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Focal unveils a brand-new loudspeaker: Aria K2 936
|From the Focal press release: Since 2013, Aria has been a leading range among high-performing and expressive Hi-Fi loudspeakers. With its natural flax cone and sleek style, Aria marked a decisive point in Focal’s history. ...read more -
Mellow Acoustics FrontRo hybrid electrostatic loudspeaker
|Mellow Acoustics FrontRo is a very unusual looking — make that ‘unique’ looking — loudspeaker. That’s partly because it’s a hybrid electrostatic, but that is only one contributing factor. Designed by Josh Ford, the FrontRo ...read more -
PMC fact.12 Signature floorstanding loudspeaker
|The three-strong fact range from PMC covers a lot of ground. Originally launched in the ‘teens’, the first fact-trio consisted of a fact.3 stand-mount, the fact.8 floorstander and the flagship fact.12 tower. Times have changed, ...read more -
Vivid Audio Kaya S12
|From the Vivid Audio press release September 25, 2020 -- West Sussex, UK – Vivid Audio has introduced the revolutionary Vivid Audio Kaya S12. Although the internal volume of this loudspeaker only measures 12 litres ...read more -
YG Acoustics Vantage floorstanding loudspeaker
|The Vantage is the newest floorstanding loudspeaker from the Arvada, Colorado-based firm YG Acoustics—a model many of us did not see coming. I say this because the Vantage is in essence a three-way, three-driver, tower-type ...read more -
Wilson Audio SabrinaX
|From the Wilson Audio press release The Chronosonic XVX® is Wilson Audio’s most ambitious and complex production loudspeaker to date. Daryl Wilson and his team of designers and engineers borrowed some of its technology from ...read more -
Introducing the New R 6-Series from Audiovector
|Since 1979 we have designed, developed, and handcrafted our Audiovector loudspeakers in Copenhagen, Denmark, and today we can finally announce the launch of the new Audiovector R 6-series. A series of loudspeakers based on a ...read more -
Sonus faber and Fine Sounds UK
|3rd August 2020, Glenrothes, Scotland: McIntosh Group, the leading group in the high-end audio sector comprising some of the biggest and most iconic brands in the industry, including McIntosh Laboratory, Sonus faber, Audio Research and ...read more -
Hegel H190 integrated amplifier and Amphion Argon 7LS floorstanding loudspeakers
|We’ve put together a pairing for this review of the substantial yet understated Amphion Argon 7LS, floorstanding loudspeakers and the Hegel H190 integrated amplifier which, with its built-in DAC and generous 150W output offers pretty ...read more -
REL Acoustics S/510 subwoofer
|We’ve taken a little bit of a hiatus with subwoofers of late, for an odd reason. Of recent years, our reviews have tended to be mostly of REL subwoofers (and a few notable exceptions like ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins 700 Series Signature
|Earlier this month, we attended an e-press conference about the two new models forming the 700 Signature range. This is not a replacement to the 700 Series nor is it intended to be an alternative ...read more -
Magico A1 stand-mount loudspeaker
|If there’s one thing all audio people think is ‘a done deal’, it’s the sealed-box two-way standmount loudspeaker. We’ve been there and done that, whether it was an LS3/5a, a Linn Kan, or any one ...read more -
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Triangle Borea BR03 stand-mount loudspeakers
|“Never mind the quality, feel the width”. Citing the title of a ‘60s UK sitcom is not the most zeitgeisty way to begin a review, I realise – but it’s nevertheless appropriate, for no other ...read more -
ELAC Concentro S 509
|From the ELAC GmbH press release: Kiel, May 2020: A feast for the eyes, a precision tool… and wholeheartedly dedicated to music: the ELAC Concentro S 509 is a distinctively styled loudspeaker with an impressive ...read more