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Estelon Extreme
|I would say at the outset that, generally, I am not a fan of big speakers. Over the years, I have heard too many installations in homes and recording studios where big bandwidth systems have ...read more -
Meridian Audio DSP7200SE loudspeakers
|Meridian is not your average hi-fi company by any means. It has always been technologically advanced, a state of affairs that became apparent to the world at large when MLP or Meridan Lossless Packing was ...read more -
Sonus faber Olympica II
|We can dance around this, but the Sonus faber Olympica II represents the right answer to an increasingly important question in audio: Can we have style AND substance? The usual answer is to dismiss anything ...read more -
Issue 118 Hot Preview - GoldenEar Technology Triton One
|Hi-Fi+ Issue 118 will be available from December 4. As ever, the magazine is stuffed to the gills with the latest and greatest audio equipment, but here is a preview of one of the hottest ...read more -
Triangle Antal Anniversary loudspeakers
|We are all a little late to the party. Triangle was founded in 1980 and this special trio of loudspeakers celebrates the company’s 30th anniversary. However, the range was completed last year. So, we’re only ...read more -
MartinLogan Montis
|MartinLogan has a special place in the heart of audiophile enthusiasts. Despite many on the English audio scene feeling that the UK ‘owns’ electrostatics through the medium of Quad, MartinLogan sells well here. And the ...read more -
Magnepan 3.7i planar magnetic/ribbon and DWM woofer loudspeaker system
|Founded in 1969, Magnepan is a Minnesota-based maker of critically acclaimed, high value dipole loudspeakers that are based upon planar magnetic and ribbon-type drivers (technical areas where company founder Jim Winey holds a number of ...read more -
Vivid Audio Giya G3
|The curvy Vivid Giya G3 loudspeaker is a smaller version of the Giya G2, itself a Giya G1 ‘mini-me’. And at CES this year, the company showed a Giya G4 and it’s even smaller. If ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins big week (part 2)
|Following the announcement of a new hook-up with Volvo and involvement with the Maria Callas studio project, Bowers & Wilkins could afford a few seconds break before announcing a whole new line of loudspeakers, the ...read more -
First Listen: GoldenEar Triton One floorstanding loudspeaker
|When industry icon Sandy Gross founded GoldenEar Technology several years back, his new company’s first product was the Triton Two floorstanding loudspeaker—a model whose core technologies set the pattern for a number of GoldenEar models ...read more -
Kudos Audio Cardea Anniversary Super 20 loudspeakers
|Since 1991, Kudos has been building loudspeakers according to an elegant philosophy – keep it simple! It’s a very sound basis for speaker design, if you will excuse the pun. Basically, it means don’t add ...read more -
Is size important?
|In the audio world, the British are perhaps best known for making great sounding small loudspeakers. It may well be that we are experts in other audio fields (we have a number of excellent turntable ...read more -
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