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Fyne Audio F500SP loudspeaker
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...
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MayFly MF-201 loudspeaker
If you've ever read Homer's Iliad, you probably remember the Catalog of Ships at the beginning. It's an exhaustive record of the contingents the Achean army deployed against Troy, naming the...
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Vivid Kaya S12 loudspeaker
Back when Steve Urkel (in the sitcom Family Matters, portrayed by Jaleel White) was showing everybody the best way to dress (and do property damage), my friend Ken Kessler, the high-level audio scribe...
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Gramophone Dreams #59: the Ojas System, EJ Jordan Marlow loudspeaker
Look closely at the audio system in the photo. It belongs to my friend, and fellow audio seeker, Devon Turnbull (aka Ojas). Notice every object in the room, particularly the arrangement of amplifiers,...
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Three May Issue FollowUp Reviews
Michael Fremer wrote about the Paradox phono preamplifier in the March 2022 Analog Corner, Jim Austin reviewed the CH Precision D1.5 CD/SACD player/transport in March 2022, and Herb Reichert included...
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Fleetwood Sound Company DeVille SQ loudspeaker
Oswalds Mill Audio's products espouse a sort of steam-punk-meets-modern visual style, but the company's philosophies are straight from hi-fi's '50s and '60s glory days, an era when idler-drive...
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Genelec G Three active loudspeaker
My review samples of Genelec's G Three powered loudspeaker came with a little hand-sized green and tan cardboard card featuring a poem in bold black letters dated 1898: At the cottage window a little...
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Sonus faber Omnia wireless loudspeaker
Pop quiz. What does the following verbiage describe? And what does it mean? "It's about what we love the most. It's about what we hate the most. It's about what we wait for but never happens....
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MB Quart MB 280 loudspeaker
A new name to me, West German company MB Quart GmbH is, in fact, the reincarnation of the Peerless loudspeaker company that until 1983 used to be owned by New Yorkbased Electro Audio Dynamics (EAD)....
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Wharfedale 507.2 loudspeaker
Probably best-known in recent years for their best-selling "baby" speaker, the Diamond, Wharfedale is one of the UK's oldest manufacturers of loudspeakers. The company was the subject of a management...
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Mission 770 loudspeaker
Some audio experiences stick in your memory. For me, one such was in 1978, which I reminisced about in a 1987 review for Stereophile of the Mission PCM 7000 CD player, Mission 780 Argonaut...
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KLH Model Three loudspeaker
"Dear audio enthusiast." Those were the user manual's introductory words, not "Dear audiophile." I stared at them for a few seconds, letting the implication of that greeting sink in. I don't know if it...
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SVS Prime Pro wireless active loudspeaker
Patches was the first to exit the car, sporting a nose like an overripe tomato. Amid the sawdust-andtiger-dung smell that wafted through the bigtop, he nimbly extracted himself from the multicolored...
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MoFi Electronics SourcePoint 10 loudspeaker
"A 10" two-way?!?!" I couldn't help gasping in surprise when I unboxed the MoFi Electronics SourcePoint 10 standmounted loudspeakers, which cost $3699/pair. Some background is in order. Using a...
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Dynaudio Focus 10 active loudspeaker
Almost five years after I submitted my review of Dynaudio's Focus 200 XD class-D active bookshelf loudspeakermy first product review for Stereophileword of its imminent successor, the digital Focus...
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Gramophone Dreams #71: Heretic AD614 loudspeaker
Herb at the HiFi Loft. (Photo: Jason Tavares) I remember a Saturday morning around 30 years ago, when I just happened to be at Sound by Singer, the New York City audio salon, watching this wizardy...
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Moon by Simaudio Voice 22 loudspeaker
I'm picturing a gaggle of cigar-chomping Simaudio execs in an office discussing what to do about the fact that their high-end amplification lines have become so successful that their names have become...
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TAD CE1TX loudspeaker
The most money I've ever spent on a pair of loudspeakers was back in the early 1990s, when I bought a pair of used TAD TH-4001 wooden horns and their associated TD-4001 compression drivers. The TAD...
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Bowers & Wilkins 705 S3 loudspeaker
Over a lifetime of involvement in audio, I have had standmount speakersbookshelf speakers, as they were called back thenonly twice. My very first loudspeaker was a vinyl-wrapped fiberboard bookshelf...
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Acelec Model One loudspeaker
The Acelec Model One speakers I'm auditioning ($6495/pair) are not princesses in pink, or frog green, or made of some chemically distilled polypudding. Nor are they conventional-beyond-reason MDF boxes...
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