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Despite the similarities, the R 8 and R 3 Arretés are very different speakers. Start with the fact that the R 8 Arreté is much larger, has several additional drivers, and weighs three times as much. The R 8 is a complex speaker, which, as I wrote in my review, “sends energy out into the air via no fewer than nine sound-radiating openings, only four of them—the three midwoofers and the tweeter—firing forward. The others are the down-firing woofer (which radiates through those base slots to the back and sides), the rear-firing midrange driver (diffracted through those five horizontal grooves), the vent that allows the tweeter’s back wave to emerge from the rear, and the two aforementioned ports.” That’s a lot for a designer to integrate, though with the R 8, Ole did a superb job: As I wrote in the review, “what I heard from the R 8s was anything but complicated: It was pure and coherent and easily grasped.”

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