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QUAD ESL 2812 electrostatic loudspeaker
|After much dropping of hints I was offered the chance to spend a couple of months living with the latest Quad Electrostatic speaker, the 2812. Many years ago I owned three different pairs of the ...read more -
Linn Akubarik
|The original Linn Isobarik was once the top dog on the flat earth. If you had a pair, driven by a Naim six-pack and with a fully loaded LP12 at the front in the 1980s, ...read more -
Usher BE20 DMD Dancer loudspeaker
|The Usher Be20 DMD, the top of its Dancer range, cost £15,750 per pair. For a loudspeaker this powerfully built in today’s market, that’s chicken feed. This is a solidly built piece of equipment (123kg ...read more -
Focal Aria 926
|Focal’s Aria range sits between the Chorus 800 and Electra line-ups and faces the tricky challenge of replicating some of the technology of the former rather closer in price to the latter. The Electra and ...read more -
Audiovector Si3 Signature Active Discreet
|We’ve come a long way in a very short time. A few years ago, the audio world was relatively stable; you bought a CD player and an amplifier, wired these to some loudspeakers, and you ...read more -
Tune Audio Prime Loudspeakers
|Manolis Proestakis of Tune Audio is a sensitive soul. As are his loudspeakers; the Prime tested here is rated at 93dB, and is thus ideal with amplifiers of the single-ended triode persuasion. Tune Audio’s range ...read more -
ELAC AIR-X active loudspeaker system
|Along with companies like Audiovector, ELAC has looked to the future of audio and concluded it lies in active loudspeakers driven by small digital hubs. This is known as AIR-X in ELAC parlance. However, although ...read more -
T.H.E. Newport Beach 2014 - Loudspeakers Part I
|Newport Beach is fast becoming an important audio destination, challenging Rocky Mountain Audio Fest and AXPONA for the top slot in the US audio show circuit. And, as befits a good audio show, there are ...read more -
T.H.E. Newport Beach 2014 - Loudspeakers Part II
|Hi-Fi+ has long been a firm believer in combining the best in audio with the best in cocktail-based engineering, and Newport Beach affords the best of both worlds. Here is my take on the best ...read more -
Scherer Evince
|There are some loudspeakers made for the common man, with universal appeal in sound quality and design. Thomas Scherer’s designs are diametrically and deliberately opposed to that ‘common man’ approach. His company’s top Evince model ...read more -
Follow-Up Listen: Magnepan DWM planar magnetic woofer panels
|If you happen to enjoy dipole planar loudspeakers such as those offered by Magnepan, then you may have discovered that there is a fair amount of online discussion as to whether those loudspeaker do or ...read more -
Spendor D7
|If you solely looked at the tweeters on a cross section of loudspeakers, very few would be easy to identify. The vast majority are built by a small number of companies, and as a result ...read more -
Estelon XC standmount loudspeaker
|For me, trying to capture the essence of any audio component can only be done through musical description. But as I have said in this magazine many times, we listen to systems and not individual ...read more -
The Absolute Sound's Illustrated History of High End Audio
|FINALLY! THE DEFINITIVE BEHIND-THE-SCENES HISTORY OF THE HIGH-END AUDIO INDUSTRY! We take you on an exclusive tour of the birth of the high end’s most iconic loudspeaker companies and their products. Packed with fascinating detail—including ...read more -
First Listen: Magnepan 3.7i loudspeaker
|Introduction: Over the past several years Magnepan made waves by re-vamping its loudspeaker product line from stem to stern, leading to the release of (in ascending order of price and performance) the New MMG, Super ...read more