Stenheim

Founded in 2010, Stenheim quickly became a leader among Swiss audio brands. In 2011, and after two years of research and development, Stenheim launched its first product, the Alumine Two. These compact, all-aluminium, bookshelf speakers were created to be proof that aluminium enclosures coupled with high-efficiency drivers would deliver truly remarkable musical performance. It is a design philosophy from which all Stenheim speakers are derived.

A passionate believer in the Alumine concept from the very beginning, Jean-Pascal Panchard took over the running of the company in 2013 to develop the idea into a coherent line of aluminium speakers. He was a music aficionado and engineer by training who brought with him extensive experience in the High End audio market, having worked with some of the leading Swiss names.

What would happen, the company now wondered, if you took the Alumine concept and scaled it up massively, with no regard to cost, to produce a speaker that would provide the deepest bass and fill the largest rooms with crystalline music? Stenheim developed its first Reference speaker as a result in 2014.

“Stenheim goes from strength to strength.”

Over the years, the Alumine line would expand into the Alumine Five, which took all sorts of learnings from the Reference, and then a scaled down and less costly version of this, the Alumine Three. In parallel, the Reference line also expanded to include the mighty Reference Statement, an ensemble of two main towers and two sub-towers, created for the largest and most demanding systems. Then in 2021, the Reference Ultime Two was launched, a sort of compact Reference but still an imposing speaker.

The company had moved premises in the meantime to an all-new facility just a few miles down the road in Vétroz. Here, still in the heart of the Alps, Stenheim speakers continue to be put together by hand in the shadow of the mountains that surround them.

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