GOOD SURROUND-SOUND IS A MOVIE-MAGIC MUST
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Just as Cambridge Audio appears to aim higher and higher with its dedicated two-channel electronics, it keeps one eye on the home cinema high street with a revamped iteration of its SX loudspeaker range. Affordable models with a neat finish and compact dimensions, these could find plenty of admirers. How affordable? Just £ for a … Read more
One of the loudspeakers that I owned in my audio infancy was the full-range PSB Stratus Goldi. Compared to my Snell E/IV, it offered a grand sound, not to mention a very attractive gleaming piano-black finish. So, when TAS editor Robert Harley mentioned the prospect of reviewing PSB’s new flagship loudspeaker, it brought back nostalgic … Read more
In a nutshell, if Monitor Audio keeps making loudspeakers as good as this, Mark Craven will keep raving about them. Read our MONITOR AUDIO SILVER 7G 5.0 Review. Auditioned here is a multichannel system assembled from the seventh generation of Monitor Audio’s midrange Silver Series. There are, naturally, changes aplenty, but these speakers have a … Read more
A floorstander different to most else, Q Acoustics Concept 50 gets Noel Keywood’s attention. Read our Q ACOUSTICS CONCEPT 50 Review. I found many things curiously interesting about the Concept 50 floorstander from Q Acoustics, important things that distinguish it. But the company don’t mention them. Are they meant to be secret? Perhaps. I’ll get … Read more
Sometimes, when discussing top-end products from big names in high-end audio, we describe them as if they were royalty. Maybe it’s the rarity or that they rub shoulders with the audio world’s great and good, but often we treat them with the kind of respect one might offer to those born to the purple. However, … Read more
Most loudspeakers have characteristics that tell you that you are listening to a loudspeaker. Even with your eyes closed, it’s not too difficult to discern that there isn’t a grand piano in the room but instead a pair of loudspeakers attempting to reproduce the sound of that instrument. This, it would seem, is due in … Read more
The Founder series replaces Paradigm’s Prestige series as its second-highest line of stereo/ home-theater speakers, just below the flagship Persona series. The Founders sell for real-world prices, but they are significantly advanced in design and cosmetics. The 80F’s are not only in the middle of the Founde price range, which varies from $ to $ … Read more
The Silver 300 7G is the seventh generation of Monitor Audio’s popular and affordably priced Silver Series. It’s a three-way, four driver, bass-reflex design with dual ports exiting from the enclosure’s back panel. The handsome, columnar midsize tops out at about 42″ tall. At 7″ the front baffle is just wide enough to accommodate the … Read more
There’s something special about a tower speaker that takes two people to carry up a flight of stairs. High-end audio prizes size and weight, and in some cases that preference is borderline fetishistic, but for a tower speaker mass plays a real role, given the delicate balance of physical motion and stasis inherent in a … Read more
In my April 2020 review of Fyne Audio’s inexpensive F301 standmount loudspeakers, I wrote, “The Fyne F301s impressed with their exceptional rendering of soundstage width and depth, reasonably wide dynamic range, extended low end (for their size), and exuberant, I-can’t-stop- spinning-records presentation. The Fynes presented a finely layered, spatially convincing soundstage with images that were … Read more
Focal aria k2 906 review – Focal release an Aria 906 loudspeaker with K2 sandwich cone. Noel Keywood checks it out. Focal like using different loudspeaker cone materials – I recall both flax (Kanta) and slatefibre (Chora) in their loudspeakers – and they sounded good. By this I mean “neutral”, unlike the bright sound of … Read more
Sounding like something from an Ian Fleming novel, the Spektor 6 is the Danish company’s most affordable floorstander. Despite this, few of the company’s design flourishes seem to have been omitted on what sounds like a speaker that’s more expensive than its sticker price. Read our DALI Spektor 6 Review. It has a pair of … Read more