alumine five
Alumine Five SE
Like other speakers in the Alumine line, the Stenheim Alumine Five is also available as a Special Edition, the Alumine Five SE. Nominated as The Absolute Sound’s overall Product of the Year 2022, the Five SE takes the phenomenal performance of the Alumine Five and manages to raise it to even greater heights.
It takes the same sophisticated cabinet design and drivers but laces them together with a cost-no-object crossover, built with the finest available components. The Alumine Five’s crossover is exactingly and meticulously engineered to be as musically unobtrusive as possible. But through the selection of even higher grade components, it is possible to release a whole new level of musical information: greater resolution, richer textures, more articulate rhythms and more natural dynamics.
Exhaustive listening tests have led us to develop our own internal wiring and select the very best parts from Mundorf and Jantzen, Audyn, Myflex and Jupiter – a Who’s Who of boutique audiophile brands. The result is even greater transparency and dimensionality, even more natural separation and perspectives, micro-dynamic and harmonic resolution, a greater range of tonal colour. The result is more music, more musician and less speaker. In fact, more of what makes the Alumine Five such a great speaker in the first place. In the words of Jonathan Valin of The Absolute Sound : “the Stenheim Five SE is not just a great speaker: it is one of high-end audio's greatest speakers.” Truly “one for the ages”.
Technical Specifications
- Passive 3-way floor-standing speakers
- 2x 25cm (10”) woofers, 1x 16.5cm (6.5”) medium driver, 1x 2.6cm (1”) soft dome tweeter
- Front laminar port bass reflex design
- Full aluminium construction
- 4 independent chambers
- Phase coherent crossover employing high grade, audiophile components
- Frequency response: 28Hz to 35kHz
- Sensivity: 94dB SPL, half space
- Power handling : 200W RMS, 400W Peak
- Minimum recommended power: 20W
- Nominal impedance: 8 Ohms (minimum 3 Ohms)
- Dimensions: Width 28cm (11”) x Depth 38cm (15”) x Height 120cm (47.2”)
- Weight: 100kg (220.5lbs) each
- Available in metallic Light Grey or Dark Grey with black front and rear
- Extended Warranty: 5 years (by registration)
Custom options
- Full Black, Ivory or Mocca with black front and rear
- Special Edition SE available with upgraded, ultimate components - crossover, internal wiring and Reference binding posts allowing bi-wiring
- Special Edition SX available as SE with solid billet aluminium platform, room control panel, grounding post, and anodised tweeter horn
- Limited Edition LE available as Five SX but exclusively in Full Black with gold-leaf gilded tweeter horn, sidebars and platform detail, leather front baffle, and Stenheim emblem on the rear. Limited to 10 pairs only.
Press reviews
“ALUMINE FIVE SX TEST: HIFISTATEMENT
“Its captivating dynamics, infectious enthusiasm for playing, and well-defined, rich, and incredibly lively bass surprised me at first and then truly impressed me. At Stenheim, the joy of listening to music comes first!”
Dirk Sommer, Hifistatement, 2025
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“Alumine Five SX REVIEW: Heavy Metal! - GY8 BLOg
“The Alumine 5 and its SE version were speakers that could and would grow with your system and your musical ambitions. The A5-SX takes that further still. This is a speaker whose sheer musical insight won’t just grow with you, it will help you grow, expanding your access and your horizons. Perhaps it’s just as well that the Alumine 5-SX looks so different and distinctive: its performance certainly is!”
Roy Gregory, GY8 Blog, 2025
READ FULL REVIEW“Alumine Five Se: ONE FOR THE AGES” - The absolute sound magazine
“The Stenheim Five SE is not just a great speaker; it is one of high-end audio’s greatest speakers. Its ability to generate truly deep, linear, powerful bass, unusually rich and lifelike tone color, near-visible three-dimensional images, and astounding detail and dynamics from such a modest enclosure is not just a surprise; it is one for the ages.”
Jonathan Valin, The Absolute Sound magazine, 2022
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“Alumine Five Se : swiss PRODIGIES” - haute fidélité magazine
“The Alumine FIVE SE set the bar for high-fidelity incredibly high, whether than be in terms of definition, inexhaustible dynamics, the extraordinary variety of nuances or the realism of the sound stage, but in a perfect fusion of these elements that has almost never been heard before in this format. Taking a completely classic approach, their qualities do justice to the emotion and the natural energy of the music, creating special moments with an extraordinary talent. These indispensable loudspeakers free the musical energy of the very best recordings with panache: they are true prodigies!”
Bruno Castelluzzo, Haute-Fidélité Magazine, 2022
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Owners’ Testimonials
"The Alumine Five SX delivers all the tone, dynamics, and soundstage I enjoy, while retaining the resolution and nuance of a high-end transducer. It's a very special speaker that brings an incredible natural flow to music of all genres. The SX version adds a wonderful weight to the bass and has exceeded my expectations with top-notch build quality; I look forward to enjoying it for years."
Keith R. 2026
