High End Munich 2025 Systems - Kroma Atelier Leonore and TechDAS Air Force IV

Synthetic stone rather than wood or MDF makes up entire cabinet here - the Kroma Atelier Leonore, a compact two-way monitor from the Spanish company's Granada workshop, is built from Krion, the same solid-surface composite material more commonly associated with countertops than loudspeaker enclosures. Paired with a TechDAS Air Force IV turntable, Hifiverse's own Munich 2025 verdict, "surprisingly detailed and transparent despite its compact size," points directly at what that unusual cabinet material does for a small monitor.

The system at a glance

Two components, a compact 18kg bookshelf speaker paired with a substantial flagship-tier Japanese turntable, a combination that deliberately pits scale against precision. The pairing sets out to show that a small stone-cabinet monitor, given a source component built to an uncompromising mechanical standard, can deliver detail retrieval that belies its modest footprint.

Why these components work together

The Leonore pairs a Mundorf AMT (air motion transformer) tweeter with a Purifi 6.5-inch mid/woofer inside its front-ported Krion enclosure, rated at 89dB sensitivity into a 4-ohm load and accepting amplifiers from 30 to 300 watts. Krion's specific advantage as a cabinet material is its density and internal damping compared with conventional MDF, meaning the enclosure itself resonates considerably less under driver excursion, letting the Purifi mid/woofer, already engineered by its Danish manufacturer for low distortion, deliver output that isn't coloured by cabinet-borne vibration the way a lighter, more resonant wooden enclosure would introduce. The Mundorf AMT tweeter's pleated diaphragm design moves air more efficiently than a conventional dome for a given diaphragm area, contributing directly to the transparency Hifiverse's own show-floor note highlights. The TechDAS Air Force IV, one step below the flagship Air Force One and V Premium in TechDAS's range, uses a single-piece platter machined from A5056 aluminium alloy instead of the composite dual-platter construction of the pricier Air Force V Premium, a simpler but still substantial mechanical foundation that gives even a compact monitor system a source built to a standard the speaker's own detail retrieval can actually reveal.

How it sounds

The pairing plays directly to what a resonance-controlled small monitor does best - with the Krion cabinet keeping self-generated coloration to a minimum and the TechDAS turntable delivering a low-noise, stable analogue signal, the Leonore can extract detail from the source material instead of adding its own cabinet character on top of it, exactly the "surprisingly detailed and transparent" character Hifiverse's Munich assessment describes for a speaker this compact.