High End Munich 2025 Systems - Audiovector R 10 ARRETÉ meets CH Precision M10

A three-position dial on the back panel exists specifically so the owner can tell this loudspeaker what kind of amplifier is driving it - transistor with medium damping, high-power transistor with high damping, or valve with low damping. That's the Audiovector R 10 Arreté, launched at Munich 2025 as the Danish company's new flagship after a decade under current chief Mads Klifoth, paired here with CH Precision's M10 power amplifier for a system Hifiverse credits with letting "each instrument" sit precisely "in its place."

The system at a glance

Two components, an ambitious Danish loudspeaker marking 45 years of Audiovector's family-run heritage, paired with CH Precision's most powerful current amplifier platform, priced around $165,000 for the speakers alone. The pairing revolves around a loudspeaker engineered with adjustable damping-factor matching, backed by an amplifier substantial enough to exploit whichever setting suits the room.

Why these components work together

The R 10 Arreté carries thirteen drivers per side - a pair of AMT tweeters, one standard and one extended-range, a 6.5-inch carbon-sandwich midrange, two matching lower-midrange units on the front baffle, and eight rear-facing long-throw bass drivers arranged as a line-source array, each with 12mm of linear excursion and a combined membrane area equivalent to a single 15-inch driver, but split across eight smaller units for greater speed and precision than one large cone could achieve. Rated at 90dB sensitivity into a nominal 8-ohm load with a 5-ohm minimum, the speaker's Damping Factor Dial, borrowed from Audiovector's Trapeze RI range, lets an owner match the bass system's electrical behaviour to whatever amplifier is actually connected, an unusual degree of user-adjustable impedance matching for a loudspeaker at this level. The CH Precision M10 answers with 550 watts per channel into 4 ohms and bandwidth extending to 500kHz, giving the R 10's rear-facing bass array and its adjustable damping circuit serious current reserves to draw on regardless of which dial position the room calls for, while the M10's own doubled power-supply capacity relative to CH Precision's previous flagship ensures that reserve holds up under sustained, demanding bass content.

How it sounds

Audiovector's own description of a "calm, controlled, and profoundly musical performance," achieved through the R 10's flexible damping alignment between cabinet resonance and musical energy, tracks directly with Hifiverse's own verdict of high sensitivity and wide frequency range letting every instrument sit precisely in its place, with bass adding "a fundamental foundation" rather than overwhelming the rest of the frequency range, exactly what a properly damping-matched bass array paired with the M10's substantial current reserves is engineered to deliver.