Arke Audio Mikros speakers If a new product excites a reviewer, it does the more so when it’s from a totally new brand, and so we welcome Arke Audio into the audiophile arena with its growing range of passive loudspeakers. Joining the company’s two-way Solos launch model comes the more compact Mikros (from the Greek, […]
Bowers & Wilkins 707 S3 Prestige Edition speakers We tend to think of tweaks or small upgrades to products being the domain of smaller companies, often run by one or two people who won’t let it lie when it comes to squeezing maximum performance out of their creations. This desire to make an audio component […]
Xavian Unica speakers Not long ago, I had a great time reviewing a pair of Xavian Grande Unica loudspeakers. This time, the owner of Xavian brought me a pair of Unica monitors. The same idea, the same kind of wood, and the same drivers — minus the second woofer. Roberto Barletta makes his Unica speakers […]
Revival Audio Atalante 7 Évo speakers We are used to seeing small and medium sized speakers from Revival but the Atalante 7 Évo is a whole other kettle of drive units. There must be some other three-ways around that run a 15 inch bass driver but the only one that comes to mind is the […]
Creek Cymatics 6 speakers Creek Audio is famed for its electronics, founder Mike Creek launched his first amplifier the Creek 4040 in 1982. It’s a brand which has consistently provided great electronics for a reasonable outlay and that amp was the foundation of many a starter hi-fi system. Mike’s association with loudspeakers commenced when he […]
Oephi Ascendance 2 speakers Back in 2022, the Ascendance model name marked the access point to Oephi’s ecosystem of speakers and cables, a ground zero crucially assembled to express the Danish company’s deeply embedded ‘sonic purity’ values at an ‘accessible price’. These core values in turn were further refined to great effect by the Transcendence […]
Tangent Spectrum II X5 speakers Danish audio brand Tangent describes its history as ‘a story of sound and design’ for over two decades, it is part of the AV Industry Group which encompasses Lumene projection screens, Eltax and Elipson speakers, Norstone audio furniture. The company prides itself on remaining in touch with both technological developments and […]
Wharfedale Diamond 12.1i speakers Wharfedale! For those of who came into contact with audio kit in the 1970s and even the 1980s that name will ring many bells and perhaps fond memories too. I was a very impecunious law student (don’t ask!) but my flat-mate had one of the classic set ups of the era […]
Dali Sonik 3 speakers Sonik is the latest range from Danish loudspeaker brand Dali, and the Sonik 3 is the larger of two stand-mount designs to be launched alongside three floor-standing models, a dialogue speaker called Sonik Cinema and the On-Wall unit presumably intended for read/side channel installations. We concern ourselves here with the somewhat […]
PMC prophecy1 speakers There has now been a compact, two-way standmount in the PMC range for the best part of 30 years and the recipe that successive generations have been based on has been extremely consistent in that time. In one specific regard, the prophecy1 actually deviates from the script in that it’s no longer […]
Ophidian Seren speakers Reviewing hi-fi is frequently about fascinating juxtapositions. Analogue and digital are the background forces in opposition but, bubbling up from that, competing versions of sonic reality are undoubtedly the most diverting, as night and day differences can sometimes seem equally convincing. The phenomenon was thrown into sharp relief just after I’d reluctantly […]
Kerr Acoustic K200 speakers Kerr Acoustics may not be the largest speaker manufacturer in the UK, but they have quickly gained a high profile in all the right places. If you are a regular visitor to any of the UK hi-fi shows, you will likely have heard a pair of Kerr speakers, which are used […]