Wildhorn MKII
Size Matters!
Wildhorn
Bastanis Wildhorn
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Bastanis Wildhorn
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Gemini MKII horn- tweeter
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The Bastanis Wildhorn MKII loudspeakers can be the more clever alternative. The Bastanis Wildhorn MKII speakers are compact looking and so they are visually easy to integrate in most listening rooms, fulfilling even the most sophisticated audiophile demands. It has never been possible before to dive so deeply into the world of music in so easy and simple! The Bastanis Wildhorn MKII speakers set a new quality standard in the world of passive loudspeakers – by efficient minimalism and an uncompromising quest for sonic perfection. The Bastanis Wildhorn speakers turn the standard market price structure upside down and open up completely new perspectives.
The Bastanis Wildhorn MKII speakers offer the same qualities as the Wildhorn MKI speakers but they come with the Bastanis Gemini MKII tweeters which increase the clean, detailed and smooth response of the Bastanis Gemini MKI tweeters in a full step up. The sound of the Bastanis Wildhorn MKII speakers in comparison is even more detailed and more natural.
Many years of experience and the ability to find elegant working solutions beyond the „iron laws“ of speaker- building combined with the traditional handcrafting methods let the door open more wide. The 12“ fullrange drivers offer superior dynamics and transient response due to their large sound-emitting surface. Our unique process of cone- treatments allows the fullrange speaker direct coupling to the power amp for best control and without any parts downgrading the quality of the signal path. To simplify the most complexed requirements enables the Bastanis Wildhorn MKII speakers to offer superb detail for instant „live“ music feeling. The Bastanis Wildhorn MKII speakers cabinet- design is based on self- regulating floor- firing backloaded basshorns. This cabinet- design offers unique dynamics, clean and fundamental basses for large and also smaller listening rooms from 16 m² on. The area of the virtual horn mouth chamber varies and adjusts the bass response independently of the room and the placement. The basses are extremely clean and dynamic, even if they does not quite reach the extreme performance of the bigger diameter 15“ wideband drivers Bastanis Matterhorn MKII speakers. The enormous efficiency of 100 dB / 1 W / 1 m, the smooth impedance curve and the low demand for electrical damping from the amplifier provide optimal conditions for fly- powered Single-Ended tube amplifiers. If the full dynamic range of the Bastanis Wildhorn MKII speakers is to be exploited and a powerful amplifier is connected the Bastanis Wildhorn MKII speakers happily produce max. dynamics which you remember from big professional speakers only.
- Midrange colouration from cone break up is absent.
- The ultra high efficiency of 100 dB/1W/1m and the crossoverless design offers direct coupling of the wideband drivers to the power amp.
- The floor- firing basshorn- design offers superior bass- response with extremly dynamic, detailed and fundamental performance.
- The Bastanis Gemini MKII dipole tweeters are a class of their own.
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Specifications | |
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Drivers |
1,4" dipole horn- tweeter |
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Efficicency |
100dB/1W/1m@8Ohm |
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Power handling |
400W (AES) |
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Dimensions |
121 x 31 x 35 |
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Weight |
35kg per speaker |
(…) resolution was very good, almost to the point of headphone levels.
(..) I found the mid-range to be fast and articulate with a very live and realistic sound.
(..) Treble is excellent and totally governed by the quality of the recording and rest of the system in use.
(..) laying the hit “Rock and Roll Woman“, the energy of that era came back to me. I was a teenager again, these songs burnt to memory. Unlike a number of very high-efficiency speakers, the Wildhorns don’t sacrifice the body of notes to give you this immaculate transient performance. The acoustic rhythm guitar at the beginning of this cut sounded very natural and had good decay. Stephen Stills’ lead vocal had startling presence and clarity and all of the harmony vocals could be heard in their distinct space on the stage. A lot of old hippies would be shocked to hear this the way I heard it through the Wildhorns with the Tron. I played it for a number of visitors and they all really enjoyed it.
(..) Vocals, strings and saxophone in particular stood out as being extremely natural. The naturalness of the sound was helped in no small way by the smoothness of the mid-range, for this level of detail I would have expected the occasional hint of “too much truth” to come through; it didn’t. .
(..) The mid-range does manage share an important quality with open baffle speakers, a lack of boxiness.
. (..)I can confidently state that with the right amp, the Wildhorns will project a huge and alive soundstage that is very involving. This is a major appeal which drew me to Bastanis speakers in the first place. In fact, here they exceed every other speaker I have heard, barring perhaps some well set-up horn speakers (which seem to be a rarity). Dynamics, soundstaging and detail are up there with the best.
(..) If there is sparkle to the music you get it, there’s no artificial brightness or problematic harshness. Any vocal sibilance is deftly handled, it’s not covered up and it is rendered in a natural manner. Soaring female vocal and trumpets had me worried but I was needlessly concerned, rarely am I so much at ease with such a detailed and live sound.
(..) All the music I fed the Triumphs with was reproduced with aplomb. Vocals and instruments alike are incredibly lifelike and placed precisely within a large virtual stage. Complex orchestral passages (yes even I do classical) are relaxed with clear musical structure and stable imaging whether it’s with quiet passages or at high levels with massive dynamics. This level of performance probably results from delicacy being preserved by the crossoverless highly efficient wideband drivers coupled the fabulous dynamics of horn bass. The Zugspitz Triumph are relaxed yet dynamic, reproducing music with seemingly a total absence of compression. Vocals and instruments are free of coloration and highs are delightfully extended. I found the bass to resemble what I hear from very large horn speakers which display tremendous resolution and dynamics but here we have the benefit sensibly sized speakers that work in normal rooms and normal listening positions. My lasting impression is of the speakers sounding very natural and alive, even vivacious. They reproduce a lot of detail but not in a way that is at all forced, which is why they sound so natural.