Articles
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PMC twenty5.26i floorstanding loudspeaker
|PMC has built its brand on a cabinet loading technology that had all but disappeared when the company was launched in 1991. The transmission line became the advanced transmission line or ATL in Pete Thomas ...read more -
Dynaudio Heritage Special stand-mount loudspeaker
|If there’s a speaker brand that can rightly use the word ‘heritage’; it’s Dynaudio. The Danish company has been making high-performance drive units and both pro and domestic loudspeakers of all kinds since 1977 and ...read more -
Wilson Audio SabrinaX floorstanding loudspeaker
|Every time I write the word ‘SabrinaX’ it looks funny. I want to pronounce it ‘sab-rine-inks’ even though it is actually ‘Sabrina-X’. I’m getting this out of the way first because it’s the only bit ...read more -
Sonus faber Lumina III floorstanding loudspeakers
|Sonus faber makes some of the best looking, most sumptuous loudspeaker cabinets money can buy. That’s not exactly a controversial statement; the lute-shaped, curved cabinets and rich finishes synonymous with the Italian brand are the ...read more -
Kudos Titan 707 floorstanding loudspeaker
|This review has been a while in the making – I first started talking to the Kudos guys at shows about a decade ago. In the loudspeaker equivalent of the ‘snog, marry, avoid’ game (which ...read more -
ProAc K1 stand-mount loudspeaker
|I have never heard a bad ProAc speaker, and over the years, I have enjoyed them in many systems in many listening rooms. The K1 is the smallest of the K range, where the prefix ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins 702 Signature floorstanding loudspeaker
|The advantages of large-scale manufacturing become immediately apparent on unpacking this loudspeaker; the quality of finish is in the Premier League and distinctly higher than is achieved by most smaller companies at this price point. ...read more -
Magnepan LRS planar quasi-ribbon-type dipole loudspeaker
|In a world where many loudspeaker manufacturers offer products based on the ‘very high performance = very high prices’ formula, the US-based firm Magnepan builds speakers that prove sophisticated performance can be surprisingly affordable. Magnepan’s ...read more -
ELAC Vela FS 408 floorstanding speakers
|For a company that’s fast closing in on its 95th year in business, ELAC certainly took its sweet time to become a loudspeaker manufacturer. Taking more than two decades to transition from sonar technology to ...read more -
Audiovector R6 Arreté floorstanding loudspeaker
|A sign of just how odd the audio world can be, I feel the Audiovector R6 Arreté’s biggest problem is it’s too damn cheap! And yet, this is a loudspeaker – from a company known ...read more -
Burmester B38 floor standing loudspeaker
|Burmester has, for most of its forty-plus years, been widely acknowledged as one of the pure-bred members of the High-Fidelity Royal Family. This reputation has helped gain its enviable position and brand recognition – lest ...read more -
REL Carbon Special subwoofer
|REL has come a long way since a Welshman started it in search of more realistic organ pipe sounds in his sitting room. Richard Lord sold the company to Sumiko over a decade ago, the ...read more -
Vienna Acoustics Beethoven Baby Grand Reference loudspeakers
|There is a perplexing and occasionally bizarre dichotomy that exists at the heart of audio fashion and, by extension (or perhaps as a result of) reviewing. The products that get the most attention seem to ...read more -
SVS SB-2000 Pro subwoofer
|In the past, subwoofers were broadly divided between those that made a lot of noise for cinema, and the more subtle, faster subs that added some gentle reinforcement to audio systems. And generally, the divide ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Mads Klifoth, Audiovector
|Danish loudspeaker expert Audiovector is no stranger to the pages of Hi-Fi+. The company has picked up many awards for its loudspeaker designs (both in this magazine and elsewhere) and many of the reviewers have ...read more