Should high-end loudspeakers's designers build the crossovers in separate enclosures like very few do? The Aida II has four crossover points for the eight drivers total; 55, 150, 200, and 3000Hz. It's a complex speaker design as mentioned in the review.
The review in the first page includes a link to a video for their installation in Michael's room, quite something. And yes you can see that the Alexx's are gone, as it is also referred @ couple more places in the review.
When I've first read the review I was of course interested by Michael's comparison with Wilson and previous Sonus Faber speakers, but another manufacturer that crossed my mind very fast was Magico. They are not attractive as the Sonus Fabers with their simple boxy looking bodies. It's inside that counts, and what comes out outside...not the looks.
For looks the Aida II takes the grand prize. And from the reviews audio reviewers are impressed with their sound delivery too. The measurements, very secondary because of logistics, aren't too shabby either. We take what we need from what we know and understand and put ourselves in Michael's shoes, experience and own room, and what a room it is, what a man he is, what a reviewer and what an analog audio music expert, and digital too. He deserves everything that is inside his room, the domain of a man who has hardly enough space to walk around, to sit down, but mainly listening while engulfed by the magic of music.
He must be dreaming of the Aida II, @ the next time two young men are going to be back and reinstall them for a longer review time...for a new reference time.
I should go to analog planet's blog and ask him ... highest respect for a passionate motivator in the affairs of music sound reproduction in the next highest level.
The best is yet to come.