Rockport Technologies Avior II
The Rockport Technologies Avior II marries deep, articulated bass with relaxed, high-resolution detail, revealing vocal texture and room ambience without turning brittle. Jeff Fritz praised its unusually complete tonal balance, while Jim Swantko found an expansive, precisely anchored soundstage and musical ease across recordings. Bespoke drivers, a waveguide tweeter, and immaculate cabinetry make this a genuinely reference-grade floorstander.
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Deliciously Crispy
Sound Quality
95/100
Build Quality
97/100
Value for Money
91/100
Pros
Exceptionally deep, powerful bass with rare note-to-note articulation and low-frequency detail.
Highly resolving presentation remains smooth, poised, and free of long-session treble fatigue.
Expansive, deeply layered imaging with firmly anchored instruments and voices.
Exceptional fit, finish, cabinet inertness, and individually fine-tuned crossover construction.
Cons
Rear-ported design needs thoughtful spacing from the back wall for optimal bass performance.
At 220 pounds each, these speakers require help to unpack, position, and fine-tune.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 95/100
Reviewers describe an unusually complete, highly resolved presentation that remains relaxed, tonally natural, and enjoyable over long sessions. Its particular strengths are exceptionally articulate deep bass, fine low-level detail, and a large, stable sense of recorded space.
Bass
97/100
Reviewers repeatedly praise bass depth, weight, punch, and exceptional note-to-note definition. SoundStage found it deeper and more full-bodied than most similarly sized speakers, while Future Audiophile called the low end visceral, articulated, and beyond fault.
Mid
95/100
The midrange is described as basically neutral, information-rich, and emotionally convincing with voices. Reviewers heard Adele's huskiness clearly, described vocals as nuanced and full of feeling, and praised the speaker's ability to expose fine recorded textures.
Treble
95/100
The high frequencies are widely portrayed as highly detailed but notably free of fatigue. One reviewer who normally avoids beryllium tweeters called this implementation magical, while another reported a balance they never tired of.
Soundstage Imaging
94/100
Future Audiophile reported an exceptionally dense, expansive stage extending well beyond the cabinets, with especially striking depth that wrapped around the listening room. Images were described as firmly anchored, making the recorded stage easy to visualize.
Dynamics
94/100
The Avior II is reported to reproduce rhythm sections with convincing power and chest-impacting force. Reviewers also highlight its ability to retrieve low-level musical and recording information without losing composure or musical ease.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
97/100
Construction and finish receive emphatic praise across the reviews. The heavily braced, constrained-layer-damped enclosure, carefully matched crossover parts, inert cabinet behavior, flawless gloss finish, and precisely executed details support its reputation as an exceptionally well-made high-end loudspeaker.
Value for Money
91/100
At $38,500 per pair, the Avior II is plainly a major purchase, but reviewers consider it competitive beside similarly ambitious high-end alternatives. Future Audiophile calls it a relative value against comparable performance and quality, while SoundStage argues that its performance makes the sacrifice of a new car a worthwhile one for the committed listener.
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The Avengers (Rockport Technologies Avior II w/ Convergent Audio Technology)
12/29/2022
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Eric Clapton: Layla ~ Rockport Avior II | CAT JL7 | SL-1 | Acoustic Signature
7/18/2024
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Specifications
- Woofers
- (2) 9” carbon fiber sandwich composite
- Midrange
- 6” carbon fiber sandwich composite
- Tweeter
- Waveguide mounted 1” beryllium dome
- Height
- 46.50″
- Width
- 15.00″ (base)
- Depth
- 24.50″ (base)
- Weight
- 220 lbs. each
- Frequency Response
- 25 – 30 KHz, -3dB
- Nominal impedance
- 4 ohms
- Sensitivity
- 89.5 dB SPL/2.83 v
- Min. amplifier power
- 50 watts
Manufacturer's Description — Rockport Technologies
While carefully preserving the original Avior’s distinctive form, the new Avior II is the epitome of high performance and visual elegance in a loudspeaker which although modest in size, delivers authentic, full range sound.
Immediately apparent is the potent combination of our new waveguide mounted beryllium tweeter and our latest generation of 6″ midrange and twin 9″ carbon fiber sandwich composite bass drivers. This, in conjunction with an entirely redesigned crossover, has allowed us to essentially create a completely new loudspeaker. The Avior II’s sound is even more transparent and resolved than the original, and is characterized by a rich, textural liquidity and authoritative dynamic fidelity throughout the entire frequency range.
The Avior II’s waveguide mounted beryllium tweeter improves the acoustic impedance match of the tweeter at the low end of its range, and allows for lower distortion and greater dynamic expression from the tweeter itself, as well as improved dispersion characteristics at the midrange/tweeter crossover point.
The Avior II’s triple laminated, constrained mode damped enclosure boasts a solid 6 inch thick front baffle and variable section thickness, gracefully curved side panels and crowned top surface. Together, these not only create an elegant form, but also endow the enclosure with immense stiffness and minimum resonant signature. The enclosure’s large sweeping chamfers and ever changing baffle dimensions virtually eliminate diffraction anomalies, while the Avior II’s visually stunning, raked back form and high gloss piano black finish are the ideal complement to its awesome sonic accomplishment.
Like all Rockport Technologies loudspeakers, the Avior II has an extremely low noise floor, and its sound remains coherent and resolved, as well as maintaining dynamic fidelity even when played at extremely low volumes. This ability to resolve low-level information is critical to reproducing the artistic nuance of music, as well as resolving the spatial cues of the recording environment, and enables the loudspeaker to transport the listener back to the original musical event.
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