Aarka

Rethm's Aarka is an active stand mounted loudspeaker that sounds like a floor stander despite being a monitor speaker. Our first and foremost priority whenever we design any speaker, obviously, is the quality of reproduction, and how close we can get it to sounding like real, live music with all its nuances.

However, with the Aarka, Rethm took a new direction, and decided to make it a product that would appeal to not just audiophiles, but to ordinary music lovers who want an extremely simple system. Hence, all one would need to play beautiful music in your home, in addition to a pair of speakers, is one single box: an all-in-one “DAC/server/preamp”.

Being practicing Architects, aesthetics is an equally important priority for us. These speakers have been designed to look beautiful in any living spaces, with the option to change the finish of the side panels whenever one chooses to.

Specifications

Each enclosure contains the following:

Driver configuration:
• 1 no. 5 in. Wideband driver in front.
• 2 x 6 in. Bass drivers at the back.

Electronics configuration:
• 1 amp. for bass drivers: 95 wpc. class AB solid state amp
• 1 amp for wideband driver: 25 wpc hybrid amplifier with FET output and tube driver stage. Tube used as driver is 6H6P

Rear control panel has the following:
• Power on/off switch
• Internal amplifier bypass switch
• Level control
• Crossover filter control
• RCA input socket for line level signal
• Banana sockets for speaker level inputs
• Power input socket.

Size:
• 8..3 in. (21.1 cm) Wide
• 17.71 in. (45 cm) Deep
• 18.66 in. (47.4cm) High
Weight: 15 kg (33 lbs) Each
Speaker sensitivity: 94 dB/w/m
Minimum recommended amplification:5 wpc

 
 
Rethm Aarka Loudspeakers FRENCH review in the Tendances Electroniques & Design, Magazine HiFi 

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Finishes

Trishna

The Trishna uses the smallest of our premium range of custom designed and manufactured wide-banders that takes midrange and treble reproduction to a higher level of realism. The bass module uses a Hypex UCD digital amp module.

It is extremely compact and is therefore ideal for smaller spaces, providing the listener with a full spectrum, dynamic and realistic performance that belies its size.

The salient distinguishing character that is common to all Rethm Loudspeakers..... is its ability to reproduce all the nuance of music with detail, dynamics, transparency – with zero listener fatigue.

Specifications

Each enclosure contains the following:

Driver configuration:
• 1 no. 5 in. Wideband driver in front
• 4 x 6 in. Bass drivers in isobaric configuration

Electronics configuration:
• 1 amp. for bass drivers: 180 WPC @ 8ohms. Hypex UCD digital amp

Rear control panel has the following:
• Power on/off switch
• Level control
• Crossover filter control
• Banana sockets for speaker level inputs
• Power input socket.

Size:
• 9.5 in. (24 cm) Wide
• 17.75 in. (45 cm) Deep
• 39.5 in. (100cm) High

• Weight: 20 kg (44 lbs) Each
• Speaker sensitivity: 96 dB/w/m
• Minimum recommended amplification: 3 WPC

Finishes

Maarga

The bigger sibling to the Trishna, it uses a bigger wide-band driver from our stable of custom drivers, and so too a more powerful Hypex amplifier module. Being bigger in every way, The Maarga is the model at the sweet-spot if one is looking for a balance between performance, size, and price. Despite its high level of detail, transparency and dynamics, the Maarga is a great example of the Rethm Hallmark -- of being totally relaxed to listen to, with “zero fatigue”.

Specifications

Each enclosure contains the following:

Driver configuration:
• 1 no. 6 in. Wideband driver in front
• 4 x 7 in. Bass drivers in isobaric configuration

Electronics configuration:
• 1 amp. for bass drivers: 400 wpc.@ 8ohms. Hypex UCD digital amp.

Rear control panel has the following:
• Power on/off switch
• Level control
• Crossover filter control
• Banana sockets for speaker level inputs
• Power input socket.

Size:
• 10 in. (26 cm) Wide
• 20 in. (50 cm) Deep
• 42.25 in. (107.5cm) High

• Weight: 20 kg (44 lbs) Each
• Speaker sensitivity: 98 dB/w/m
• Minimum recommended amplification: 2 wpc

Finishes

Saadhana

Currently our biggest model, it is “bigger” only because it has to be bigger to sound better. There is no getting around the laws of physics. It uses our biggest custom-made wideband driver.

Again, bigger drivers just sound better and more natural.

The bass uses a 4-driver isobaric configuration that produces outstanding bass that is deep, precise, and powerful. The Saadhana is a no-compromise loudspeaker and provides the demanding listener with the best that Rethm is capable of providing its music lovers with. Tonality, transparency, macro and micro dynamics, detail, imaging.....all within a relaxed naturalness that is seldom heard in audio. ”Zero fatigue” is the defining characteristic of all Rethms.

Specifications

Each enclosure contains the following:

Driver configuration:
• 1 no. 7 in. Wideband driver in front
• 4 x 8 in. Bass drivers in isobaric configuration

Electronics configuration:
• 1 amp. for bass drivers: 400 WPC @ 8ohms. Hypex UCD digital amp

Rear control panel has the following:
• Power on/off switch
• Level control
• Crossover filter control
• Banana sockets for speaker level inputs
• Power input socket

Size:
• 11.25 in. (28.5 cm) Wide
• 23.5 in. (60 cm) Deep
• 47 in. (120cm) High

• Weight: 30 kg (66 lbs) Each
• Speaker sensitivity: 100 dB/w/m
• Minimum recommended amplification: 2 WPC