sasandu textreme edition
3-way floor standing loudspeakers with Satori Textreme® drivers
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This 3-way floor standing loudspeakers with Satori Textreme® drivers features elegant, slanted baffle for time-coherence and separate internal chambers, all engineered to reduce coloration - providing the best listening experience at a competitive price point.
This is the one we built when someone asked "what if you just stopped compromising?"
The Sasandu is SB Acoustics' flagship — a proper three-way with a dedicated Satori midrange, dual 7½" Papyrus woofers, and that TW29BN beryllium tweeter that reviewers keep losing their composure over. Three drivers, three separate bands, three isolated chambers. Each driver does one job and does it brilliantly. No asking a midwoofer to moonlight as a midrange. No compromises dressed up as "design choices."
One of our customers came from Buchardt. Another expected it to sound like a bigger Ara Be. It doesn't. The Sasandu has its own voice — more authority in the bass, more space in the midrange, more of that uncanny feeling that someone dismantled the front wall and wheeled the musicians into your living room.
At 32.5 kg per cabinet, your spouse will have opinions about placement. Ignore them at your own risk. But once it's playing, the complaints tend to stop.
What's Inside
Tweeter — Satori TW29BN, 29mm beryllium dome, neodymium motor. The same driver used in every Satori Be kit because there's no reason to use anything else. Breakup past 38 kHz. Extended, smooth, and detailed without ever getting aggressive.
Midrange — Satori MR16P-4, 6½" Egyptian Papyrus cone in its own sealed chamber. This is the key difference from the Rinjani — a dedicated midrange driver that only handles the vocal and presence band. No bass duty, no compromise. Just the part of the frequency range where your ears are most critical, handled by a driver with nothing else to worry about.
Woofers — Dual Satori MW19P-8, 7½" Egyptian Papyrus cones. Bass reflex loaded, port tuned to 32 Hz. Two woofers mean more radiating area, lower distortion at any given volume, and bass that reaches into the low 30s without strain. Your subwoofer can take the night off.
Cabinet — Triple-thickness MDF construction (28, 18, and 15mm). Slanted baffle for time alignment. Faceted top edges. Separate internal chambers for each driver band. Rear-firing port. Piano gloss finish in a cabinet that stands over a metre tall and looks every bit the flagship it is.
Crossover — 480 Hz / 2800 Hz, three-way. Pre-assembled and tested. Gold-plated WBT-style binding posts.
KEY FEATURES
KEY FEATURES
Advanced TeXtreme High End SATORI drivers
Elegantly inclined cabinet for time alignment
Faceted baffle and optimized tweeter position for reduced diffraction
Slanted internal partition for reduced of standing waves
Large low noise rear firing vent
SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATIONS
Tweeter: SATORI TW29TXN-B-8
Midwoofer: 6.5 inch SATORI MW16TX-4
Woofer: 7.5 inch SATORI MW19TX-8
Frequency range: 32-32000 Hz +/-3 dB
Sensitivity (2.83V/1m): 89 dB
Nominal Impedance: 4 Ω
Max SPL: 108 dB
Recommended amplifier: 100-200 W
Cross-over frequency: 400/2800 Hz
Enclosure type: Bass reflex (woofers), sealed (midrange)
Port tuning frequency: 32 Hz
Cabinet material: 28, 18, 15 mm MDF
Dimension: 1100 x 230 x 615 mm
Net weight: 32.5 kg
"I would have thought that the SASANDU would just multiply my experience with the Ara BE tenfold. This is not the case as the SASANDU carries its own sound signature albeit using similar drivers as Ara BE. The whole cabinet design somehow gave a different perspective and listening experience to me in my system. "
EL Hefe Hifi Reviews
The Sasandu is the speaker you build once and stop looking. Come hear it — bring your most demanding recordings and your most opinionated friends.
WHAT are SATORI TEXTREME® drivers?
WHAT are SATORI TEXTREME® drivers?
SATORI TeXtreme drivers are made of Thin Ply Carbon Diaphragms (TPCD). Thin-ply carbon is a novel type of material that is used in applications that require the absolute highest performance in combination with ultralight weight - allowing the diaphragm to reproduce sounds with extreme clarity.
why use SATORI TEXTREME® drivers?
why use SATORI TEXTREME® drivers?
It boils down to physics. Heavier, thicker cones have more mass, which requires more energy from the voice coil to move. Heavier cones also have more inertia, they cannot start and stop moving quickly.
Exceptional Handling
Exceptional Handling
If you have a car, It is exactly like accelerating and braking. A car with shorter acceleration and braking times are well-regarded in the automotive industry as to have ‘exceptional handling’.
Cars like these are sought after as they accelerate and stop exactly where you want it, without overshooting, sliding, or crashing head-first into a car in front of you, when you least expected it.
That’s why car chassis are now made with lighter, stronger materials, so the engine doesn’t have to work as hard, while keeping passengers safe in an emergency.
Reducing drag and flexing
Reducing drag and flexing
Textreme is used in the audio loudspeaker industry due to its high specific stiffness, which allows it to retain shape under high loads. The speaker cone is subject to high stress due to their continuous back-and-forth movement in producing sound.
Textreme is lightweight, which helps to reduce the overall weight of the cone, reducing drag and flexing, leading to tighter, cleaner transient response.
How does Textreme compare to Beryllium?
How does Textreme compare to Beryllium?
So far we have had experts say Textreme sounds like a warmer version of Beryllium and think Beryllium sounds slightly warmer. This means it is a more budget friendly equivalent to beryllium!
Wouldn’t Textreme sound lean and harsh as it is so stiff?
Wouldn’t Textreme sound lean and harsh as it is so stiff?
Stiff materials are needed to re-create audio as accurately to the source as possible. This is why SB Acoustics’ Satori TeXtreme tweeters and midwoofer drivers are well reviewed. Despite the stiff material, sounds appear life-like, with good imaging and body, with virtually no harshness.
Here at Artisan Acoustics, we have a limited run on the Textreme Edition speaker kits in Malaysia and Singapore. We think you will appreciate how they sound, so WhatsApp us to arrange a demo session, and have a listen yourself to decide!
Textreme® is a brand name for a line of carbon fibre composite materials manufactured by Oxeon, a Swedish company that specialises in advanced textile materials. Textreme composite materials have found great use in automotive, industrial and Aeronautics sectors for their strong, lightweight and durable properties.
SB Acoustics brings an alternative to the high-end transducer market. Marrying the design talents of Danesian Audio (Denmark), a company filled with industry veterans while being responsible for many well known and revolutionary designs with manufacturing expert Sinar Baja Electric (Indonesia), a vertically integrated company with more than 40 years of transducer manufacturing experience.
Artisan Acoustics was founded with a passion for high-end High-fidelity audio in Singapore, and now distributes SB Acoustics products in Asia outside of Indonesia. Here at AA, we want to bring the masses to enjoy, and appreciate the art of music and audio, and the amazing engineering that goes behind audio systems.
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