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GoldenEar Technology Triton Seven loudspeakers
|I enjoy über-high-end audio equipment as much as the next fellow, but I nevertheless have an abiding fondness for overachieving products that deliver high levels of performance for reasonable sums of money. I suppose this ...read more -
KEF R900 Loudspeaker
|It is hard to believe that anyone with even a passing interest in things audio could have remained either ignorant of or indifferent to KEF’s Blade loudspeaker. “Job done”, might be the conclusion. After all, ...read more -
Engelholm Audio announce new "Staff" Loudspeakers
|Staff: Ceramic drivers for low and mids and a ribbon tweeter for highs - the perfect combination! Based on the success of the award winning Solo, reviewers favorite Solo M and the highly rated Trill, ...read more -
Nightingale Concentus CTR2 loudspeaker
|I’ve heard the Nightingale described as an Italian variation on the panel theme. Like classic panels, it’s a dipole design, though it differs from most current models in using conventional moving-coil drive units, and housing ...read more -
Magico S1 loudspeaker
|In just a few years, Magico has gone from being a brand no-one had heard of, to being a brand that helps shape today’s high-end audio industry. Although this comes down to many factors, it’s ...read more -
Sonus Faber Venere 2.0 loudspeakers
|Since its acquisition by Fine Sounds, Sonus Faber faced something of a conundrum. Its higher end models, like the Homage series, retained – and in some cases, improved upon – the sumptuous finish and refined ...read more -
MonoPulse Model S
|MonoPulse is one of Britain’s smaller speaker makers, but it has been around for more than a decade, has a very distinctive range of speakers, enjoys a steady demand (especially from Scandinavia), and seems perfectly ...read more -
ELAC FS 509 VX-JET loudspeakers
|Some of the most innovative things done with a loudspeaker box today come out of the ELAC factory. The company’s use of Heil Air Motion Transducer tweeters, ‘Crystal Membrane’ aluminium composite mid-bass units and now ...read more -
Neat Ultimatum XL10
|Last year I was invited to hear the ultimate member of the Neat Acoustics Ultimatum series, the as then unheard XL10, being launched in Milan... on the end of quite the saddest high-end system the ...read more -
Wilson Benesch Cardinal (Hi-Fi+) Part 2 of 2
|I spent many pages in Issue 96 heaping praise on Wilson Benesch’s new flagship, full-range loudspeaker, the Cardinal. You could argue that they hit a new triple high for UK speaker designs, of engineering excellence, ...read more -
Wilson Benesch Cardinal (Hi-Fi+) Part 1 of 2
|The world of high-end loudspeakers is increasingly falling into two camps: the (traditional) one where ‘specially modified’ OEM drivers are combined with in-house cabinets – and where just about everything is built in-house. But, what ...read more -
Avalon Idea loudspeaker
|Avalon’s Idea loudspeaker has one drawback that we’ll get out of the way quickly; the name. Calling a loudspeaker ‘Idea’ almost gifts every writer, commentator, blogger and forum denizen a healthy succession of puns. It’s ...read more -
Spendor A3 loudspeakers (Hi-Fi+ issue 86)
|Spendor has carved a name for itself in recent years. Not content with simply being the custodian of BBC designs, it has also delivered a range of loudspeakers that retain much of the original Spendor ...read more -
Rega RP6, Naim SuperUniti and Focal 1028Be system
|The co-mingling of Naim and Focal last year came as something of a surprise to many in the industry. How could two brands whose identities are so closely aligned with their places of origin coexist ...read more -
National Physical Laboratory RAOS mapping
|The National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, on the southwest corner of London is one of those standards laboratories where the world keeps its kilogrammes, meters and moles. It also develops blue-sky metrology (the science of ...read more