O Audio YMIR
Our most ambitious loudspeaker. A clean-sheet flagship that shares nothing with the Icon 12 or Verdande before it — reference-level performance in a human-scale form, built for real listening rooms. Named after the primordial giant of Norse myth.
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The Compression Driver
At the top is a newly developed compression driver built around a 76 mm carbon diaphragm — engineered for low distortion across a wide bandwidth and tuned to eliminate horn coloration. Its unusually large diaphragm carries much of the core midrange, including the upper range of voices, guitars, violins, and pianos.
The Feet
Ymir stands on solid stainless-steel outriggers for stability, with height-adjustable, two-stage decoupling feet. A tungsten-ball interface isolates the cabinet from the floor, cutting energy transfer for tighter bass, sharper imaging, and greater clarity.
Directivity ControlThe driver loads into our proprietary Quad Vertex SoundField waveguide for controlled directivity — a smooth off-axis response and stable room interaction that hold tonal balance across a wide listening area, even in untreated rooms.
The Woofer
Low frequencies come from a newly developed 12" carbon-fiber composite woofer with extended linear excursion and a damping core. One large driver, optimized for speed and control rather than brute extension, staying composed from low-level detail to high-output demands.
The Crossover
Signal is split by an assisted first-order network using custom copper-foil capacitors and resin-potted inductors. As in every Ø Audio design, keeping the component count low preserves the integrity of the musical signal — accurate in phase and amplitude, pure through the signal path.
The Baffle
A 10 mm stainless-steel front baffle anchors the design. It sharpens the look, but its real job is rigidity — reducing panel vibration and energy storage, and giving every driver a stable, unmoving platform to work from.
The Enclosure
The cabinet tapers toward the rear to cut internal reflections and standing waves. Three mirror-symmetrical bass-reflex ports per speaker let Ymir work with room boundaries during placement, and the rear terminals are fitted with an integrated torque limiter.
Construction
2-way, horn-loaded Sensitivity
93.5 dBFrequency range
26 Hz – 22 kHzImpedance
8 Ω (minimum 8 Ω)Horn
Q.V.S.T. constant-directivity waveguide Tweeter
7.6 cm carbon diaphragmWoofer
30.5 cm (12") carbon-fiber compositeFeet
Polished stainless steel with tungsten resonance dampingDimensions
114.5 × 38.2 × 52.9 cm (excl. feet)Width incl. feet
62.6 cm Weight
120 kg Transport
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www.heynowhifi.com.auTONEAudio Reviews the Ø Audio Ymir
TONEAudio explores the Ymir with a wide range of amplifiers, praising its lifelike dynamics, natural tonal balance, precise imaging and seamless driver integration before giving it a strong recommendation.
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Ø Audio Ymir Loudspeakers: The First International Review
Marc Phillips reviews the Ymir for pt.AUDIO, testing the new reference loudspeaker with both low-powered 300B amplification and high-power solid state while exploring its coherence, dynamics, imaging and effortless scale.
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