Daniel Hertz Amber Midnight
The Amber Midnight delivers room-filling scale, deep controlled bass and holographic imaging from its high-sensitivity coaxial design. HiFi Huff found its presentation open, sweet and emotionally absorbing across genres, while Adrian praised its startling dynamics and ability to make recordings feel vividly alive. It is a distinctive high-end speaker built for immersive, full-bodied musical engagement.
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Deliciously Crispy
Sound Quality
94/100
Build Quality
85/100
Value for Money
95/100
Pros
Exceptionally deep, powerful bass remains clean and controlled, with convincing room-pressurising weight.
Expansive, layered soundstage with stable image placement, strong depth and a disappearing-room effect.
Wide dynamic range and crisp attack, playing from low levels to high output without apparent congestion or hardness.
Smooth, airy treble and clear, textured midrange support engaging playback across a broad range of music.
Cons
Careful placement is essential: one reviewer initially heard an overly chesty, coloured 200Hz–600Hz region until the speakers were repositioned closer to the rear wall.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 94/100
Reviewers describe an unusually expansive, immersive and emotionally involving presentation, combining deep low-frequency reach with a clean, open top end. The main qualification comes from one reviewer, who heard an overly chesty and coloured upper-bass/lower-midrange balance, while another found the added midrange body controlled and clear.
Bass
96/100
Both reviews report powerful, exceptionally deep bass for the speaker’s size. Adrian heard organ fundamentals reaching close to the lowest registers and HiFi Huff describes room-pressurising low bass that remains clean and controlled.
Mid
89/100
HiFi Huff praises sweeter, fuller mids that retain vocal texture, clarity and emotional expression without becoming excessively warm. However, Adrian heard a significant 200Hz–600Hz lift that made the presentation chesty, heavy and coloured.
Treble
95/100
HiFi Huff finds the treble extended, airy and open, yet notably smooth and free of hardness or glare. The review also praises the system’s detail and clarity without the leanness or digital edge the reviewer associates with lesser setups.
Soundstage Imaging
96/100
Both reviewers give particularly strong accounts of the spatial presentation. Adrian describes stable placement of performers and walls seeming to disappear, while HiFi Huff hears a room-filling stage with convincing width, depth, height and layering.
Dynamics
97/100
Dynamics are a major strength in both accounts. Adrian reports startling micro- and macro-dynamic impact, while HiFi Huff praises the soft-to-loud range, crisp attacks and ability to play very loudly without congestion, hardness or audible strain.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
85/100
The reviews say little about cabinet finish, joinery, terminals or long-term durability. Product information lists a substantial 30kg enclosure per speaker, but the available listening reports do not provide detailed hands-on construction assessment.
Value for Money
95/100
Price references vary, with one review citing roughly $13,200–$14,670 and another discussing an Amber system around $20,000–$21,000. HiFi Huff nevertheless considers its performance remarkable against systems costing $70,000 to $100,000, presenting it as an unusually compelling high-end alternative.
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Specifications
- Weight
- 30kg each
- Dimensions
- Height: 100cm Width: 33.3cm Depth: 32.8cm
- Input impedance
- 8 ohms nominal
- Efficiency
- 97dB
- Frequency response
- 30Hz – 20kHz
- Power handling
- 350W
Manufacturer's Description — Daniel Hertz
Hand built in Venice, Italy by dedicated artisans and engineers, Amber is everything that most people want most in music reproduction.
Amber Midnight is a universal speaker that plays recordings of all genres of music with ease, from the most delicate to the most powerful. In addition to warm, full, clear sound, Amber has the speed, punch, dynamics, and vitality needed to reproduce the beginnings of notes that bring music to life. Amber Midnight fills the needs of the most demanding music lovers as well as the most particular interior designers.
DH prices are in euros with no VAT. Tax is added according to the country of the customer.
Amber Midnight is built with a 10” coaxial driver with the tweeter in the center, for pin point imaging. Designed with pro audio technology and specifications, Amber Midnight is 97db efficient, has 118db dynamic range, and produces 100dB of sound pressure level (SPL) with only 3 Watts of power. Amber can be easily driven by any good amplifier, but it’s full potential is realized when driven by the Daniel Hertz Maria 350.
The original Amber with wood cabinet was introduced in July, 2023. In March, 2024, DH introduced Amber Midnight, built in solid mirror finish Waveglas™ material due to outstanding performance advantages. Waveglas™ is non-porous, is 2.5 times the density of wood, and less resonant. The radius front panel of Amber Midnight enables better imaging.
Amber Midnight comes in black or white, to complement a range of interior styles. Additional color options are available on request.
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