ME-Geithain ME 160

Brief description

High-quality, passive floorstanding speaker with coaxial system for listening distances between 2 and 5 m.

Data

General

• Manufacturer: ME-Geithain
• Model: ME 160
• Year of manufacture: at least since 2010
• Manufactured in: Germany
• Color: ash black, others optional
• Dimensions: 280 x 1070 x 335 mm (W x H x D) + base plate
• Weight: 32 kg
• New price: from approx. 7800,- EUR (pair)

Technical Data

• Construction: 3-way, bass reflex
• drivers:
  • Low frequency: 1x cone (Ø 200 mm)

Low-/midrange: 1x cone (Ø 200 mm)

• • tweeter: 3x dome (Ø 25 mm, array)
• Power handling (nominal/music): 160 W / 400 W

efficiency:

• Frequency response: 40 - 20,000 Hz (±3 dB).
• Transitional ranges: 300 Hz / 2200 Hz
• Impedance: 4 Ohm

• Maximum sound level: 115 dB peak; r = 1 m
• Sensitivity: 89 dB
• directivity (100 Hz - 10,000 Hz): increasing from 2 dB to 13 dB

Special Features

• Bi-wiring terminal
• Coaxial speaker for mid/high range
• Bass reflex port facing the base plate

Comments

Other models of the same series:

• ME 25
• ME 100
• ME 100C
• ME 110
• ME 150
• ME 160
• ME 180

Reports

• Audio Issue 2/2010
  • Sound rating: 99 points

"Tip: for large rooms"

"The Geithain achieves the miracle of playing with presence even at five metres and still with a high-end open sound. Added to this are dynamics and a joy of playing that one would never have expected from a monitor manufacturer. The only downer: in the bass, everything really has to be right acoustically."

• Hörerlebnis Heft 72

"All in all an elegant floorstanding speaker that cultivates true understatement and doesn't want to push itself unnecessarily into the foreground. However, this understatement is soon over when the ME 160 is fed with music of any genre. Then it really comes out, the proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing ..."

Links

• ME 160 company website