Welcome to the revolution: the Larsen 4.2 Most speakers today are wooden boxes with one or more drivers mounted on the front firing straight ahead. They can sound wonderful or not and there’s a plethora of speakers to choose from. From small plasticky desktop speakers to giant monoliths; from active studio monitors to passive […]
The Russell K Red 100 (£1950) were released back in 2014. Remember those simple happy days? We’ve all aged more than a little since then. I’ve been drawn to the Red 100 since they came out basically. First, I love how they look. Albeit not the weird red and grey version, but the one now […]
No speaker is perfect, but I’ll tell you what I love about a speaker that can go up against the wall: placement versatility. We don’t all have the option of placing our speakers one or two meters into the room. Often the optimal placement for a speaker is suboptimal for how the rest of our […]
Under review today are the Lyd 8, a pair of active studio monitors from Dynaudio. There is nothing velvety about these. The Dynaudio Lyd 8s are active speakers, and active speakers are on the rise. No wonder, because they sound good and they are Marie Kondo’s best friend: like integrated amplifiers they ditch the separates […]