ARETAI
Northern Sound
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Aretai Contra Collection
The Red Dot Design Award winning Aretai Contra Collection embodies our Northern Sound concept – experience of the crisp and vital freshness of a winter morning surrounded by the generous and robust vastness of Nature.
MADE IN LATVIA
The passion to build the loudspeakers emerged after multiple visits of High-End Munich Show and urge to create something that differs from what was on offer in the show at the time.
Combining features rarely found in one product, the Contra Collection is the result of our quest for the perfect formula for timeless design and sound, backed by decades of audio knowledge imprinted in Audio Engineering Society papers and our own findings.
Prototypes were tested and refined in our R&D lab with countless measurements and evaluations to bring you the most enjoyable and aesthetic products, manufactured with precision technology and meticulous craftsmanship.
The Contra Collection embodies our Northern Sound concept – experience of the crisp and vital freshness of a winter morning surrounded by the generous and robust vastness of Nature.
All products in this collection follow similar aesthetic and sonic design principles. Their looks and finish are customizable to fit your taste, and, eventually, to blend harmonically with your room interior.
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Contra Series
CONTRA 350F
TheFlagship floorstander delivering extra sensitivity with a bass kick you’ll envy until you own one.
CONTRA 200F
A capable floorstanding performer with exceptional midrange clarity and punchy bass.
CONTRA 100S
A stunning soundstage combined with clarity and deep bass unusual for small speakers.
The Series
A Sound You Will Love
100s
A precision full-range performer
Designed for smaller and medium-sized rooms, the compact Contra 100S are quite unusual speakers, allowing you to “see” each instrument located right where the recording engineer intended it to be.
The unique and innovative filter design, bi-pole radiation pattern and the closed type enclosure enables Contra 100S two 6” drivers to deliver a surprisingly deep and well-textured bass combined with a coherent midbass and treble balance.
The bass response of this 2.5-way speaker extends down to 30Hz. To eliminate shifted phase summation typical for ported systems of similar size we deliberately designed a sealed enclosure to keep the bass perfectly tight.
Our custom-designed waveguide delivers a soundstage of impressive depth and width. The neodymium tweeter delivers pristine, undistorted clarity up to 25kHz even at higher volume levels.
350F
Mysterious and monumental like the monolith from 2001: Space Odyssey — our flagship speaker Contra 350F packs the extra power and sonic punch needed for larger rooms.
200F
An irresistible expressionist
The distinguished midrange clarity of Contra 200F gives you plenty of clean acoustic power to fill the room, loud or quiet. The sensitive driver ultra-light membranes and highly linear neodymium motors allow you to relish the finest musical details at all listening levels regardless of the amplifier type.
Our custom-designed waveguide provides a wide and coherent soundstage with depth and focus. By controlling the direct/reflected sound in a very balanced manner it also envelops the listener in stunningly live-like sound.
The cleverly constructed enclosure design combined with meticulous response tuning in real rooms allows Contra 200F to deliver a bass that is deep and punchy at the same time.
The above-average sensitivity and amplifier-friendly impedance of Contra 200F clearly reveals the capabilities of a wide range of amplifiers, allowing them to sound effortlessly dynamic. In our sophisticated filter design the drivers are crossed over within their safest operational bandwidth, contributing to their longevity while bringing you every precious bit of sensitivity.
In Contra 350F an exceptionally deep and tactile bass is combined with undistorted clarity taken to the extreme for the ultimate listening experience in larger rooms. The wide yet controlled dispersion angle ensures optimal engagement of your room leading to a highly truthful reproduction, including live concerts – a prominent quality confirmed by evaluators.
The combined 1200W power of two ultra-low distortion 12” neodymium bass drivers gives you plenty of bass impact leveraging the speaker's massive power headroom capability.
The above-average sensitivity and amplifier-friendly impedance of Contra 350F clearly reveals the capabilities of a wide range of amplifiers, allowing them to sound effortlessly dynamic. In our sophisticated filter design the drivers are crossed over within their safest operational bandwidth, contributing to their longevity while bringing you every precious bit of sensitivity.
The Range
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