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Listening #199: Falcon & Graham LS3/5A
It all started when I moved my playback system from my 11' by 16' living room to my 12' by 17' family room: The latter has proven the better-sounding setting, and it's also sunnier and more...
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Dutch & Dutch 8c active loudspeaker system
At first glance, this active, DSP-controlled loudspeaker system, with dynamic drivers firing to front and rear, may seem an alien invader from the world of recording and mastering monitors made by such...
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Wharfedale Linton Heritage loudspeaker
A dale is a broad valley. The Yorkshire Dales are broad, picturesque valleys in Northern England, mostly named for the rivers or streams that run through them. One of these is Wharfedale, which is the...
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Dragonfire Acoustics Mini Dragon DFA 2.1 desktop playback system
Ever go on a blind date? If you've been on more than one, you know what it's like to encounter an entirely new product at an audio show: Sometimes it's love at first listen, your only question being,...
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PSB Alpha P5 loudspeaker
It is said that while any competent engineer can design a superb loudspeaker if allowed an unlimited bill of materials, the true test is being able to produce a great-sounding, budget-priced speaker...
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Elac Carina BS243.4 loudspeaker
No one thinks I have a good memory, but I can easily remember a few sentences from my March 2016 review of Elac's Debut B6 loudspeaker. The sentence I remember best: "I might be able to forgive you for...
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Q Acoustics Concept 300 loudspeaker
When I performed the measurements of the Q Acoustics Concept 500 loudspeaker to accompany Thomas J. Norton's review in March 2019, I was impressed by what I found. The floorstanding Concept 500 offers...
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Sonus Faber Olympica Nova 1 loudspeaker
The Sonus Faber Olympica Nova 1 ($6500/pair) is the company's latest stand-mounted, two-way monitora lineage that began with their first speaker, the Minima, which I reviewed some 24 years ago. Like...
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ProAc Response D2R loudspeaker
Between the mid-1980s and late 2000s, Stereophile published 14 reviews of loudspeakers from England's ProAc Limited. First came Dick Olsher's review of the ProAc Tablette in 1984. The latestuntil...
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Listening #208: Rogers LS3/5a
In my January 2020 Listening column, I wrote about a place where three things overlap: the joys (and benefits) of being a record collector, the natural tendency to grow and challenge ourselves as...
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Wilson WATT loudspeaker
Landmarks in speaker design have been few and far between. There are a few certain contenders: in the UK, the original Quad Electrostatic and the ESL-63 qualify, while the Celestion SL600 scored a big...
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Fyne Audio F301 loudspeaker
Located outside Glasgow, in a geographical area that's also home to Linn Products and Tannoy Ltd.and also near the storied whisky distilleries of Aberfeldy and Blair AthollFyne Audio got off to a...
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Totem Acoustic Skylight loudspeaker
Reviewing a new loudspeaker from Totem feels like destinyas if a formative moment 30 years ago has come full circle. That's because the first genuine audiophile speaker I ever owned was Totem's...
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Tannoy Revolution XT 6 loudspeaker
I've been wrestling with my elders about new ways to measure loudspeakers, lobbying for methods that might collaborate more directly with a listener's experience. And wouldn't you know? Right in the...
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GoldenEar BRX (Bookshelf Reference X) loudspeaker
Loudspeaker manufacturer GoldenEar Technology was founded in 2010 by a team led by Sandy Gross, who over the decades was responsible for a succession of affordable high-performance loudspeakers from...
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Polk Legend L100 loudspeaker
Summer! COVID-19 notwithstanding, summerwarmth, flowers, leaves on treeshas descended on Greenwich Village, my New York City home for the past 30 years. What hasn't descended are tourists, belching...
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Marten Oscar Duo loudspeaker
At High End Mässan 2015Stockholm, Sweden's big audio showMarten planned to show off its finest loudspeaker to the hometown crowd. Marten took the hotel's largest demo room, located at the prime...
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Alta Audio Alyssa loudspeaker
It was a "Wow!" audio moment I'll never forget. It happened just after Ladies Who Lunch, our regular Friday afternoon lunch-n-chat for audio poobahs at the Grand Sichuan restaurant in Chelsea. It was...
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Celestion SL6S loudspeaker
Let me tell you how I spent the month of May 1987: I had been musing about a comment made by J. Gordon Holt following the 1986 Summer CES that it seemed that the loudspeaker High End was populated...
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Three December 2020 FollowUps
Three products are the subjects of lengthy followup reviews in the December issue of Stereophile: MBL's Noble Line N31 CD player-D/A processor, the GoldenEar BRX loudspeaker, and Alta Audio's Alyssa...
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