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The Ø Audio Icon 12 Floor-standing loudspeaker is essentially a large two-way design, which claims to be very easy to drive, with excellent dispersion characteristics and exceptionally low distortion.

Ø Audio Icon 12 Floor-Standing Loudspeakers

The Basics:

Usually, high-efficiency speakers with compression drivers, horn waveguides, and big woofers are the stuff of pro monitors, concert venue speakers, and sound reinforcement applications. With the Icon 12, Ø Audio takes the concept decidedly upscale with bespoke, custom-designed drivers and robust, beautifully finished enclosures. In some respects, it reminded me of my time with the JBL 4367 floor-standers a few years back, but in many other ways, the Icon 12 is a very different animal.

Ø Audio Icon 12 Floor-Standing Loudspeaker Front Angle View

The Rundown:

Ø Audio may be a new name to many people, but this Norwegian audio brand has been out there for a fair few years and has only recently been making its presence known in the North American market. I first became aware of Ø Audio at the 2025 Munich High-End show, where I got to experience their similar, but larger, Verdande loudspeakers teamed up with a pair of their prototype Varg subwoofers. It was an impressive experience, and I got a chance to get to know the company co-founders, Sveinung Mala (engineering) and Jonathan Cook (marketing), while attending the demonstration. It’s clear that some serious design and engineering work is happening with their speaker designs. Philosophically, low distortion, wide dispersion, and high dynamic range (along with being “easy-ish” to drive) are the main goals with the Icon12.

Ø Audio Icon 12 Floor-Standing Loudspeaker Specifications
Frequency Response (Manufacturer):

28 Hz – 20 kHz

Nominal Impedance:

8 Ohms

Sensitivity:

92 dB (2.83 dB @ 1-meter full space)

Dimensions (H x W x D):

111 × 37 × 51 cm / 44 × 14.5 × 20 inches.

Net Weight:

121.3 lbs. / 55 kgs

Product Name:

Icon 12

Product Type:

2-Way Bass Reflex Floor-standing Loudspeakers with dual side ports.

MSRP:

$25,000.00 pair

Website:

Ø Audio Icon 12

Company:

Ø Audio

Ø Audio Icon 12 Floor-Standing Loudspeakers situated within a home theater audio room full of other various random different high fidelity audio products and other miscellaneous home personal belongings

The Follow-Up:

This is the first review we have done on an Ø Audio loudspeaker here at SECRETS. Initial impressions confirm the company’s high efficiency and easy-to-drive claims, along with several other promising qualities. This is shaping up to be a rather interesting and compelling speaker choice for those who are looking in this price range.

Be on the lookout for our full Icon 12 review, with bench tests, to drop on the SECRETS website in the coming weeks.

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A native of Toronto Canada, Carlo's interest in audio began at a young age when, unbeknownst to his mother, he started taking apart her numerous transistor radios to see how they worked. This desire for “knowledge through deconstruction” continued through to the family’s 8-track tape player, turntable, headphones, and speakers. Carlo subsequently spent a lot of time in his room. Toronto was a fertile ground for Hi-Fi in the 1970s and 80s and Carlo spent much of his wayward youth hanging out in downtown Toronto stereo shops, listening to all manner of gear and picking the brains of the various store owners. Through that formative experience, Carlo developed an appreciation for good music and good sound reproduction. Also, as a budding graphic artist, the aesthetic aspects of a given piece of gear became increasingly of interest to his eyes. It was at about that time as well that Carlo began purchasing “Audio Magazine” on a regular basis and came to appreciate, in particular, the writing and reviewing of the late Leonard Feldman. Later on, he was also influenced by the writing and observations of the staff at Sound and Vision Canada, helmed at the time by Alan Loft. Carlo graduated from Sheridan College with a degree in Classical Animation and was subsequently employed by Walt Disney Consumer Products for 10 years as a Character Artist and Art Director. Having become disenchanted with Los Angeles, he then decided to strike out on his own. Carlo started his own company and has been freelancing artwork, from his home studio, primarily for the toy and publishing industries since 2001. In 2013, on a bit of a lark, Carlo answered a “Call for Writers” ad from an AV website that he had been regularly reading for about 5 years called Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity. He had come to appreciate the website’s combination of subjective impressions along with the objective bench-testing available in several of the reviews. The “B-Team” must have been working that day because by some miracle he was hired as a writer and his first review for the site was published early in 2014. Carlo has been continually writing, editing, traveling, listening, and learning on the company’s behalf ever since. Carlo currently lives in Granville, Ohio with his wife, two sons, and a very old, but chill dachshund.

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