They light up the room like no other speakers. The shiny yellow front not only adds colour to your home, it mirrors the sound from the floor-standing Focal speakers astonishingly well. They are also available in other colours on the angled front made from moulded polymer, such as blue, brown, beige, black and white, but …
“Go and hear them,” I tried, but my foreign colleagues did not look very convinced, when I met them at the High End trade fair in Munich in 2018. Instead, they smiled overbearingly when I told them about the new JBL speakers that debuted at the show that year and that sounded in a completely …
When Bowers & Wilkins retired their CM series in favor of the 700 S2 series, more people cheered. Including myself. Because, while the CM series had some good models, it also appeared to be somewhat inconsistent. How was it possible to follow up the good CM10 with the belly splash of a CM8 S2? With …
It does not show on the outside, but these slim speakers keep a little secret inside, which is suitable for astonishing fresh listeners. Truth be told, I’m a little amazed myself every time I hear a PMC speaker, even though I’ve heard many of their speakers before. There is something special about the way they play …
Ever since I was a little boy in the 1980s, I have loved hi-fi and good, powerful sound. My father was a hi-fi enthusiast to the bone, and that kind of thing tends to run in the family. But even though my dad used to spend a lot of money on hi-fi and record cleaning …
Something must be wrong. I looked over all of the cables, connections and checked that all the elements were in phase, let alone connected. The sound from the brand new signature version of the Bowers & Wilkins 702 S2 sounded flat, undynamic and stuffy. It was certainly not what I expected when I put the …
Some are willing to go further than others in the search for the perfect sound. In the subject of speakers, this is a real craft art. And with the Kaya 90, South African – and British – Vivid Audio has given itself an extra challenge. Namely, to make a relatively compact floor-standing speaker behave as …
I could tell it felt like a déja vu. That I had been here before. Because it absolutely looked like something I had been involved in before, in 2013 if I remember correctly. I had to check. The answer was 2014. At least that was when I published the test of Sonus faber Olympica III, …
Wireless active speakers are gaining ground fast. In the last two years, we have written more about this topic than throughout Lyd & Bilde’s lifetime. But is it possible in the highest tier, or is there still a need for good old-fashioned analog technology in the high-end segment? Dali clearly believes that the time has …
Buchardt Audio is a successful Danish entrepreneurial story. Since its inception in 2014, the midget company has gone from success to success with its speakers, which today are exported to many countries. In fact, the success has been so great that we have had to wait a long time to make a couple of the …
You notice it pretty quickly. At first, there’s something indefinable that makes the speakers seem a bit special. It may be the design that first seduces, until your chin drops and you sit transfixed, like a numpty with an open mouth, just listening. After a while, you’re hooked. You can’t get enough, and start pulling …
Klipsch is no lightweight. Neither on the speaker market nor their products physically. This is the speaker manufacturer you go to when you want speakers that can muster high volume without breaking up into the nasty and sharp sound that characterise many “party speakers” on the market. Several of the Klipsch’s speakers certainly sound pretty …