Triangle Antal 40th Anniversary Edition Floorstanding Speakers Celebrate Four Decades of French Design
By HiFi Editorial11 March 2026
Key Highlights
Triangle Antal 40th Anniversary Edition celebrates the French brand’s 40-year legacy, combining elegant floorstanding design with refined craftsmanship and strong market popularity.
Premium finish includes luxurious real wood veneer and high-gloss lacquer, rivaling far more expensive speakers, alongside a matching 40th Anniversary Comète stand-mount model.
3-way, 4-driver bass-reflex design uses dual 16.5cm woofers, a 16.5cm cellulose paper midrange, and a 2.5cm magnesium alloy tweeter.
What separates the Antal 40th Anniversary from a routine cosmetic refresh is how Triangle uses the platform to refine long‑standing engineering choices rather than rewrite them. The driver complement shows a clear commitment to lightweight, fast-reacting membranes: the untreated cellulose midrange continues the company’s long-held belief that paper, when properly profiled, preserves harmonic density without added coloration, while the revised cone geometry tightens low-frequency behavior around the lower crossover point. The dual bass units, built from a composite of wood pulp, flax, and carbon fibers, suggest a deliberate balance between internal damping and rigidity, allowing long excursion without the “thickening” that often accompanies multi-woofer floorstanders in this size class. Crossover points at 180Hz and 3.8kHz indicate an effort to keep the critical vocal band largely within a single driver, minimizing phase complexity through the midband.
