AURUM RODAN

In the test:
AURUM VULCAN 9
AURUM RODAN 9
AURUM PHASE 9
AURUM ORKUS 9
AURUM BASE MAXIME 9

Goldklasse, Highlight
5 of 5 stars
Price/performance: appropriate
Hifi Vision, Edition 20/2018

Conclusion:
The quadral Aurum Rodan 9 is the smallest floorstanding speaker in the Aurum series – and reckoned to be the most graceful of these 3-way speakers. In terms of how it looks, that’s exactly right. The slim proportions, the extremely successful design and the high-quality finish ensure that this one-meter high pillar can embellish any living room. The daintiness stops when it comes to the sound: here the Rodan very impressively keeps the quadral promise to deliver unexpected bass volumes. It’s also possible thanks to the Aurum-typical pressure chamber/bass reflex construction. Almost more impressive is the impact of the aluminium ribbon tweeter: it helps the Rodan to achieve great transparency and space in its reproduction. The treble level switch also means this speaker fits acoustically into the living room. Anyone looking for a fresh sound transducer could have struck it lucky with the Aurum Rodan 9. The fact that quadral is offering a 10-year guarantee for this loudspeaker is another indicator that the next box change won’t be an issue until a long time into the future.

Overall mark: 1.2
Class: Reference class
Value for money: Good
Sound 85 %
Practicality 90 %
Spec. 90 %

Also tested: Advance Paris, Smartline BX1 and Smartlien UX1

CONCLUSION:
For some music genres, you need a chain that can get down to it! That’s exactly what this combination can do. The Aurum Rodan 9 was the rock in the surf, which was allowed to slosh up here. The two BX-2 monoblocks always provided the power. I especially liked the UX 1 because it offers so many possibilities and sounded really good. Only the app has to get better.

Price/ Performance Outstanding

Sound judgement: 96 points

AUDIO 01/17

Conclusion
The multichannel system from quadral sets the bar very high for other loudspeakers. The Vulkan 9 team produces a fantastic sound for music and film, stereo or multichannel along with winning fine and broad dynamics. And besides all that, the loudspeakers look fabulous and have a first-class spec and finish. It’s hard to express how impressed we are by this system, but we certainly place at the very top of our test list.

Read the full test here.

five Stars, reference class

CONCLUSION
The Quadral Aurum Rodan 9s are exactly what a good loudspeaker should be – accurate, detailed and free of colouration. They’II make you see even the most familiar recordings in a new light with a clarity and innate musicality few at the price can match. As such they come highly recommended. l’d urge you to give them a listen.

Conclusion:

With the Aurum Rodan 9, Quadral has created a floorstanding loudspeaker that offers excellent sound and material quality. Anyone looking for a compact floorstanding speaker with crisp bass response and high-resolution detail reproduction will find the perfect sound solution in this speaker.

Sound: very good
Practice: very good
Processing: very good

In the test:

ARGENTUM 570 Set

Conclusion:
– a subtle, precise and stress-free sound. Not least because of the excellent performance delivered by the ribbon, the sound is pleasantly clean and low in noise.

– The sound of the instruments and voices is very “catchy-logical” and “snaps into place” when listening to them, not least because of this.

– tonal neutrality with a – if you put the sound image on graph paper – at most tonal slightly discreetly tuned tweeter. If you want more (or less), you can experiment with the rear toggle switch, but this didn’t produce any more harmonious results in my experiments.

– an excellently structured, locus-sharp three-dimensionality, with an image size that does not rise too far vertically.

– a rather neutral-objective rather than luxuriant midrange, which will certainly give rise to associations with studio monitors in one or the other.

– A bass range that is astonishingly deep for the cabinet size and has a stable level, and which also draws precise contours without any problems.

– The bass is impeccable in its fine dynamics and coarse dynamics, but does not push itself into the foreground. It is in the physical nature of things that larger floorstanding loudspeakers can play even more impressive and grippingly in terms of room presence and coarse dynamics.

– a very complete sound even at low levels.

– Perfectly accurate, even if not exactly design-object processing.

AUERBACH PUBLISHER’S Reader’s Choice 2017:

RODAN 9

Rating:

3rd place

“Living music culture” – RODAN 9 guest at Audio Test magazine

Great praise reached us from the Auerbach Verlag, more precisely from the magazine Audio Test, which had our smallest AURUM booth speaker RODAN as a guest. The conclusion of the test editors: “Quadral has meticulously and meticulously raised his Aurum series excellently in the 9th generation to a level which they themselves call “R9volution”. Especially on the tested model RODAN 9 we can certify that a lot of attention to detail and intelligent engineering art Made in Germany have led to a product that deserves this self-confident title.”

The result of the test: 92% EXCELLENT

To be read in the Audio Test, issue 08/2016