Despite its decidedly non-French-sounding name*, Triangle is a completely French loudspeaker manufacturer that builds its speakers entirely in that country, including building its own drivers, of which its famous horn-loaded tweeter with its distinctive gold-coloured phase plug (as used on the company’s topline Magellan model), is the best-known.
Triangle was founded by Renaud De Vergnette in 1980, in the town of Soissons, which is approximately 100km north-east of Paris, and has remained there ever since. The town is one of the most ancient in France and during the Hundred Years War in 1429 was famously liberated by French troops under the command of Joan of Arc.
*In fact, the word triangle is spelled the same in both French and English. It also has exactly the same meaning in both languages: a two-dimensional shape with three sides and therefore three (tri) angles. However the French pronunciation is ‘tree-on-gleh’. The name of the company derives from the fact that De Vegnette’s first speaker, the Model 1180, had an almost triangular front baffle.
EQUIPMENT
The BR03 uses a new tweeter design from Triangle which the company calls an ‘EFS’ system: short-form for ‘Efficient Flow System’.
