WLM Stella Loudspeakers
Stella monitor and floor-standing tower [Click to enlarge]
Smaller size and price. BIG sound!
The WLM design team has successfully packaged La Scala’s highly acclaimed sonic signature in a smaller and less expensive offering – giving birth to the Stella. Available as monitors and floor-standers, Stella incorporates La Scala’s tweeter combined with a smaller version of La Scala’s mid / bass driver, so you can count on Stellas to deliver:
- Compact size coupled with a large and transparent soundstage, allowing them to “disappear” from your listening room
- A focused image, where vocalists and instruments are distinctly identifiable, as if placed on a stage in front of you
- Cohesive tone and timbre, from the highest frequencies down to the clearly articulated bass
- A highly musical and emotional presentation that draws you into the music
Stellas are ideal for smaller rooms, but don’t let the small size fool you – they sound BIG and go deep!
Features
Cabinets
- Fine-quality Austrian craftsmanship
- Choice of natural maple, cherry or black-stained maple veneers
- Real hardwood internal bracing with internal cabinet resonance control
Drivers
- Lightweight paper cones with stiff suspension, designed to faithfully respond to incoming musical signals and engineered for long life expectancy
- Matching cone material used in both drivers, resulting in a highly cohesive presentation across the musical spectrum
- Powerful, high-performance magnets, maximizing the drivers ability to accurately reproduce the original musical source
Crossover
- Carefully-selected, premium parts
- Minimalist design, so fewer electronic parts come between you and your music, resulting in:
- Improved sound quality
- Greater efficiency, so you can select your amplifier based on sound quality rather than being forced to chase raw power just to bring your speakers to life
- Point-to-point wiring for all crossover components (no printed circuit boards), resulting in a larger soundstage and increased transparency
WLM Tweeter Control
Tweeter Control, located on rear-panel, allows you to fine-tune the tweeter’s volume level to suit your room acoustics, electronic components and listening preferences
Speaker Posts
- Heavy-duty, gold-plated posts that support single or bi-wiring
- Designed to accept bare wire, banana plugs or spade terminals
Bass Tuning-Ring System (Floor-standing model only)
- Bass reflex port on rear-panel of speaker
- Included “Bass Tuning Rings” allow you to decrease port diameter, in turn reducing bass output
- Like the Tweeter Control, Bass Tuning Rings allow for fine-tuning of the response curve to suit your room acoustics (especially useful for small listening rooms), electronic components and listening preferences
Speaker Floor Spikes (Floor-standing model only)
Four supplied spikes per speaker, decouple speaker cabinets from the floor, minimizing sound-degrading cabinet / floor vibrations
Reviews
“The Stellas are clean, classy and honest yet they retain sufficient intimacy for a thoroughly immersive listening experience... A two-way high fidelity sound that is (above all else) uncoloured and - wait for it - accurate.”
“...the Stella’s are something of a rarity at this price point in that they excel at delivering the musical goods by means of showcasing exceptional speed, clarity, imaging, dynamics, top to bottom articulation, and excellent power handling. I must admit that I wasn’t fully expecting a company to chase musicality via an agile and lively character. Not at this price at least. Color me impressed.”
“...this system (featuring Stellas) put to shame a lot of the high-priced spread and played ungawdly loud without any break-up or distress signals... The success of systems like these is not to be underestimated. So often audiophiles aspire to greatness with speakers that can’t be accommodated properly by their room.”
“My guess is that this (WLM room featuring Stellas) was the room where people most focused on the software at hand and completely forgot about the hardware as soon as the first guitar solo hit their ears.”
Since this is a new product, I’ll share my personal impressions...
“The Stella monitor and floorstander are quite a bit smaller than La Scalas, so I expected them to also sound smaller – well they don’t.
While they do not go quite as deep, they are fast and punchy, spacious and "airy" – and extremely musical.
They do well at both soft and loud listening levels. And can take the power – very clean! They’re also dynamic. You’d expect this level of performance from speakers in La Scala’s class, but considering Stella’s size and price point, you will be pleasantly surprised. Stellas also feature the fine Austrian build quality music lovers have come to expect from WLM – and deliver all this for half the price of the La Scala! Oh, and for those of you with smaller listening rooms, you might even prefer them to La Scalas.”– Vinnie Rossi (Red Wine Audio)
Also see La Scala reviews to better understand Stella’s sound signature »
Specifications
Drivers |
2.5” paper cone tweeter |
|---|---|
Impedance |
8 Ohm |
Frequency Range |
40Hz – 25 KHz (Stella Monitor) |
SPL (1W / 1-meter) |
88dB (Stella Monitor) |
Recommended Amplification |
Starting from 20 Watts per channel |
Type of connection |
Single or Bi-Wiring |
Dimensions (inches): |
11.75 x 6.75 x 10.75 (Stella Monitor) |
Weight (lbs.), per speaker |
12 lbs. (Stella Monitor) |
Specifications subject to change without notice.
Purchase
Stella Monitors
Price: $2,250 / pair, plus shipping
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Stella Floor Standing Towers
Price: $2,700 / pair, plus shipping
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