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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 -
Raidho D-1 loudspeaker
|Raidho’s C-1.1 standmount manages to couple outstanding detail, analysis and musical insight with a sense of fun, and in the process creating a loudspeaker that proves quality is more important than quantity. It’s so good ...read more -
ELAC BS312 loudspeaker
|It’s an old adage – “you can’t squeeze a quart into a pint pot”. Or, in Star Trek speak, it’s Mr Scott saying, “Ye cannae change the laws of physics, Cap’n.” ELAC’s Line 300 series ...read more -
Triangle Magellan Duetto
|The baby of Triangle’s flagship Magellan range, it would be easy to dismiss the Duetto as being just another ported two-way standmount design. It’s not. It’s the distillation of years of the French brand’s distinctive ...read more -
Monitor Audio GX50 Loudspeaker
|There’s an embarrassment of riches in the sub-£1,000 loudspeaker category and, fortunately for me, I’ve been able to experience firsthand some of those bargains over the last few issues. For example, I recently wrote in ...read more -
Atohm GT1 loudspeaker
|Atohm is a brand better known than people know about. If that sounds like a contradiction, think on this: when it’s not making drive units (already a rarity) for its own loudspeakers like the GT1, ...read more -
Alacrity Audio Caterthun Classic
|It’s an iron age Scottish hill fort apparently. What this has to do with a company based in the south of England or the two-way speaker that has taken the name is not clear, but ...read more -
Linn Kiko Network Audio System
|In these difficult days for the quality end of the audio industry, you can no longer get by on a glorious past. Ask people out in the real world what constitutes a decent sound system ...read more -
Guru Junior Loudspeaker
|At the Bristol show in February the Guru distributor had pictures of a girl ‘chillaxing’ with a pair of Guru Junior speakers under the slogan ‘Swedes have more fun’. I guess if Ingmar Bergman had ...read more -
Wilson Audio Introduces the Duette Series-2 Loudspeaker
|(From the Wilson Audio press release) June 21, 2013 -- The original Duette was Wilson Audio’s first Special Applications Engineering™ product. It was designed to offer the timbrel neutrality, dynamic contrast, soundstage depth and transparency ...read more -
Morgan Audio RMS11 Active Loudspeaker (Hi-Fi+)
|The Morgan Audio RMS11 is a compact stand-mount loudspeaker. More important is the fact that it’s also an active loudspeaker, and that simple adjective separates it out from the overwhelming majority. Active drive is a ...read more -
Definitive Technology StudioMonitor SM 45 Loudspeakers (Hi-Fi+)
|Many audio enthusiasts associate the name Definitive Technology with so called “home theatre speakers,” but the fact is that the company also has roots that go deep in the area of affordable, high-performance monitors. Over ...read more -
PSB Imagine T2 5.1-channel Surround Sound System (Hi-Fi+)
|The Canadian firm PSB Speakers is known for building loudspeakers that give exceptional value for money, but even within a value-oriented brand certain models set themselves apart from their stable mates. In the PSB range, ...read more -
SVS Launches Ultra Speakers In The UK (Hi-Fi+)
|Range offers high-end design quality at class-busting prices. SVSound has built a reputation worldwide for high performance and high value by winning great acclaim for the brand’s active subwoofers. Similarly impressive engineering quality has now ...read more