A tall floorstanding loudspeaker standing in a dim room, a figure in a long coat beside it

The Speaker You Are Meant to See.

Floorstanding and shelf loudspeakers chosen as furniture, placed and tuned as instruments.

The instruments.

Floorstanding speaker installation starts with the pair you will look at every day, and the electronics that drive it from out of sight.

  • A Basalte Aalto speaker in green fabric with a brass edge

    Basalte Aalto

    A floor or shelf speaker wrapped in fabric with bronze edges, controlled from Basalte.

  • A Basalte Miro remote, its screen above a column of keys

    Basalte Miro

    A handheld remote with a small colour screen for music and scenes.

  • A Crestron DM NAX amplifier

    Crestron DM NAX

    Networked multi-zone streaming amplifiers, in the rack and out of the room.

  • A black Control4 amplifier with a single large volume knob

    Control4 amplifier

    Control4 rack audio electronics, specified for the speakers they drive.

A Basalte Aalto in charcoal fabric with a bronze edge, lying on a dark surface
The corner of a Basalte Aalto in teal fabric with a white frame, on a pale shelf
A tall Basalte Aalto in sage fabric on a metal base, standing in a timber-panelled room beside a man in a lounge chair

Aalto in its fabrics.

Fabric fronts and metal edges, chosen like upholstery for the room the speaker will stand in.

Charcoal, bronze edge

The questions buyers ask first.

A tall loudspeaker in deep blue lacquer standing on its plinth in a warm, empty room

Floorstanding or in-wall: which sounds better?

For a dedicated listening chair, a floorstanding pair: it brings scale, depth and presence to the room it stands in. For music through the whole house, in-wall and in-ceiling speakers fill every room while it keeps its lines.

The red display of an amplifier glowing in a dark room

Do floorstanding speakers need a separate amplifier?

A passive pair does, and we match it with amplification that has headroom to spare, so quiet passages stay quiet and loud ones stay clean. The amplifier lives in the rack or out of sight; only the speakers stay in the room.

A Basalte Miro remote resting on its stand in a softly lit room

Can floorstanding speakers join the whole-home system?

Yes. The listening room becomes a zone with its own source, played from the same app, keypad or remote as every other room, and one preset can lower the lights as the record begins.

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