Nice Job, Aperion

RMAF 2012

By Jason Victor Serinus • Posted: Oct 17, 2012

Mike Hopkins of Aperion Audio has reason to smile. The Aperion Verus Grand ($1798/pair), a three-way tower loudspeaker with a frequency response of 45Hz–22kHz, 6 ohms impedance, and 92dB sensitivity, was being fed by a Marantz SA 1153 SACD player and PM 1153 integrated amplifier via Straight Wire cabling, and delivering a very nice, complete presentation of Belinda Carlisle's cover of "Hallelujah."

Comments

new finish

Submitted by branon on October 17, 2012 - 12:50pm.

I dont recall the Verus line having a rosewood like finish available. Is that a new option?

Engineered veneer...

Submitted by ppgr on October 17, 2012 - 1:26pm.

... designed to look like exotic wood. Nice look in a chinese kind of way.

no, not really

Submitted by Edelafuente on October 18, 2012 - 11:02am.

it is a real wood veneer, guess you probably didn't see it in person. (FYI - full disclosure, I'm Ed at Aperion Audio)

Sure looks like African

Submitted by skeeter99 on October 17, 2012 - 8:34pm.

Sure looks like African Macassar to me. Looks nice.

Yes - new custom finishes for Verus Grand

Submitted by Edelafuente on October 18, 2012 - 10:59am.

Hi, this is Ed at Aperion - @skeeter99, good eyes, even from a photo - you're absolutely right, this is an Ebony wood veneer with several layers of hand polished high-gloss lacquer. We showed a couple of our new custom finishes for the Verus Grand line at RMAF, there was also a pair of bookshelves in Birdseye Maple for contrast! Visitors at the show voted on our available custom woods to narrow what we will offer to about six. We'll announce those soon. The standard finishes for Verus are real wood high-gloss Cherry and Gloss Piano Black, all hand crafted. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Cheers.

New Finishes

Submitted by branon on November 8, 2012 - 4:23pm.

I guess I will hold off on purchasing anything then!

I always like the dark red finishes on speakers.