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Sonus faber Amati Homage Tradition floorstanding loudspeaker
|The long-running Homage series from Sonus faber pays tribute to the finest violin makers of the past with loudspeakers that look and sound fantastic. The Amati has long been the conventional top tower of the ...read more -
Triangle Esprit Australe EZ floorstanding loudspeaker
|I am going to try a spot of mass-hypnosis here. You are feeling calm and relaxed, relaxed and calm. You are feeling sleepier and sleepier. I want you to forget the word ‘price’ for the ...read more -
Meet Your Maker - Karl-Heinz Fink of Finkteam
|This one’s a little different because Fink Audio Consulting and Karl-Heinz Fink are not so much ‘maker’ as ‘gun for hire’. Well, almost: the company does make the Finkteam WM-4 loudspeaker (see below) and more ...read more -
Raidho TD-4.8 floorstanding loudspeakers
|By big loudspeaker standards, the Raidho TD‑4.8 isn’t actually that big. It stands about as tall as the average middle-aged European and its front baffle is about face-wide. It sits on two outriggers that give ...read more -
German Physiks HRS-130 floorstanding loudspeaker
|We are big fans of the German Physiks Unlimited Mk II, and not exactly dismissive of the whole omnidirectional loudspeaker concept as a whole, so the chance of looking at the more uncompromising HRS-130 floorstander ...read more -
Acoustic Energy AE1 Active powered standmount loudspeaker
|The Acoustic Energy AE1 is a long-standing fixture in the British audio firmament. The standmount loudspeaker has been around in some guise or another since 1987. We tested the AE1 Classic way back in Issue ...read more -
Focal Kanta No. 2 and Naim Audio Uniti Nova system
|Synergy – when a system works in harmony to produce a sound that is as good or better than the sum of its parts – is not guaranteed. Even when two companies work under the ...read more -
CH Precision, Wilson Benesch, and Nordost system
|Suggesting that high-end audio has anything in common with Little Orphan Annie might seem like a stretch, but in one way at least they share a reality: for audio pilgrims who sign up to the ...read more -
Audio Research, Sonus faber, Transparent cable system
|Audio Research, Sonus faber, and Transparent Cable: that’s basically high-end audio royalty, all rolled into one extremely elegant and competent system. OK, so two of the three brands (Audio Research and Sonus faber) are subsidiaries ...read more -
Neat Acoustics Iota Xplorer floorstanding loudspeaker
|We first saw Neat’s Iota as a cute compact loudspeaker that anyone could live with and grow to love. It then became the Iota Alpha, which is a bit bigger but still diminutive, and does ...read more -
Dynaudio Contour 30 floorstanding loudspeaker
|There’s an easy – but wrong-headed – dismissal of Dynaudio as just a safe pair of musical hands. The notion is understandable: the company makes very well-built loudspeakers with a significant amount of objective test ...read more -
Introducing the next step in the evolution of the M-Series from Scansonic
|With the introduction of the new M-Series from Scansonic HD, new materials and designs has been incorporated in the well-known M-Series. A new and different driver design, to reassure an even lower level of distortion ...read more -
Graham Audio VOTU floorstanding loudspeaker
|The name sounds like the title of a 1950s sci-fi movie: VOTU – the Voice Of The Universe! Graham Audio’s grand statement loudspeaker is a bold departure from a brand best known for products very ...read more -
Magnepan 30.7 four‑panel dipolar planar loudspeaker system
|The White Bear Lake, Minnesota-based loudspeaker manufacturer Magnepan never takes the launch of a new flagship model lightly and this is especially true in the case of the recently released four-panel 30.7 dipolar loudspeaker system ...read more -
MartinLogan Impression ESL 11A hybrid electrostatic loudspeaker
|Impression ESL 11A is part of the sextet of top-end floorstanding loudspeakers (as well as a duo of centre-channel speakers) that form MartinLogan’s Masterpiece Series. This is a series with true scope, ranging from the ...read more