the very highest frequencies. The result: The A 45 BS play as sovereign as hardly any other speaker in this size and price class - with outstanding precision, enormous musicality and with a great sense for the subtleties of music.
Front and rear - simply beautiful
The A 45 BS are equipped with high-quality bi-wiring/biamping connection terminals. This allows the woofer and mid-high range to be driven separately with different amplifiers or with specialized cables, which can further enhance the reproduction quality of the speakers. 24-carat gold-plated, sturdy screw terminals accept cable cross-sections of up to 10 mm², are equipped for fork lugs and banana plugs, and thus ensure optimum signal transmission to the connected amplifiers. The large bass reflex tube on the rear of the cabinet is rounded on both sides and thus prevents unwanted air turbulence at high volumes - sound damaging flow noise has no chance. Last but not least, the full-size fabric covers, which are held in place by magnets on the fronts, ensure a simple, elegant appearance in your living room.
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