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Loudspeakers
Hand-built spherical-wave horn loudspeakers from Mexico, voiced for the holographic immediacy only true horns deliver.
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about sadurni acoustics
Sadurni Acoustics is a Mexico-based horn loudspeaker maker founded by Argentine designer Diego Sadurni, whose work centers on a proprietary spherical-wave horn geometry rather than the radial, conical, or tractrix profiles that dominate the rest of the horn world. Where a tractrix horn optimizes a strict impedance match and a conical horn trades efficiency for pattern control, the spherical-wave approach Sadurni developed launches a wavefront that more closely approximates a portion of an expanding sphere, which the company argues produces a more coherent integration with room acoustics and a more natural transition between drivers. The result is a family of speakers — the widely reviewed Staccato and the larger M-BLACK reference — that combine the high sensitivity and dynamic ease horns are known for with a tonal balance reviewers have repeatedly described as more relaxed and less shouty than typical horn fare. The Staccato has become the brand's calling card, drawing show-circuit praise from Stereophile, Dagogo, Audioholics, and Six Moons over multiple seasons, often paired with Audio Mirror's Russian-designed, US-built tube amplification — a partnership that has become something of a recurring fixture at AXPONA, Capital Audiofest, and Pacific Audio Fest. The M-BLACK sits above as the cost-no-object statement: a much larger multi-horn system aimed at dedicated rooms and the SET amplifier crowd that values single-digit-watt drive with triple-digit dynamic headroom. Within the high-end horn landscape, Sadurni occupies an interesting middle ground. It is more bespoke and lower-volume than Avantgarde Acoustic's industrial polish, less stratospherically priced than Cessaro or Acapella's flagship multi-horn arrays, and warmer in voicing than the British restraint of Living Voice's Vox Olympian. For dealers and listeners drawn to horn-loaded sound but wary of the brittle, in-your-face stereotype, Sadurni Acoustics offers a credible, well-reviewed alternative built by a designer who has spent years refining a single core idea.