High End 2019 • Hot Product

Last year, Oliver Göbel surprised the Munich show with the massive Divin Majestic loudspeaker, a €449,000-per-pair behemoth that offered high efficiency while eschewing the company’s trademark bending-wave driver. Having spent some considerable time with the big speaker on a recent trip to Hong Kong, we’ve developed a healthy respect for its capabilities.

This year the company showed the rather more modest (the term is relative) Divin Noblesse (€195,000 per pair). Almost two feet shorter than its bigger brother, the junior model still offers 95dB sensitivity and a -3dB point at 21Hz from its two heavily ported 12” bass drivers. It features the same modified AMT high-frequency unit and sophisticated coatings on the cone midrange and bass drivers, derived from the panels used in the bending-wave driver.

Smaller, more easily accommodated and almost as easy to drive as the flagship model, the Divin Noblesse promises to deliver an awful lot of the Majestic’s performance at a considerably more approachable price.