(December 2023/January 2024, Read Full Review) Reviewer Dennis Young was enamored with the speakers’ ability to recreate a spacious soundstage and put up a convincing stereo image while delivering near full-range sound regardless of volume. At over $2,000 a pair, it’s not cheap but it does live up to the brand’s stellar reputation, mating a unique 1.1-inch fabric-dome tweeter with a 6-inch midrange driver and two 7-inch woofers in a sturdy if not pedestrian looking cabinet. The Emit 50 three-way floorstander is one of the brand’s more affordable models. (October/November 2021, Read Full Review)ĭynaudio Emit 50 Loudspeaker: $2,249/pairĭynaudio is not exactly a household name here in the U.S., but the Danish company has been making speakers for almost 50 years while establishing a reputation among audiophiles for delivering high quality sound. Somewhere Henry Kloss, the speaker’s original designer, is smiling. Veteran audio reviewer Tom Norton was impressed by the “huge sonic bubble” the Fives conveyed and noted how the speakers excelled with female vocals. Otherwise, it has a 10-inch pulp-paper woofer and the same rear-panel Low/Mid/Hi switch found on its predecessor. The speaker remains true to the original’s three-way acoustic-suspension design but uses a modern 1-inch aluminum-dome tweeter and a single 4-inch pulp-paper midrange driver instead of the two side-by-side 5-inch drivers in the original. KLH, one of the classic speaker brands that gave rise to mass-market hi-fi in the 1960s, is back with a re-imagined version of the iconic Model Five. Whether you’re looking for a set of floorstanding speakers for music or want to build a surround-sound system around them, the Canton Chrono 70 is a speaker that, as reviewer Michael Trei put it, punches way above its weight class. The speaker is a rear-ported two-and-a-half-way design that mates an aluminum-manganese tweeter with two 6-inch aluminum woofers in a stately 37-inch-tall cabinet offered in black or white. Among the first wave of products to arrive on these shores is the impressive looking - and sounding - Chrono 70 floorstander, one of the few speakers made in Europe, not China. The 50-year-old German brand Canton recently made its way back to the States after a decade-long hiatus. Click here for tips on what makes a speaker sound good.Ĭanton Chrono 70 Loudspeaker: $1,995/pair
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