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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 -
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