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A living room with slimline Artcoustic on-wall loudspeakers finished to match the walls
Ribble AV X Artcoustic
Select Premium Partner

Artcoustic loudspeakers, designed into Lancashire homes

Danish loudspeakers built to sit flat on a wall and disappear into the room, then fill it. We are one of a small group of Artcoustic Select Premium Partners in the UK, which means we design with the range rather than around it.

FIG. 01 / SL SERIES ON-WALL, RESIDENTIAL
SINCE 1998 Denmark
SELECT Premium Partner
NCS · RAL · F&B Finish matched
ATMOS · DTS:X · AURO-3D Immersive ready
01 The partnership

Premium Partner is a standard, not a discount.

Artcoustic keeps its Premium Partner list short on purpose. It is a working relationship rather than a badge: we hold demonstration stock, we are trained on the acoustic data behind each model, and we can talk to the factory in Denmark about a bespoke width, a non-standard depth or a fabric that has to match a specific paint.

  • Direct factory route for bespoke sizes, frames and grille fabrics.
  • Demonstration room, so you can hear a Spitfire before it is on your wall.
  • Acoustic data used at design stage, not guessed at on site.
  • The same engineer who specifies the speakers calibrates them afterwards.

Most of what the partnership buys you is dull and useful. Lead times we can trust, a finish sample before you commit, and a system that measures the way the drawings said it would.

Artcoustic loudspeakers set into timber wall panelling
FIG. 02 / GRILLE AND PANELLING ALIGNMENT
03 The brand

A loudspeaker designed by people who had to live with it.

Artcoustic has built architectural loudspeakers in Denmark since 1998, and pioneered the all-in-one LCR a year before that. The idea has not changed: put a genuinely capable driver array in a slim cabinet that hangs on the wall like a picture, and let the room keep its plaster.

The whole range shares one acoustic platform, so a pair in a snug and a full immersive array in a cinema sound like the same family. The company is honest about it too. There is no mystique added to the model above; the same drivers, the same tonality, measurable and predictable.

Founded 1998 Denmark, still Danish owned and designed
Category Architectural loudspeakers On-wall, in-ceiling, in-wall and subwoofers
We hold Select Premium Partner One of roughly 25 in the United Kingdom
Best for Rooms that cannot be cut into Stone walls, listed fabric, finished interiors
04 The range

The families we specify.

Which model goes where is decided by the room, not the price list. This is the shortlist we work from.

FamilyWhat it isWhere we use it
SL Series
The versatile slimline on-wall range. Four standard sizes with bespoke widths available, and the LCR that started the whole idea.
Cinema · Hi-fi · Multi-room
Spitfire
High-output on-wall with controlled directivity, built for dedicated rooms with real headroom demands.
Private cinema · Media room
Spitfire Cloud
Purpose-built overhead loudspeaker for immersive formats, sharing the Spitfire acoustic platform.
Atmos ceilings
SL Architect
Ultra-thin in-ceiling and in-wall models, the discreet option where a wall cabinet will not do.
Living spaces · Hospitality
Architect F-1
Full-range single-source in-ceiling. 40 Hz to 40 kHz with no subwoofer required.
Multi-room · Bars · Hotels
Subwoofers
Sealed, compact and architectural. The Sub 2-12 uses a 12 inch long-throw driver and sixth-order bandpass loading.
Cinema · Music rooms
05 How we specify it

The room decides the model.

We measure before we choose. Wall construction, seating distance, glazing and the finish schedule all change the answer, and any of them can move a specification up or down a family.

Driver 01

Room volume and distance

A large open-plan space at four metres needs more cone area than a snug at two and a half, regardless of budget. Getting this wrong is the most common reason a good speaker sounds thin.

Driver 02

Finish and frame

The grille is the part you look at every day. Colour matching, artwork printing and bespoke widths all add lead time and cost, and they are usually worth it.

Driver 03

Headroom over count

Two properly sized speakers beat four undersized ones. We would rather specify fewer, larger models running comfortably than a crowded ceiling working hard.

Indicative only. A design visit produces a fixed price.

08 Common questions

Artcoustic, honestly answered.

Yes. Frames and grilles are finished in NCS or RAL, or matched to Farrow & Ball, Little Greene and Paint & Paper Library. We order a sample first so you see the colour on the actual fabric before it goes into production.

Both. The SL and Spitfire families sit on the wall in a slim cabinet. The SL Architect range goes in the ceiling or the wall. And an LCR can live behind an acoustically transparent panel so nothing is visible at all.

An on-wall cabinet has a known internal volume, so its behaviour is predictable. An in-wall speaker depends on the cavity it lands in, which varies. On a stone or a listed wall, on-wall is often the only sensible option.

No. The same platform covers multi-room audio, kitchens, bedrooms and hospitality. The Architect F-1 in particular is a full-range ceiling speaker that does not need a subwoofer, which suits bars and hotels well.

A pair of SL on-wall speakers in a standard finish starts in the low thousands. A Spitfire immersive array in a dedicated cinema, with subwoofers and bespoke finishes, runs considerably higher. A design visit gives you a fixed number.

We do, in the room, at the time of day it will be used. The measurement set stays with your documentation, so if anything changes later there is a reference to work back to.

A stone house lit at dusk
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Come and hear a pair.

We visit, listen, measure, and come back with drawings and a fixed price. If another platform suits the house better, we will tell you that too.

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