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Monitor Audio Bronze 200 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Money-no-object, no-holds-barred, uncompromised and uncompromising loudspeakers are dead easy to build. Just use the most expensive and highest-performing components you can find, commission a hot-shot industrial designer to help with the looks, spend as long ...read more -
Audio Enthusiasts Get Together in London – Sunday September 19th
|German Physiks will be demonstrating their HRS-130 omnidirectional loudspeakers at an audio get-together organised by the Audio Enthusiasts Facebook group. Also participating will be Gekko cables, Funk Firm turntables and our London dealer Ajay Verma ...read more -
Mission QX Mk II series
|From the Mission press release Cambridgeshire, England – Since its formation in 1977, British speaker manufacturer Mission has been famed for delivering compelling musicality at affordable prices. The company’s QX Series is a perfect example ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins 800 D4 Series
|From the Bowers & Wilkins press release How do you improve on the world’s most successful and iconic range of high-end loudspeakers? It’s a challenge that has occupied the past six years for the finest ...read more -
Neat Acoustics Orkestra floorstanding speaker
|The musician who appreciates good audio equipment and the hi-if enthusiast who is also a serious musician are rare breeds. Musicians often don’t seem to be bothered about sound quality. They appear to hear everything ...read more -
Acoustic Energy AE520 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Where do you stand on the notion of ‘quantity’? Do you subscribe to the idea that ‘more is more’? If you like being able to see, as well as hear, an overt indication of the ...read more -
Burmester BC150 exclusive first look
|We were invited by Burmester to visit Berlin at the time of the launch of the new BC150 floorstanding loudspeaker. This new speaker design is an impressive statement; not only in terms of its physical ...read more -
PMC twenty5.26i floorstanding loudspeaker
|PMC has built its brand on a cabinet loading technology that had all but disappeared when the company was launched in 1991. The transmission line became the advanced transmission line or ATL in Pete Thomas ...read more -
Wilson Audio SabrinaX floorstanding loudspeaker
|Every time I write the word ‘SabrinaX’ it looks funny. I want to pronounce it ‘sab-rine-inks’ even though it is actually ‘Sabrina-X’. I’m getting this out of the way first because it’s the only bit ...read more -
Sonus faber Lumina III floorstanding loudspeakers
|Sonus faber makes some of the best looking, most sumptuous loudspeaker cabinets money can buy. That’s not exactly a controversial statement; the lute-shaped, curved cabinets and rich finishes synonymous with the Italian brand are the ...read more -
Kudos Titan 707 floorstanding loudspeaker
|This review has been a while in the making – I first started talking to the Kudos guys at shows about a decade ago. In the loudspeaker equivalent of the ‘snog, marry, avoid’ game (which ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins 702 Signature floorstanding loudspeaker
|The advantages of large-scale manufacturing become immediately apparent on unpacking this loudspeaker; the quality of finish is in the Premier League and distinctly higher than is achieved by most smaller companies at this price point. ...read more -
Magnepan LRS planar quasi-ribbon-type dipole loudspeaker
|In a world where many loudspeaker manufacturers offer products based on the ‘very high performance = very high prices’ formula, the US-based firm Magnepan builds speakers that prove sophisticated performance can be surprisingly affordable. Magnepan’s ...read more -
ELAC Vela FS 408 floorstanding speakers
|For a company that’s fast closing in on its 95th year in business, ELAC certainly took its sweet time to become a loudspeaker manufacturer. Taking more than two decades to transition from sonar technology to ...read more -
Audiovector R6 Arreté floorstanding loudspeaker
|A sign of just how odd the audio world can be, I feel the Audiovector R6 Arreté’s biggest problem is it’s too damn cheap! And yet, this is a loudspeaker – from a company known ...read more