Occasionally, some of you complained about the lack of articulation of my voice in videos. I hope it's better this time around with a brand-new and higher-quality microphone. Thank you for being here and providing me with constructive criticism. 🥂

Such a great friend to send you these speakers to review. We all thank you and the sender for making this fantastic video possible.

Every reviewer that I held up high has praised Arendal and I have started to covet a pair of 1723. I have gone from stand-mounts to high (92 dB) sensitive floor-standers and I'm probably not going to turn back. The dynamics and the "live" feeling the big speakers gives me is pleasure to experience. Small ones can sound fantastic and when they do you want more! but they can't give you more 😞 As iiWi said here, high sensitive floor stand speakers have the ability to sound great at low listening levels making them excellent for home cinema/TV as well. After a lot of reading and youtube watching about the Arendal I came to the same conclusion as iiWi - this is a pair of speakers you can build your system around. Time to get the instant noodle diet going and save up for a pair.

Oh baby, these Arendal's were already on my radar. After watching your review it sounds like they belong in my house!

Hi everyone and many thx to Srboljub for willingness to review these speakers. Btw, I am soontomeetfriendownerofthespeakers and here are couple of additional things which some of you may find interesting about Arendals. The cabinets are made from HDF (high pressure dencity), not MDF boards, so that is why they are quite heavy and sturdy. As for the looks, I agree that there were no Italian designers involved, but on the other hand, they have grills with magnets, which is a nice touch. I personally bought them because I have a big room and these speakers are supposed to shine with more air. People from Arendal suggested to use good class D amplifier for some additional strength, which I will most probably do with LSA WARP 1. Having that in mind, I noticed that you have new DAC and preamp from Acoustic Invader on your rack. These look fantastic and I am sure they sound great, but way above my budget at the moment. Talking about budgeting, Arendal is not clear about shipping at their webpage, which means additional 380 € for DHL as Serbia is not a part of EU, and 10% more for custom fee as they were not made in Norway, but in China. Nobody can be sure if they are going to be satisfied or not, but it is worth to try, especially because there is a 60 days return policy, if you don't like them. Furthermore, I would like to try build a system around these speakers using R2R dac, especially Audio GD R-28, RME Adi-2 fs or Gustard x26 pro. Have a great day everyone. Radomir (one more similar sounding LOTR characters).

Ive had both the 1723 s bookshelves and the 1723 s monitors. The monitors definitely had better bass. Both sounded fabulous.

Thank you for your review. You always do such a great job on your reviews. I aways feel your reviews are honest and detailed on how things sounds.

Inspiring review; these went to the top of my shortlist! :)

Finally a reviewer who willing to bluntly say they don't care if the viewer don't believe in cable! Thanks man someone has to say it 👍

I love your reviews . They honest and most helpful .

I don't have much to add to the conversation as such, but I just wanted to say thank you for another brilliant review! 😁😁😁

Amazing review! I'm sold on the 1723 THX towers, and plan to pick them up this year.

One of the things that fascinates me is how many of us went from exclusive floor-standing speaker listeners, to exclusive- or near-exclusive stand-mount speaker listeners. There were great stand-mount speakers a generation ago and a lot of us never heard any of them on principle.

You are such a great reviewer. I enjoy your style.

I have the 1723 THX Monitors (my preference) and SVS subwoofer. My search is over for speakers as for me they are superb in every way. Arendal themselves have said in an Audioholics video, if you have a good subwoofer the Monitors are a better bargain. Keep in mind, the monitors and floor standers are THX Ultra certified so either version will play louder than your ears can withstand.

Excellent review! Your rationale for buying stand mounts over floor standers is exactly the same as mine. The only floor stander I ended up keeping in my room are Magnepans.

GREAT REVIEW! Articulate, descriptive, and informative. Your English is exceptional and I wish I spoke a second language as well as you. (Heck, I wish I spoke English as well as you!)

Good review as usual

Very nice job with your review.

Thank you. I've been looking at these.

Absolutely top review! Very 👍🏻

Thank you so much for reviewing these speakers. I''m personally interested in the monitor version of these. Different speakers, I know...but this gives me some perspective. Wondering if they might actually image better than the towers? Such a great review, as always!

I have the 1723 S Towers with one of the two rear ports plugged. They are very revealing speakers and you will love them as I do.

Thank you for your honest review on these speakers. I have to say your review is 100% accurate. I am now in my 5th day of getting these speakers replacing my R700's. I really do think the R700's are a fantastic speaker but I think these are are very good improvement. You are correct the 1723 are very revealing with great imaging and separation but really smooth and juicy not bright. I find everything you describe is what I am hearing. NO SUB NEEDED is one of the most important factors when I am shopping for speakers. I am using Mcintosh tub pre and Mcintosh solid state amp. I am truly hearing things in the recording I did not hear before but it's not bright or fatiguing. Thank you for your review on these speakers.

thank you for another great one, would it be possible for you to start posting in video description all songs/tracks mentioned ? there is a lot of good music to discover in your reviews

this is the most enthusiastic review of the sound quality of all other reviews ive watched . the other reviews emphasized the build quality but said polite but unexcited things about the sound . even this review as good as he is at vocalizing the subtle , did not seem to be all that excited about the bass or the soundstage . However, still on my Go And Listen List .

I have always wonder how my Arendal speakers stack up against KEF R or Focal Aria. You covered both! Thank you so much! Now I can sleep soundly at night knowing I didn't make a bad decision haha.

So I’m considering a home theater overhaul, and my budget for the front towers is about 3k. Right now the top three on my list due to imaging, soundstage, and neutrality are the Arendal THX S, the KEF R11(non-meta 2800$), and the Q Acoustics Concept 50. I like the Q Acoustics Aesthetically, but like that the other 2 have actual bass extension below 40hz for the same money. Unfortunately there’s no way to audition towers without spending hundreds on return costs, so I’m kind of at a loss.

I'm looking at these, the martin logan xt f100, not sure if a 3 way is better? But I like the horn style wave guide tweeter that the logan has, pluss its 3 way

Hello, nice review. What do you think about this arendal vs Klipsch speakers?

Thanks for the review. Matches my experience with the Arendals. Compared them to KEF R3 Meta, B&W 702 S2 and 705 S3, SVS Prime Pinnacles, Polk R700 and KLH Kendall’s in my listening room. Went with the Arendals and I’m very happy with my decision.

Hi Srboljub. Shipping is free only to Europe and Continental US+Canada. Everywhere else shipping is quite expensive, as I found out when trying to order the 1723 S THX monitors to the Caribbean. Arendal quoted a US $800 charge (for a pair of $1,999 monitors) for shipping using DHL, so I had to desist. Thanks for your thorough review.

Matori, odradio si bas lep prikaz Arendala. Ja sam se skoro zainteresovao za ovog proizvodjača jer sam uvideo da im je kvalitet izrade iznad proseka u klasi. Hvala ti na trudu. Pozz

🙏THANKS SRBOLJUB, I ENJOYED THE WHOLE VIDEO AND SEEING YOU BRANCH OUT ,helping others make important decisions and proving that this is THE BEST TIME TO BE AN AUDIOPHILE 🤗💚💚💚

Ive noticed that any tweeter with a deep wave guide always has a forward sound, even with paper tweeters. These speakers have gotten some really good reviews overall, I would be interested to try the smaller version of these. They are bookshevles but huge, almost like a tower

Thanks for the music! Light Years is nice…and RATCHET UP THE BASS! DAMN!!! 🔈🔉🔊 😀

I have the 1723 S monitors and will be keeping these for a long time.

Just got My Pair I am blown away how much every track I play is more alive and full bodied I’m thinking of getting The R2R Gustard R26 to expand the deft and scale of the sound stage what do you think about that pairing ?

Excellent

I love your honoust reviews! I currently own silver 300 7g and am looking to maybe upgrade to arendal 1723s which you obviously think is a really good speaker. Do you think that is a big step up? In whay way? Thanks a lot! 0:02 0:02

Earned a sub.+like! Thank you!

Nice looking speakers. Any experience with kirksaeter?

I really want the THX center channel, but unfortunately my media cabinet is too tall to accommodate anything taller than 8” without obstructing the TV screen, and I have the TV mounted as high as I am comfortable viewing. I’m wondering if that super deep waveguide will fix the horizontal off axis issues with 2-way MTM center designs.

As usual you always describe things on a whole different level. Will be ordering the “S” version of these towers soon!

Hello Srboljub and Radomir. I thank you both for making this video possible. I thought I had my end-game figured out, but this review has given me something to think about. I have been saving for years and I'm going to buy myself my end-game system soon. I was thinking about Elysian 2/4, but now I think I am going to add these Arendale towers/monitors into the mix. I watched your review on Acoustic Invader AMP/DAC and I wanted to get that stack for my next speakers, but I see you used R26 instead. Does that mean R26 is a better paring for them? Do you have any other suggestions (should I get a preamp too for example)? I have no experience with different cables, but I will get those cables you suggested too, just in case. :) Please help your brother from Republika Srpska to build his system "for life". Thank you! :D

I have a Denafrips Ares 2, Hegel H190, iFi Zen Stream and plan to get Arendal 1723s soon, although I ordered SVS Prime Pinnacle for an audio trial. These SVS are half the price, but I think I'll be tempted by the Arendal given your review and that of Jay Iyagi, like that of Audioholics keeping the sound and pleasure of listening must take precedence over everything! Keep up the great work!

An MTM tower speaker *used* to be fairly common. But for what ever reason, tower speakers of any sort are less numerous these days. I tend to prefer tower speakers - you can get more bass extension in the same/similar footprint. The main feature of the MTM (aka D'Appolito) is the two midrange drivers have vertical cancellations, that prevent some early reflections off the floor and/or ceiling.

How did they compare to your reference Spirit Wind in overall satisfaction ?

I want to thank you with respect to your comments about cables I went and buy the Atlas interconnect that you recommended and that made a fantastic changein my system so I changed all my generic cables including AC power cables with atlas brand .Thanks again for your suggestion.

Which cables would you use for these speakers ? :). I am interested, because i just bought them and i want to optimize them as much as possible :)

As fas as dacs, I'd have to A/B them in my listening room to evaluate whether your recommended $1700 r2r dac is worth the upgrade over my $110 Sanskrit 2.

@ 9:40, Personally I cant wait to hear your thoughts on Cables. I would think your experience would be a valuable addition.

I have those, great speaker

Has anyone had a chance to audition the Bentley Acoustics R-Line towers or their other models ? They seem like great 3 way speakers and their affordable.

Now I am torn between these Arendals and the new Martin Logan towers.

Is this better then Klipsch RF82 II?

What would be the pros and cons in using these in a home studio for mixing?

I guess there will be no extra costs within the EU as they are from Norway which is in the EER. They also handle VAT for UK and US their website says. But their may be additional import tariffs for these countries.

What is the tube DAC you mentioned? Are there plans for it somewhere? How do you like it?

I was just wondering if you ever had magnepan speakers in youre set up?

My next purchase!

Got the 1723 monitors with the matching center arriving soon..hope it lives up to the hype

Hi, what is your room size, in which the listening session was conducted ?

You mentioned that u built your own tube dac. Did I miss your video on that or is that something that you will discuss in future ?

Better than Buchart ?

Thank you very much for the video, how about the LADDER Bach?.

zdravo. how do these compare to the polk r700 or klipsch rp 8000f ii?

I do not know who holds the credit of the design but these are like the bigger brother of the Elsinore speakers. I built the mtm version of them and they sound really beautiful.

9:35... Go get em!

how would this compare to a Dali Rubicon 8? wish you would have included a listening demo in this review❓I'm surprised this company sent them out to many utuber audiophiles to review without wanting them to do a sound demo...

I love your honoust reviews! I currently own silver 300 7g and am looking to maybe upgrade to arendal 1723s which you obviously think is a really good speaker. Do you think that is a big step up? In whay way? Thanks a lot!

@iiWiReviews one last question, do you think the 1723 or the 1723s monitors on stands supporter by a subwoofer will have more holographic depth and imaging than the floorstanders, or are they still to big? And would the s or normal version be preferred? Last q, do you think they will give me the more detailed and transparent sound that I am looking for compared to my monitor audio silver series?

The anger control issues comment was on point AF! One question on these though. How are they with crappy old rock and roll recordings? I find that certain gear makes it unlistenable. Like the Eigentakt amp for instance. I had to send it back unfortunately. Because it only sounded good on great recordings unfortunately. Thank you for all you do. ✌️

After watching your review i am not supriced arendal is that good. Becouse i own 1723 1s subwoofer not boomy just well controlled and tight

Agreed audiophiles have anger issues when it comes to cables 🤣🤣

Waiting for your review about topping E70 Velvet with L70 combination for headphone stack. Please compare it with d30 pro stack and also E70 ess stack. Thank you brother.

I am planning to get Arendal 1723 tower s. I run b&w 702 s2 but i think i need a speaker that can handle a lot of pressure but at same time have good sound quality. Use one of their subs Arendal 1723 1s its high end sound. Not planning to replace the b&w just want another speaker for different listening purpuses

I just believe this guy. He comes across as very legit.

I have Paradigm Founder 120H. Check them out.

It's with speakers as with wine. Some people believe they hear quality... or claim they taste quality. And the more expensive the speaker or the wine is... the better it sounds... or taste. It's a subjective way to convince themselves, they are experts and have the in depended abilities to decide, what's the empirical truth............😇

hope can find a high value Chinese brand "diamond in the rough"" speaker

Maybe you should do a speaker cable blind test...?

There is no replacement for displacement

It'd be nice if you could get your hands on the just released Mofi speakers designed by Andrew Jones. They retail at USD3700. Thanks!

Thanx as usual !! Your English is really impressive in terms of your use of the Right Descritive terms ! How about trying the Triangle Bro8 or Antal 40th Anniversary ?!? Finally, you are the NoVax Joke a Bitch of KZfaq HiFiers!!

Let me help you with my solution to expensive full size speakers. You are accustomed to softer, unnatural bass with bookshelf speakers. It is my experience that 15" paper woofers make full, natural base. Even my 4' towers with dual 6.5" speakers have unnatural base. The average kick drum is around 22" diameter. My active subs don't sound natural either. I bought used Marantz speakers ($75) with 15" woofers and disconnected the tweeters and mids. My Emotiva BasX has a high pass switch (I think around 100 hz) and it sends lows to sub out RCAs. I plug in an Aiyima A07 to power the woofers, thus have tone control. With this setup, you can plug in any bookshelf speakers and place them the same as before. I use Danish Triad Bronze LCR MTMs because I found them for $100.

I Really wanted to buy the Arendal 1723 Towers and centre channel but when I put them in the cart I realised two things, on top of the cart price I would likely pay 10% GST Goods and Services Tax plus potentially an importation tax (though I don't think so, I will check) and Arendal wanted $1,530 AUD for shipping charge to Australia. That would mean a minimum of $7000 AUD and I don't know how the Arendal trio would compare to speakers of a similar value bought within Australia. Having said that, your review is making me think maybe these Arendal speakers are not only comparative with commercial branded speakers of that price range but they sound much less of a risk given I'm not able to physically go and hear any speakers I'm considering buying? Cost comparison for locally bought options, plus up to $300 delivery all in $ AUD: JBL HDI 3600 Floorstanding Speakers $8,000. Monitor Audio Gold 200 5G Floorstanding Speakers $6,899.00. KEF R5 Meta Floorstanding Speakers $7,000.00 (currently ex-display option $5,600) What do you think?

Hello many people are waiting for the new FiiO K7 review. when will you do it ? thank you

My tweeters sounded a bit rolled off so I was thinking how I might improve them. I had been in the "cables don't matter camp" but I thought I'd give it a shot. Sam Ash had 100 foot of 14 gauge professional speaker wire for $75 and 8 banana plugs were $25. Previously, I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken. This time I was completely wrong. News flash, pro wires are better than lamp cord. It was as if I added an additional dac just to the tweeters. They were no longer rolled off, more detailed, spacious, and transparent. Shocking. Since I bi-amp my speakers, the gauge is fine. I might go with 12 gauge for a single wire. I am so happy.

arendal is too rich for me, but magnat i got the same sound for whole lot less

Bravo Srbine imas dobre zvucnike.

Ahhhh ! Good....another year or two then you'll be into the truth, high sensibility speakers with low power tubes amp !

WITH THE MUSIC SOURCE BEING KZfaq, OR INTERNET RADIO, OR SPOTIFY ETC SERVICES - I DO NOT KNOW HOW MANY CAN PROVIDE EVEN CD QUALITY - ALL THESE HI FI STUFF IS SILLY...IF PEOPLE SPEND SAY 5000 $ OR EURO OR POUNDS - THEY SHOULD SPEND AT LEAST 5000 MORE ON MUSIC, CDs, SACDs ETC... I WONDER HOW MANY ACTUALLY DO THAT

Isn’t Arendal in the Lord of the Rings 😀

Thanks! I haven't watched it, but you always deserve at least coffee!

Kako je moguće doći do ovih zvučnika? Na njihovom sajtu ne postoji opcija isporuke za Srbiju.

Finally not a dac