Unequalled combination of power and naturalness
The SS-AR1 rewards careful listening, recreating sound just as it was recorded. This achievement in performance comes from an uncompromising quest for ideal cabinet materials and components that would work together for relaxed, detailed, open sound.
 
This is what reality sounds like
The SS-AR1 loudspeaker cabinet design enables clean, pinpoint imaging with an exceptionally vivid soundstage. Drive units from Danish transducer specialist, Scan-Speak, produce bass with power, authority, clarity, and midrange with outstanding detail and high frequencies that smoothly reach 60 kHz.
 
A solidly serious approach to build quality
The SS-AR1 uses a 50 mm thick baffle board made from laminated instrument grade maple, harvested on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido in November, when the grain is tightest. For the rest of the cabinet, extremely tight-grained Nordic birch is laminated, curved and compressed to a thickness of 32 mm. Craftsmen precisely assemble the complex inner system of baffles and the outer cabinet, then give it a deep, lustrous piano finish that enhances the sound quality and helps protect the wood from heat and humidity.
 
Fearlessly protected
Every SS-AR loudspeaker is backed by the Sony® ES 5-Year Limited Warranty, an industry leading 5-year parts and labor warranty, with 90-day advanced exchange program.