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Unreservedly high-end: The speaker’s profound, room-filling sound makes up a perfect symbiosis with its extravagant look and excellent finish. The VULKAN VII presents itself as a loudspeaker in top form for the enormously demanding audio aesthete.
Masterpiece Loudspeaker, High-end Category
Value for money: 
+ Extreme volume reserves
+ Immense spatial effect
+ Depth of the highest level
+ Excellent sonic definition
+ Outstanding coarse and fine dynamics
+ Extremely pleasant characteristic even after long listening sessions
+ Virtually non-problematic where positioning is concerned
+ High-grade materials selected with the greatest of care
"... Very exciting reading, impressive coarse and fine dynamics, it delivers an immense sonic volume and is at home with practically any style of music. …
Even the highest volumes can be optimally realized without any problem in listening rooms of over 50 m2. The various dynamic leaps in Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”, made for enormous listening enjoyment. Without any effort whatsoever, the VULKAN generated a multifaceted, differentiated, room-filling sound impression; the music seemed to separate itself from the speaker units and permeate freely in the listening room. The impressive symphony came over like a carefully measured, excellently accentuated musical tapestry. ...
“Musica é” was given an emotional, profound and very accurately contoured reading in the listening room. Highly sensitive shaping of the voice, precise fading of the instruments and the aggressive yet never obtrusive delivery are the big plus points the AURUM speakers are able to gather here. The entire sonic picture comes out as a perfectly rounded piece of work, giving listeners the opportunity to immerse themselves completely in the music. …
The VULKAN VII is also superbly suited for forming the core of a powerful, high-end surround system. In which case an additional active subwoofer is hardly necessary, given the extreme possible depth and massive bass power this speaker generates. … Its exciting, impressively dynamic way of delivering sound at any rate optimally qualifies the VULKAN VII for the extremely demanding field of home cinema sound reproduction. ...
What the VULKAN VII brings with it in terms of fascination potential is already significantly more than what even the demanding music enthusiast looking for a versatile loudspeaker is likely to have encountered. Sonic structuring, spatial impression, fine dynamics and liveliness are already at an extremely high level where the VULKAN is concerned. ...
The VULKAN is more likely to appeal to people of an unmistakeably direct emotional nature who attach priority to artistic talents because their own profile tends to orientate them in this direction. Deeply felt emotions, coupled with an optimally harmonious overall sonic picture – this is one of the VULKAN VII’s prime disciplines. ...
The VULKAN VII follows in the footsteps of the TITAN VII in bringing the second “Masterpiece” for AURUM to Hanover. ...
Profound, emotional, impressive fine and coarse dynamics, the VULKAN clears a path for itself into the international loudspeaker elite with astoundingly effortless ease; this loudspeaker is not a hard-to-handle diva, and instead simply comes up with top performances just like that – and without any side effects. It neither calls for shockingly expensive co-equipment nor any enormous outlay in terms of setting it up.
And: where volume stability is concerned, you’re hardly likely to find anything better for the money. … Superb craftsmanship and technology further underline the special position this speaker from Hanover has made its own. Its look is that of a superbly crafted musical instrument, putting it in a class of its own; and the materials used to build it impress right down to the very last detail. ..."
