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Quadral Aurum Altan Aktiv loudspeakers
|The limitations of many loudspeakers exist further up the chain. With the Quadral Aurum Altan, those limitations are predominantly between the ears of the listener. Quadral has joined a select group of audiophile loudspeaker makers ...read more -
Roksan Darius standmount loudspeaker
|Those with long, long memories might recall the original Darius. No, not the one from early Persian history; instead, think of the Darius from early Roksan history. That first Darius loudspeaker was all hard-edged black ...read more -
Wilson Audio Duette Series 2 loudspeaker
|Launched almost nine years ago, the original Duette was a combination of entry-point and Swiss Army Knife for Wilson Audio. The standmount two-way was designed to work in as many ways as possible (vertical, horizontal, ...read more -
Sonus faber Ex3ma
|Sonus faber celebrated its 30th anniversary with style. The Italian company gathered together its biggest, brightest and best distributors and dealers (plus a handful of the world’s press) for a lavish event in and around ...read more -
Anthony Gallo Acoustics Reference Strada 2 monitors with TR-3d subwoofer
|Anthony Gallo has always been an iconoclastic loudspeaker designer and thus his speakers neither look nor sound like the majority of their competitors. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Gallo’s otherworldly Reference Strada 2 ...read more -
Wilson Benesch 25th Anniversary Square One
|A quarter of a century ago, Wilson Benesch started making turntables from its Sheffield base in the UK. To celebrate the company’s 25th anniversary, we have teamed up with Wilson Benesch to give away a ...read more -
KEF X300A desktop speaker system
|Hi-fi magazines are not known for their interest in desktop systems that work with a computer, but this is changing. For many people, their computer is now their main source of music (and, vinyl revival ...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 -
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 -
Audience ClairAudient The ONE loudspeaker
|Audience’s The ONE is a desktop loudspeaker, with ideas way above its station. It’s a crossoverless, single full-range loudspeaker design (albeit with a rear-firing driver in passive radiator mode). There’s also a little wedge-shaped riser ...read more -
Spendor D1 news and commentary
|Spendor’s new £1,795 per pair D1 bookshelf loudspeaker is designed as a replacement for the popular SA1 and calls upon the technologies used in the company’s current D7 flagship floorstander. Optional dedicated and non-resonant stands ...read more