Triangle Antal 40th Anniversary Edition

As part of its 40th Birthday celebrations, Triangle has upgraded its iconic Antal floor-stander. Time to crash the party...

Triangle loudspeakers actually hit the big four zero back in 2020, but, given that wasn’t a terribly celebratory year it has waited a little longer to celebrate with anniversary versions of key models. The Antal more than meets the definition of a key model’. In production since the Nineties, it’s one of the archetypal Triangle designs and it’s contextually important to understand that the basic shape and layout of the Anniversary Edition is unchanged.

This is still a 3.5-way floorstander over a metre tall. What Triangle has done is take the constituent parts of the design and improve them where possible. This means there is still an example of the trademark horn tweeter, but instead of the titanium of the standard Antal here it has been revised and has become a composite of magnesium and rose gold. The company says the new combination offers advantages over both raw magnesium and titanium and improves consistency from driver to driver.

This hands over at 3.9kHz to a 135mm untreated cellulose midrange that appears identical to the one used in the standard Esprit range of which the Antal is a member). Internally though, it has a reduced number of filtering components for a more natural and linear overall performance. The midrange crosses over at 185Hz to

a pair of 135mm bass drivers made from an interesting and not entirely explained) combination of wood pulp, flax and carbon fibre. The crossover that ties the three drivers together has also seen improvements, principally in the components used in the signal path. Fairly unusually in this day and age, it supports bi-wiring via a quartet of upgraded terminals.