Three watts is officially all the Tune Audio Anima needs, and history at successive high-end shows backs that figure up - this all-horn Greek loudspeaker has been driven by amplifiers as modest as a single-ended 300B triode putting out barely 16 watts, and Hifiverse's own Munich 2025 verdict, "excellent linearity and sound neutrality," describes exactly what that combination of extreme sensitivity and horn engineering is built to deliver.
The system at a glance
One component, an enormous 109dB sensitivity rating, a nominal 8-ohm impedance, and a design that requires no more than 3 watts per channel to play at real-world volumes. This entry captures the Anima itself as the defining component of its Munich room, a flagship horn loudspeaker rather than a fully catalogued multi-brand electronics chain.
Why these components work together
The Anima is a complete horn design across all three drive units, not merely a horn-loaded tweeter bolted onto a conventional cone woofer the way many "horn speakers" actually work - a 1-inch titanium-diaphragm compression tweeter with a neodymium magnet sits in a small proprietary-epoxy horn, a 5-inch in-house-developed midrange driver loads a substantial Baltic-birch-plywood horn, and a 15-inch woofer fires downward through a horn structure that doubles as the speaker's own cabinet, all crossed at first order with no class D modules, DSP or servo assistance anywhere in the low-frequency path. That combination pushes overall sensitivity to a rare 109dB, meaning every 3dB reduction in amplifier power roughly halves the volume the speaker produces, so an amplifier most competing loudspeakers would consider a decorative accessory, a 10 to 20-watt single-ended-triode design, is already more than sufficient headroom for the Anima at typical listening levels. This is precisely why the Anima recurs so often at shows paired with low-power tube amplifiers from brands including WAVAC and Trafomatic Audio, since the loudspeaker's own horn-loading efficiency does the work that a conventional dynamic loudspeaker would otherwise demand from amplifier wattage.
How it sounds
Reviewers across successive shows describe a consistent character - an expansive, effortlessly dynamic presentation with genuine bass extension down to around 40Hz despite the horn-loaded woofer's typically steeper low-frequency rolloff, and a midrange many listeners single out as the system's particular strength, all delivered with the sense of ease that only comes from a loudspeaker this efficient never straining against amplifier limitations, the "linearity and neutrality" Hifiverse's own Munich assessment highlights
1 component
- Floorstanding loudspeakers
Anima
by Tune Audio
According to the manufacturer, these speakers are "truly horn speakers." 1", 5" and 15" drivers with neodymium magnets were used, great attention was paid to the multilayer housing. The sensitivity of the system reaches a record 109 dB, the acoustics can operate with a gain of 3 watts per channel.