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TriangleBorea BR03

speaker

New retail price (MSRP)

$499

Used market: $360*

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Specifications

5 of 8 values have a recorded source
System type
Passive Bookshelf·
Inputs
Binding posts✓
Minimum impedance dip
4.2✓
Sensitivity
90✓
Nominal impedance
8✓
Recommended power
25–130 W✓
Release year
2019·
Indexable Locales
en·

Expert Audio Engineering Commentary

Headroom notes

Triangle is the exception in this batch: it quotes sensitivity as 90 dB/W/m, a real one-watt reference, not 2.83 V. Everyone else here uses 2.83 V, which for their 6-ohm models is a free 1.2 dB. So the gap between this speaker and a 6-ohm rival quoted at 88 dB is larger than the printed numbers suggest, not smaller.

Amplification Warning

8 ohms nominal with a 4.2-ohm minimum — the mildest load of the 8-ohm-labelled speakers here. Combined with a genuine 90 dB/W, this is the one entry in the batch a modest integrated amplifier can drive without qualification.

Setups using this gear

90 dB/W/m against 88 dB at 2.83 V: the gap is 3.2 dB, not 2

* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~72% retained value).