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Audiovector R 3 Arreté loudspeaker
My first encounter with an Audiovector loudspeaker was at the 2019 Toronto Audiofest. Driven by colorful (both sonically and visually) Alluxity electronics, the R 3s sounded pure and very fine. As I...
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Voxativ Ampeggio 2024 loudspeaker
Evaluating a loudspeaker that would become Stereophile's 2011 Product of the Year, Art Dudley, at the time the magazine's editor-at-large, wrote, "The Voxativ Ampeggio went beyond sounding good: More...
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GoldenEar Technology T66 loudspeaker
Loudspeaker company GoldenEar Technology was founded in 2010 by audio industry veteran Sandy Gross after he left Definitive Technology. With a design team based in Canada that included Martyn Miller,...
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Dynaudio Contour 30i loudspeaker
Ah, Denmark. Land of the Vikings and blue-eyed, blond-haired folk with faces sculpted just so. I loved my week there as a Stereophile correspondent and member of a scraggly scrum of audio journalists...
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Piega Coax 811 Gen2 loudspeaker
It's funny how we discover some music in unexpected, twisting ways. A friend recently sent me the real estate listing for a beautiful home in Deer Isle, Maine, about an hour from where I live. I gawked...
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SVS Ultra Evolution Pinnacle loudspeaker
How many times have you been told by parents and teachers that everything successful must be built on a strong foundation? It's true in music, where the low frequencies are the foundation the music...
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Avantgarde Duo SD iTRON G3 active loudspeaker
Active speakers make sense. The amplifiers, crossovers, and drivers are designed as a unit, so the design isn't compromised by the need to interface with components with unknown electrical or...
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Monitor Audio Gold 300 6G loudspeaker
An ancient connection: Monitor Audio began in 1972 when John Bartlett, founder of the innovative retail chain Audio T, introduced me to Mike Beeny, manager of an Audio T branch near Cambridge, and Mo...
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Sonus faber Sonetto V G2 loudspeaker
Here's a hard truth: A written review of a full-sized speakerany speaker, reallyis, at best, semi-useful. We all listen differently, we have different musical tastes, our system electronics are...
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Estelon X Diamond Mk II loudspeaker
Taste is a funny thing. Love cilantro? Millions swear it tastes like soap. Similarly, design cognoscenti will gush over a minimalist Scandinavian sofa that others dismiss as just a pricey plank with...
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Wilson Audio Specialties The WATT/Puppy Loudspeaker
Photos: Paul Miller, except where noted Since the original WATT/Puppy concept kicked off in the late 1980s, there has been a 40-year evolution leading to the latest version reviewed here. The...
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MoFi Electronics SourcePoint 888 loudspeaker
A recent high point in my career as a reviewer was writing about the MoFi Electronics SourcePoint 10 standmount loudspeaker for the February 2023 issue of Stereophile. Priced at $2999/pair, the two-way...
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Focal Diva Utopia Wireless Streaming Active Loudspeaker
What if there was a character in Stanley Kubrick's classic movie 2001: A Space Odyssey who was an audiophile? Aboard the Discovery One interplanetary space ship, what would his system look like? He'd...
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Grimm Audio LS1c active loudspeaker system
It's not unusual for audiophiles to have fond childhood recollections of the old family stereo, but Eelco Grimm's memory of his dad's audio system probably stands alone. It's not just that Piet Grimm,...
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