Why choose Cedar over a thinner speaker like Cane or Bonsai?

Cedar trades additional depth (74.9mm) for significantly more output — 100W RMS and 96dB sensitivity — making it a better fit for larger or higher-traffic spaces like reception lounges than thinner, lower-power models.

What impedance does Cedar run at?

Cedar runs at 4Ω impedance, which requires an amplifier rated for 4Ω loads rather than 8Ω-only amplifiers.

Does a 4Ω speaker need a different amplifier than an 8Ω one?

Yes — a 4Ω load draws roughly double the current of an 8Ω load at the same voltage, so the driving amplifier needs to be specifically rated for 4Ω operation, not just have extra wattage headroom.

What subwoofer pairs with Cedar?

The Juniper (350W RMS, 25Hz–200Hz) is a common pairing for larger Cedar installations needing extended low-frequency reach.

Is Cedar suitable for commercial or hospitality-grade spaces?

Yes — Cedar's higher power handling and sensitivity make it well suited to larger, higher-traffic spaces like hotel lobbies, reception lounges, and other hospitality environments.

Is a thinner speaker always the better choice for a high-end room?

Not necessarily — larger or more acoustically demanding rooms, especially those with hard reflective surfaces like marble and glass, often benefit more from a higher-output, moderately deeper speaker like Cedar than from prioritising minimum depth alone.

Case Study: Cedar in a Marble, Hotel-Style Reception Lounge

XSCACE Cedar speaker mounted on book-matched grey marble in a formal reception lounge

A formal reception lounge with floor-to-ceiling glass, book-matched grey-veined marble, and hotel-lobby-grade furnishing needed a speaker built for a room that regularly holds more people than a private living room — sound that stays clean and controlled across a crowd, not just at one seat. Cedar was specified here instead of the thinner Cane or Bonsai, mounted on a dark grey marble panel beside ribbed bronze wood-slat cladding.

Case Study at a Glance

Room: formal reception lounge, hotel-lobby scale
Product: Cedar (74.9mm, 100W RMS, 96dB)
Mounting surface: dark grey book-matched marble + bronze wood-slat cladding
Finish: black aluminium
Goal: higher-output coverage for a larger, higher-traffic space

When a room outgrows the thinnest options

Not every room should default to the thinnest possible speaker — a large reception lounge with hard marble and glass surfaces benefits from the additional headroom a deeper enclosure like Cedar provides, because harder surfaces reflect more sound energy and a system pushed near its limit in that environment sounds strained well before a system with more reserve capacity does. The 62.9mm of extra depth over Cane bought meaningful acoustic capability that mattered more here than the last few millimetres of visual disappearance would have.

Why Cedar over a thinner speaker

Cedar trades depth for output: at 74.9mm, it's considerably deeper than Cane's 23mm or Bonsai's 12mm, but that extra enclosure volume delivers 100W RMS and 96dB sensitivity against Cane's 50W/92dB — meaningfully more headroom for a larger reception space with harder, more reflective marble and glass surfaces that can otherwise make a room sound bright and fatiguing at volume.

4Ω impedance and amplifier sizing

Cedar runs at 4Ω impedance rather than the 8Ω common across XSCACE's thinner models, which changes the amplifier math — a 4Ω load draws roughly double the current of an equivalent 8Ω load at the same voltage, so the amplifier driving it needs to be rated for 4Ω operation specifically, not just have spare wattage in reserve.

The system

A Lucifer 4 four-channel amplifier (250W RMS per channel into 8Ω, correspondingly higher into 4Ω) drives the Cedar array, with a Juniper subwoofer (350W RMS, 25Hz–200Hz) extending low-frequency response across the reception space.