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Wilson Benesch Square Five loudspeaker
|Wilson Benesch’s recent brush with the top-end of loudspeaker design – the Cardinal – was a distinct success, but it remains a top-end loudspeaker, and those who cannot afford top-end loudspeakers, such lofty goals and ...read more -
JansZen zA2.1 Speaker Review
|The JansZen zA2.1 attempts to deliver the advantages of a full-range electrostatic speaker, but in a small-footprint suitable for medium-sized rooms. Unlike planar speakers, which almost all require a large room to really work their ...read more -
PMC fact.12 loudspeakers
|For the fact.12, PMC did not rely entirely on its own R&D facilities, but took advantage of one of the country’s most remarkable research institutes. The National Physical Laboratory in Teddington is probably visible from ...read more -
The Great Leap Forward
|I’ve recently been through several loudspeakers in the review process recently. And two in particular highlight a marked step-change in the way audio systems have sounded, and now sound. The two loudspeakers are the excellent ...read more -
Electrocompaniet Nordic Tone Model 1
|It was only when the pallet came off the truck that I realised what I had let myself in for. The Nordic Tone Model I speaker itself weighs a respectable 75kg, but add in the ...read more -
CES 2014: Loudspeakers, $15,000+
|If this year was the time of ‘Statement’ amplifiers, when it came to top-end loudspeakers, CES 2014 was more the year of filling in gaps in the portfolio. While there were new top-end loudspeakers to ...read more -
CES 2014: Loudspeakers under $15,000 - Part 4
|For this year’s CES event I focused my reporting efforts on two product categories, one of the most popular of which is Loudspeakers under $15,000 per pair. What drives this popularity, of course, is the ...read more -
CES 2014: Loudspeakers under $15,000 - Part 3
|For this year’s CES event I focused my reporting efforts on two product categories, one of the most popular of which is Loudspeakers under $15,000 per pair. What drives this popularity, of course, is the ...read more -
CES 2014: Loudspeakers under $15,000 - Part 2
|For this year’s CES event I focused my reporting efforts on two product categories, one of the most popular of which is Loudspeakers under $15,000 per pair. What drives this popularity, of course, is the ...read more -
CES 2014: Loudspeakers under $15,000 - Part 1
|For this year’s CES event I focused my reporting efforts on two product categories, one of the most popular of which is Loudspeakers under $15,000 per pair. What drives this popularity, of course, is the ...read more -
Triangle Signature Delta loudspeakers
|There are two ways of making a loudspeaker. The first, simplest and most common way is ‘get someone else to do it’. By relying on time-worn loudspeaker design criteria, and calling on an endless set ...read more -
Vivid GIYA G2 loudspeaker
|How many loudspeaker companies build all their own drive units and fit them into ground breaking cabinets? And how many of those companies are genuinely breaking new ground? By my calculation the answer is very ...read more -
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 -
The ProAc Response K6 Loudspeaker
|Once upon a time there was a little speaker that could and a bigger one that did; ProAc’s Studio 3 represented an early object of hi-fi desire as far as I was concerned (especially the ...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