Floorstanding loudspeakers — Raidho Acoustics X2t

The Raidho Acoustics X2t is a slender floorstanding speaker from the Danish brand's X series, which Raidho positions as offering extreme performance for the money. It replaces the earlier X2 and was inspired directly by the X1t monitor first shown at the 2022 Munich show. Its signature ribbon tweeter is almost identical to the one fitted to the TD6, a Raidho model that costs more than ten times as much.

Key specs that matter

This is a 2.5-way bass-reflex design with a nominal impedance of 8 ohms, rated at 50W nominal and 80W maximum. Two 5.25-inch ceramic bass/midrange drivers work together in the bass, but the midrange is reproduced by the top one alone, and the crossover to the tweeter sits at 3.4kHz. The ribbon uses an ultra-thin 11-micron foil, fifty times lighter than a conventional dome membrane, and extends to 82kHz. With its feet the cabinet measures 300 x 1065 x 490mm, and each speaker weighs just under 23kg.

Engineering and use context

Both cones now carry a tantalum coating. Tantalum is a refractory metal that melts at 2,996 degrees C, and the coating leaves the diaphragm considerably harder and more rigid at no cost in mass, pushing the breakup mode up to 15kHz, far above the crossover point. The ribbon tweeter is an entirely Danish in-house design. Voice coils are wound with titanium rather than aluminium or copper to avoid magnetic induction effects. Raidho regards the coherent arrangement, with one driver carrying the midrange from top to bottom, as a hallmark of its floorstanding models. Internal wiring is Nordost cable with Norse technology, the same conductor used in Nordost's Valhalla range, run point-to-point by hand. The cabinet narrows toward the rear to suppress internal standing waves, and decoupling is built into metal-ball feet instead of conventional spikes.

Pairing

The modest nominal power rating means the X2t is easy to drive despite its unusual drivers, so it works with a broad range of amplifiers and makes no unusual current demands.

Alternatives

Within the same family, the X2t 25th Anniversary Edition is the Raidho floorstander to compare against this standard version.