Forty five years ago Matthew Polk, George Klopfer and Sandy Gross founded Polk Audio in a Victorian house, just outside of Baltimore, U.S.A. Since then Polk Audio has grown quite large and is considered amongst the successful loudspeaker manufacturers from North America. Now they have a large product portfolio including marine and automotive applications. Budget home … [Read more...] about Polk Audio Fusion T Tower Speaker package (5.1 set)
Cabasse Java Loudspeaker Review
Founded some 65 years ago by Georges Cabasse, Cabasse is one amongst the Big Three Loudspeakers manufacturers from France, the other two being Triangle and Focal. Their initial clients included movie theaters, and they also manufactured professional active speakers up until the '80's. In the '90's they developed coaxial drive units based on their "Spatially Coherent System" … [Read more...] about Cabasse Java Loudspeaker Review
KEF Reference 1 Speaker Review
Kent Engineering & Foundry was a metal working company on the banks of the Medway River, near Maidstone in Kent, U.K. This unlikely locale was chosen by Raymond Cooke, an ex- BBC Electrical Engineer in 1961 to establish KEF in a Nissen Hut. The first speaker produced by Cooke was the three-way" K1" which featured drive units with foil-stiffened, vacuum-formed … [Read more...] about KEF Reference 1 Speaker Review
Triangle Antal EZ Loudspeaker Review
It was noteworthy that my two top picks for Loudspeakers in the recently concluded What Hi-fi show in Bangalore were both from France. They were high end models from Focal and Triangle. Triangle happens to be amongst the top three Loudspeaker manufacturers in France, the other two being Focal and Cabasse. They marketed their first model some 35 years ago and are amongst the … [Read more...] about Triangle Antal EZ Loudspeaker Review
What H-Fi Banglore 2015 Show Report
The What Hifi? Sound & Vision show was recently conducted, August 28th - 30th, 2015 at the Ritz Carlton in Bangalore. There were 3 floors of displays, the 6th floor having the bulk of the demonstration rooms. Nexus Audio Video and Absolute Sound collaborated featuring a simple system with an apple laptop source into belcanto electronics feeding a pair of tiny PMC … [Read more...] about What H-Fi Banglore 2015 Show Report