Can Cane be mounted on a door frame or jamb?

Yes — Cane's slim profile and included mounting hardware allow it to be fixed to door jambs, trim, and other narrow architectural surfaces.

What finish suits oak or warm wood trim?

Cane's champagne finish is designed to sit close to warm honey and gold wood tones like oak, reading as part of the trim rather than a contrasting fixture.

Does an entrance zone need the same coverage as a full room?

No — an entrance or threshold speaker typically extends the sound of an adjoining room rather than providing standalone full coverage, so a single Cane unit is often sufficient for that role.

What power handling does Cane have?

Cane is rated at 50W RMS (60W peak) into 8Ω impedance.

Is Cane compatible with glass or pocket door installations?

Cane doesn't mount to the glass itself but is commonly placed on adjacent door jambs, trim or wall surfaces near glass doors and pocket door openings.

Should an entrance or threshold speaker be its own audio zone?

Usually not — it's typically wired into the same zone as the adjoining room, so there's no audible drop-off in volume or tone as a guest moves from the threshold into the room itself.

Case Study: Cane at a Private Lounge Glass-Door Entrance

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XSCACE Cane speaker mounted on an oak door jamb beside a full-height glass pocket door

A private lounge entrance framed by a full-height glass sliding door, set into warm honey-toned oak trim, needed a speaker that would announce the room's sound before a guest even stepped through — without interrupting the glass itself or the book-matched marble feature wall visible beyond it. Cane was mounted directly onto the oak door jamb, blending with the trim's own colour.

Case Study at a Glance

Space: private lounge glass-door entrance
Product: Cane (23mm slim-array)
Mounting surface: honey-toned oak door jamb
Finish: champagne aluminium, matched to oak
Goal: announce the lounge's sound before a guest steps through the door

Threshold audio as an extension, not a separate zone

An entrance speaker positioned at a threshold like this is usually wired into the same zone as the room beyond it, rather than treated as an independent zone with its own control — the intent is continuity, so a guest doesn't experience a volume or tonal drop-off crossing from the entrance into the lounge itself. That continuity is a wiring and zoning decision made at design stage, not something correctable after installation.

Blending into oak trim

Cane's champagne finish was chosen specifically to sit close to the warm-gold tone of the oak jamb, rather than the darker or cooler finish options — from a few feet away, the speaker reads as part of the door hardware rather than a separate fixture.

A threshold, not a room

An entrance or threshold zone like this doesn't need to deliver full-room coverage on its own — it's there to extend the sound of the lounge beyond the door itself. Cane's 92dB sensitivity gives it enough headroom to do that at modest power draw, without needing to be driven hard.

The system

An Air Amp drives the lounge's Cane speakers, with an Acacia 10 Powered subwoofer providing low-end fill for the main lounge space beyond the entrance.

Planned, controlled and calibrated in a reverberant space

Every XSCACE installation follows the same three stages: planned in the simulator, controlled from the app that matches the hardware, and calibrated with measurement. Lobbies are stone, glass and height — the least forgiving acoustic in a building, and the first thing a visitor experiences.

Planned

XSCACE Floorplan Sound Simulation takes a plan from trace to bill of quantities in the browser. For a room like this the outputs that matter are:

Coverage across the arrival path rather than a single point

Room modes and reflections located in a space with no absorption

A client-ready drawing for sign-off before the finishes go on

XSCACE Floorplan Sound Simulation showing room modes on a traced room plan

Trace, place, predict — before anything is ordered

Controlled

Day-to-day control is XSCACE Controller on iOS and Android. It handles volume, EQ and grouping, and the streaming amplifiers also appear natively as AirPlay 2 and Spotify Connect targets, so the app is for control rather than for getting audio into the room.

Calibrated

The calibration toolkit inside XSCACE Studio measures what the room actually does — eleven instruments covering SPL, delay, levels, polarity, frequency response, THD, sub alignment, transfer function, RT60, RTA and export, free on macOS. Here the ones that earn their place are:

RT60 to ISO 3382, the defining number in a hard tall room

SPL along the arrival route

Frequency response, since reverberation colours tone as well as timing

XSCACE Studio calibration toolkit — Frequency Response

Cane runs down to 150Hz against Acacia 10 Powered's 35Hz, and the two records recommend different crossover points (200Hz and 300Hz). Which suits the room is a measurement, not a preference.