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Klipsch The Nines integrated loudspeaker system
Do you remember your first really decent hi-fi system? It opened up your music, teased your brain with the possibilities of thrilling aural excitement, of dives to the bottom of the musical ocean....
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Thrax Audio Siren loudspeaker
Based in Bulgaria, European audio company Thrax has been active since 2009. Their ingenious and varied design approaches seen over several product lines have continued to intrigue me with their...
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Wharfedale Heritage Series 90th Anniversary Dovedale loudspeaker
When I first got interested in audio in the UK, in the 1960s, four English brands dominated the domestic loudspeaker scene: Goodmans (founded in 1923), Celestion (whose first loudspeaker was launched...
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McIntosh ML1 MkII loudspeaker
What was old is new again. McIntosh Laboratories has been in business long enough that they are able to bring new design thinking, materials, and construction methods to products from their extensive...
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Gramophone Dreams #86: Harbeth P3ESR XD loudspeaker and Nelson subwoofer/stand
After lifelike timbres and speed-train momentum, how a loudspeaker projects its energy into my room is the main thing that determines how my sound system feels as I listen to it. When I review...
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Franco Serblin Accordo Goldberg loudspeaker
As founder and chief designer of Sonus Faber, Franco Serblin designed and manufactured many loudspeakers of acclaimed high quality, mainly in box form. Nevertheless, he remained painfully aware that...
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Bowers & Wilkins 805 D4 Signature loudspeaker
The "Bowers" in the name of British manufacturer Bowers & Wilkins (B&W) refers to founder John Bowers, whom I got to know fairly well before he passed in 1987. In recent years, I've reviewed...
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Quad Revela 1 loudspeaker
Hi-fi's vintage-tech revival feels like a Don Draper fever dream. You know Draper, right? The smooth-talking ad man from Mad Men? In one episode, he pitches a new Kodak slide projector, but instead of...
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PS Audio Aspen FR5 loudspeaker
I remember the first PS Audio product: a simple phono stage. It was so simplea passive RIAA EQ filter flanked by a pair of primitive op-ampsthat when the schematic was made public, I built one...
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Totem Acoustic Element Fire V2 loudspeaker
Totem Acoustic was founded in 1987, in Montreal, Canada, by a former high school math teacher named Vince Bruzzese. The company's first product, the Model 1 loudspeaker, impressed me so much I bought a...
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Brilliant Corners #25: Devon Turnbull and the Klipsch-Ojas kO-R1 loudspeaker
"Paul Klipsch was a genius," Roy Delgado told me recently, with the sound of genuine amazement in his voice. "Me, I'm just a tinkerer." I've spoken to Delgado, Klipsch's chief audio engineer, a handful...
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Philharmonic Audio BMR Monitor loudspeaker
Let's get this out of the way: The BMR Monitor may be a monitor, but it isn't a bookshelf or desktop speaker any more than a yacht is a dinghy. Heave a slick-surfaced, 32lb BMR from its shipping...
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Gramophone Dreams #95: The Voxativ Hagen2 Monitor loudspeaker
I think I just found the perfect Herb speaker. It uses a hand-crafted 5" wide-range driver with a cone made from Japanese calligraphy paper. It rolls off around 50Hz at the bottom and 30kHz at the top....
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Technics SC-CX700 active loudspeaker system
The usual Specifications sidebar in this review is a nuts-and-bolts listing of the electrical and physical properties of the Technics SC-CX700 loudspeaker ($2999.99/pair), who made it and where, and a...
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Gramophone Dreams #96: Falcon 2024 Limited Edition LS3/5a loudspeaker, Lyra...
The story goes that starting in 1962, Malcolm Jones was KEF's "first employee," where he "did most of the design and development of the legendary KEF drive unitsthe B139, B200, B110, T15, T27and the...
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