Howdy-fi fanatics, assemble! Wharfedale’s hottest loudspeaker pair, the Linton (but witness also the Denton 85 we noticed on the 2024 Bristol Howdy-Fi Demonstrate, to ticket Wharfedale’s Eighty fifth year within the industry), has excellent been elevated to ‘Nice’ space. Linton Nice, you speak? Yes, featuring upgrades to the ability units, crossover and cupboard – but striking forward the fabulous wood cupboard and the offset positioning of the tweeter.
Rapidly history lesson: the fresh Linton change into regarded as one of the UK’s heavy-hitters between 1965 and the slack 1970s (after I change into born. And I endure in thoughts these audio system the first time around). Wharfedale introduced the Linton lend a hand in 2019 as fragment of its Heritage line, lovingly re-engineered. Decrease to 5 years later and Wharfedale’s engineers – buoyed up by their success and led by Director of Acoustic Create, Peter Comeau – decided the form will doubtless be pushed even additional.
Wharfedale tells me that the team “revisited every thing” within the speaker, “from the cupboard to the ability units to the crossover”. The final consequence? A Nice Linton. Or no longer it’s every stride fragment of Wharfedale’s Heritage Series, but now re-worked for the stylish age.
Wharfedale Nice Linton: basically the significant upgrades
While its footprint is linked to that of the favored Linton, the Nice Linton’s cupboard is 4cm taller – and more interior volume is nearly constantly an very most attention-grabbing thing in audio system (when you happen to can match them into your rental, that is – and I could perchance well invite these stereo audio system into my small home happily).
The advance now capabilities twin layers of fiberboard, coupled by latex-based totally damping glue. The 200mm woven Kevlar bass driver’s cone is similar, but that additional volume manner a more highly effective motor device will doubtless be added, with elevated magnet energy. The treble unit? Or no longer it’s miles also unusual, though it inherits powerful of its form from the one broken-down within the powerful bigger (and much more costly) Dovedale, with a 25mm dome formed from a pleasant cloth weave.
Combining the output of this three-methodology speaker’s units is an all-unusual crossover network, now split onto two separate circuit boards. The speaker grille can even be an improved form, incorporating interior shaping. They indubitably sound fancy contenders for our most attention-grabbing stereo audio system roundup.
The unusual Nice Linton is readily accessible from mid-November in your replacement of walnut, mahogany or dark oak wood veneers, priced at $2,499 / £1,999 / AU$5,199 collectively with the matching stands. They’re $2,299 / £1,849 / AU$4,599 without the stands but indubitably, why would you?
Bit rich for the blood but want the next-most attention-grabbing thing? The 2019-edition Linton remains within the lineup at £1,249 per pair (so around $1,800 or AU$2,450) with the stands or £1,099 without them. You know that you just have to well like them for those long listening classes of an evening…
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