Monitor Audio Silver 100: For 45 years, Monitor Audio has been a significant player in the audio market. You can love their acoustics, you can ignore them, but it’s quite difficult not to encounter them at some point. Monitor Audio is well-known not only in audiophile circles; their speakers have been, and continue to be,…
Finding a great pair of desktop speakers is a surprisingly difficult task. For many manufacturers and consumers, they’re an afterthought, a pair of plastic boxes destined to turn yellow on a desk. This is a shame, considering how much time we spend at our computers, listening to music, and watching shows. Quality systems are few…
I was going to start this review in my usual way, telling a little story to set the scene. This time, it was going to be about how the ports on these floorstanders are so large that they could be compared to the penstocks of the Hoover Dam. But Michael, the editor, told me to…
Founded in Denmark in 1996 by Per Kristoffersen, Peak Consult has always played by its own rules. Instead of flooding the market with endless models, the brand has remained fiercely selective—today offering only a handful of loudspeakers. Among them, the Peak Consult El Diablo speaker is a smaller, more affordable version of their top-of-the-line Peak…
These days, the speaker market is all over the place. There are so many different kinds of tech and designs out there. But even with all that variety, a lot of us still hang onto old stereotypes: metal speakers are always too bright, horn tweeters are just for blasting sound, and any big speaker with…
Today, I’m going to share something unusual. I was recently called by a friend who had just moved from Russia to Plant City, Florida. He asked me to help set up his new audio system, and when I got there, I found something I had never worked with before: the Radiotehnika Vita 2.06 floorstanding speakers….
Elac has been in the loudspeaker business since the 1980s and has built a reputation for delivering excellent value across its product lines. The Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2 bookshelf speakers represent one of the company’s finest budget-friendly efforts to date. Check Out: ELAC Vela BS 404 Reviewed These speakers feel solid, are relatively unfussy about…
When I first unboxed the Klipsch The Sixes, I thought I knew exactly what to expect: just another pair of retro-styled bookshelf speakers. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Within minutes of playing them, my living room was filled with a sound so powerful and immersive that it completely changed how I listened to music….
Back in 1965, Kodak dropped this thing called Super 8 film, and it was kind of a big deal. For the first time, regular people could actually shoot their own home movies. Pretty cool, right? But… it was also expensive, kinda tricky to use, and the audio? Yeah, it was pretty bad. So it was…
In the world of high-end audio, flagship speakers are expected to follow certain rules: use a multitude of drivers, feature exotic cabinet shapes, and radiate an air of delicate luxury. The Klipsch RF-7III, the brand’s current reference, ignores them all. With its severe, no-nonsense design and a straightforward two-way approach, it seems to defy expectations….
