High End Munich 2025 Systems - Alsyvox MICHELANGELO!

A radiating surface of nearly 30 square feet per panel and no dynamic driver anywhere in the design - the Alsyvox Michelangelo is what happens when a full-range ribbon-planar loudspeaker company decides to build a genuine flagship, and Hifiverse spotlighted it from the Munich 2025 show floor for combining "impressive power and pressure while maintaining the accuracy of details."

The system at a glance

One component, an enormous 2.03-metre-tall, three-panel design weighing 270kg per channel before its 70kg outboard crossovers, and a price around $458,000 per pair. This entry captures the loudspeaker that dominated its Munich room, a build-to-order flagship from the Spanish ribbon-planar specialist rather than a complete assembled electronics chain.

Why these components work together

The Michelangelo uses no conventional dynamic drivers at all - a central panel houses five ribbon elements, two 45mm midranges, two 25mm tweeters and a 9mm super-tweeter, flanked by two dedicated 320mm-wide ribbon-planar woofer panels, all operating as first-order crossover sections at 250Hz, 1,250Hz and 4,800Hz. That configuration, effectively a doubled version of Alsyvox's already-acclaimed Caravaggio, pushes sensitivity to 96-98dB depending on crossover adjustment, an unusually high figure for planar technology, while extending frequency response down to a flat 18Hz, a bass reach ribbon-planar designs have historically struggled to achieve given the format's typically limited excursion. Alsyvox's own designer has been explicit that a system of this scale is intended specifically for very large rooms, describing it as suited to "a ballroom" instead of a conventional domestic listening space, and the panel's combined 2.6-square-metre emission surface is precisely what makes that scale of room fillable without the compression or strain smaller planar designs exhibit when pushed hard. Because the design demands serious amplifier current, the electronics driving it at the show were paired to exploit that high sensitivity rather than merely tolerate the ribbon panels' typically low impedance.

How it sounds

Independent reviewers who have heard the Michelangelo and its smaller Caravaggio sibling describe an open, airy presentation with an exceptionally large soundstage, fast, detailed bass response for a ribbon-based design, and dynamics that surprised listeners because ribbon-planar technology at this scale isn't expected to deliver this level of impact, tracking closely with Hifiverse's own "power and pressure" verdict from the show floor.