[NEW! Sveda Audio Blipo active monitors – review on Hifi Knights]

Sveda Audio, active speaker manufacturer based in Poland,  is mainly associated with the professional audio industry. But their fame is growing rapidly and more regular music listeners are starting to pay attention to the home audio solutions offered by the company. This review of Blipo  active monitors written by Dawid Grzyb should help to understand more about how well made home active set up should be like. We have proudly added Sveda Audio to our portfolio as one and only manufacturer for the reason, which you are just about to find.  Enjoy!

intro :

“… Sveda Audio Blipo is an active monitor, hence a product which allows one to build quite a minimalist setup around it. All it takes to get this model going is a DAC and a transport and – if the former is loaded with volume control – even a separate preamplifier can be crossed off the list. Less money spent on cables and associated electronics and less space needed in comparison to regular setups are the valuable upshots of such hardware reduction, whereas limited mix’n’match options might be a drawback to some people…”

” … As a proper d’Appolito case, Blipo is loaded with two 18W/8535 7″ mid-woofers per cabinet and one D2905/9700 tweeter in-between. All belong to Scan-Speak’s Classic series and are in constant production since early ’90s. The former transducer has cast aluminium baskets, air dried and carbon fibre mixture based membranes and this Danish manufacturer’s proprietary Symmetric Drive scheme, whereas high FR unit, also known as ‘the small Revelator’, has soft silk dome of 28mm diameter and is able to take high loads with minimal distortions. Blipo’s crossover frequency is set at 2 600 Hz via quasi 4th order plot, separate for each driver. It’s actually not a 24dB/octave slope but two 12dB cascade filters instead, which allowed Arek to handle frequency and phase response more freely in comparison to a textbook 4th order solution…”

“…As a proper d’Appolito case, Blipo is loaded with two 18W/8535 7″ mid-woofers per cabinet and one D2905/9700 tweeter in-between. All belong to Scan-Speak’s Classic series and are in constant production since early ’90s. The former transducer has cast aluminium baskets, air dried and carbon fibre mixture based membranes and this Danish manufacturer’s proprietary Symmetric Drive scheme, whereas high FR unit, also known as ‘the small Revelator’, has soft silk dome of 28mm diameter and is able to take high loads with minimal distortions. Blipo’s crossover frequency is set at 2 600 Hz via quasi 4th order plot, separate for each driver. It’s actually not a 24dB/octave slope but two 12dB cascade filters instead, which allowed Arek to handle frequency and phase response more freely in comparison to a textbook 4th order solution…”

Conclusion:

“…Both detailing and vividness merged into one product’s performance weren’t the only prominent features of Blipo. It sounded spectacularly expansive; projected picture clear and on sheer size count unexpectedly grand. Along with agile, orderly and punchy bass, inherent clarity and informational tissue well-developed, the outcome felt effortless and fresh. Even the quietest sounds were singled out easily, but the way all instruments and vocals were shaped is what stole the show. To not sound dry is one thing, but to showcase every component in music in very much lifelike, present, majestic and direct way is a completely different story and here Blipo delivered far above initial expectations. Among many speakers auditioned in my manly cave, the only product more potent on these counts was far costlier Reflector Audio Bespoke P15, whereas Gradient Revolution and Fikus Electric P-15 were on par and everything else I’d subjectively position below. For a product with €5’000 on its price tag that’s very impressive. Although capable of even bigger imaging when properly fed, even my reference Boenicke W8 weren’t this direct in comparison….”

All pictures are courtesy of Dawid Grzyb /The Hifi Knights