- Wharfedale has a new pair of speakers, The Aston
- Combine a new audio hardware with a retro appearance and a satin finish
- It is a limited career of 500 units, starting at £ 1,699 per pair
The Wharfedale audio hardware specialist has presented The Aston, a new speaker model with a retro appearance and limited execution of 500 units.
The Aston is the latest incorporation into the Wharfedale heritage range, which consists of “recreations of famous models of its past, completely redesigned using contemporary techniques and materials.”
That means that Wharfedale is, like a Disney executive, to go through his extensive back catalog and give what a new life opportunity can with the latest advanced technologies.
But while the recent Wharfedale Heritage launches have tended to renew past models with newer hardware, Aston is a new address completely, although it shares a name with a speaker design mounted on the wall of the 70s, and It goes to a retro finish with a vintage -style rack and real wooden veneers instead of a more modern look.
By mediating 340 x 200 x 255 mm per unit, Aston has approximately the dimensions of a pair of shelving speakers, but it can be combined with Wharfedale speaker means a more assertive position in its living room. You can also opt for walnut, mahogany or black oak veneers, which are polished by hand and lacquered “up to a satin finish.”
Aston is a “classic two -way speakers”, which means that each speaker unit contains a simple woofer and tweeter mat 55HZ-20KHZ Frequency Answer to capture the ups and downs of movies and music equally.
In a press release, Comeau says that “by taking advantage of the latest developments in the design of the cabinet, the driver and the crossover of the models of key heritage series, then adapting them and improving to adapt to a bidirectional speaker with a compact cabinet of Size specifically, I have created, I have created a “signature” speaker that fully meets the report that I put for my first commercial design does all those decades: a compact speaker with a broadband width sound.
“When you hear the Aston, I hope you ask yourself how we achieve such a large -scale sound of the speakers of such tiny size: natural, couple, detailed and attractive throughout the full frequency spectrum. The answer is simple: acoustic engineering of the highest order. “
‘Seriously impressive’
It is a more basic configuration than some three -way heritage models that throw an average range controller, but it is still obtaining some premium pieces, including the ceramic magnet motor system, the 25 mm fabric dome and the rear camera shock absorbed in the high of Wharfedale. -End Dovedale Model (sold for £ 5,000 per tair).
The Aston has been in development for several years, with an initial prototype shown in the high -end audio exhibition in Munich in 2022.
The company is publishing a seriously capable audio hardware these days, with Techradar TV hardware writer, James Davidson, calling the recent Wharfedale Super Denton “amazing […] Determined but seriously impressive. “
You can pick up the Aston for £ 1,699 (about $ 2,120 / au $ 3,380) without speakers, or £ 1,999 with supports included, once at the end of February it arrives. The stand is technically available separately for £ 500, but we recommend that they discard as part of the general package.
That is more expensive than most of the models that you will find in our best stereo speakers guide, but for the style, power and satisfaction of having limited editing hardware, it is much more reasonable than it could have guessed, especially of A brand with such inheritance.
