Two Dynaudio 30W100 bass drivers, mounted face-to-face in a sealed isobaric compartment rather than firing conventionally into the room, are what let this cabinet reach deep, powerful bass without needing a correspondingly enormous enclosure. This is the EgglestonWorks Andra III SE, paired here with EMM Labs electronics for a Munich 2025 room Hifiverse credited with the feeling of "being present at a live concert."
The system at a glance
One component, the Special Edition version of EgglestonWorks's long-running Andra III, a design lineage the American manufacturer has continuously refined since the original Andra's debut decades ago. The Andra III SE led this Munich presentation, paired with EMM Labs's Canadian digital electronics.
Why these components work together
The Andra III SE uses a Dynaudio Esotar tweeter, a driver widely regarded among the finest and most expensive available anywhere, for the top end, a pair of 6-inch Morel carbon-fibre-cone midrange drivers handling the crucial vocal and instrumental range, and the isobaric Dynaudio 30W100 bass configuration, where two identical woofers work into a shared sealed sub-enclosure, effectively halving the working air volume each driver needs to move against and lowering the system's resonant frequency without requiring the larger cabinet a single driver of equivalent bass extension would demand. Rated at 88dB sensitivity into an 8-ohm load, the Andra lineage has built its decades-long reputation specifically on massive, inert cabinet construction, independent measurement of earlier Andra models found the enclosure walls essentially free of audible resonance even under demanding review conditions, letting the isobaric bass section's deep output stay controlled rather than smeared by cabinet-borne vibration. The SE designation itself reflects a line-wide upgrade package EgglestonWorks applies across its range - improved crossover components, upgraded internal wiring and binding posts, and a refined paint-finishing process, changes aimed at extracting more from an already well-regarded design instead of a fundamental redesign.
How it sounds
Independent reviewers have consistently praised the Andra series for a massive, wide soundstage with precise image placement and a neutral midband bookended by sweet, extended highs, describing the design's ongoing success as owing to what it does well instead of any single standout feature, a character that tracks directly with Hifiverse's own Munich verdict of a sophisticated, high-quality system delivering the sensation of a live concert and revealing fresh detail in familiar recordings.
1 component
- Floorstanding loudspeakers
Andra III SE
To create a first-class sound reproduction, the developers used 5 high-quality drivers organized in a very interesting scheme. The high frequencies are represented by the Dynaudio Esotar inch tweeter, which is currently one of the best and most expensive in the world, the mid frequencies by a pair of 6-inch Morel drivers with carbon fiber diffusers, and the low frequencies by a pair of Dynaudio 30W100 installed in a separate compartment according to the isobaric load principle, which allows for powerful and deep bass with very small own the dimensions of the cabinet.