These drive units are combined by a highly researched crossover that is near inaudible to the listener, resulting in a coherent, seamless musical output that is both thrilling and natural in its rendition of any source material. Underneath the traditional exterior, however, the Denton 85th Anniversary is bang up to date and utilises a mixture of traditional and advanced technology. The bass unit features Wharfedale’s innovative woven Kevlar cone mounted on a rigid die-cast chassis, this combination delivers a rich, detailed bass/midrange output with superb dynamic performance. High frequencies are handled by a woven textile soft-dome treble unit with high flux ferrite magnet, engineered for smooth, detailed HF extension. Seamless musical output The new Wharfedale Linton reimagines the past, rather than recreating it. It delivers so much of what was great about old-school wide-baffle loudspeakers – the ease, effortless musicality and room-filling physicality – yet consigns the age-old problems of vagueness, dynamic compression, and poor transient response to the dustbin of history. It's a special speaker in its way, but what I most like about it is that it offers all this for such an attractive price."

Unusually, they are designed specifically for use with the grilles on. Not only does doing so help to maintain that low visual profile, the grilles actually improve the sound thanks to their shape ameliorating interference from reflections from the edges of the cabinet. No reason to get excited, but that's life. In this respect, I would like to apologize in advance for the fact that I just tried to approximate the first 2 questions. I think it's worth trying, even if we can only see an adjacent tendency, if one at all. For some it will be worthless, others may be rewarded with a notion of an idea. The purpose of this test is to illustrate how much (if at all) the output changes as a speaker’s components temperature increases (i.e., voice coils, crossover components) instantaneously. Of course there is room for improvement, but if you look at the chain as an entry-level with the option to upgrade, there's actually no factual reason for criticism with the combination or the single components. In all areas that were defined by their developers for that chain, the devices play in the top range in terms of price, equipment and performance.

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n my view it is preferable to have a Pre/DAC//Streamer combo where it's easy to still use the first two technologies, if the streaming side needs a re-vamp and may be circumvented. Amplification and DAC are somehow matured tech and features are the drivers for new models, technolgy not so much. Thus, streaming platforms may still have some room for improvement in signal reception, transport and storage technology, while there is quite a good competition on the softwarew side. I've consciously kept me out of the play-fi streamer discourse with that review, let's put it this way: AS: Did you buy these speakers because you were on the hunt for new transducers, or did they cross your way by chance?

The soundstage width is impressive. At about ±70° through the upper midrange, it is wide but not so wide that it results in a diffuse soundstage (at least in my setups). In room with some basic eq on each channel (via RME ADI-2 pro). Can always use it's bass control to lift it a bit. gated comparison. Note Linton on lower stand so gating is 3.3ms vs 5ms for D2. Linton quite flat, slight rolloff, not as bad as Stereophile. D2 gentle lift and tweeter resonance, similar to Stereophile.For maximum authenticity – and pure sound – I also wheeled out our ever-lovely Icon Audio Stereo 30SE single-ended valve amplifier.

the performance benefit of a 3-way speaker and better, deeper bass with the 8in woofer with larger volume cabinet. In a way that work is still ongoing in that I’m still discovering and learning new techniques. I’m constantly looking for new ideas and reworking old ones in an effort to make better sounding speakers.

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Id also medium term be looking at nicer amplifier too with having such a nice set of speakers. The marantz does have enough power for them and they do play nice with lower level gear. I need some new tubes so I’ve put my old Sony in while I wait for them to arrive from Britain and it’s sounding really surprisingly good. It’s hard to place it relative to the marantz because of its age, and it has a lot more power, but it’d be in and around its level. Equally, having used it with a better amp I know that there is more that the Lintons have to offer that is currently being left on the table. Being that there is no downside to owning a pair of Wharfedale Lintons, we're getting straight to the point – these speakers are a must have." This summer I could no longer resist the impression that the return of vinyl as a signal source - be it as a recollection of childhood & youth memories or be it as an exciting new sensory experience - has started to claim its place in the computer-audiophile ecosystem. Not quite central, more in a sense of a lightweight counterbalance that allows us somehow to better adjust our digital pleasures.

My Marantz PM KI Pearl Lite has plenty of control over the speakers, warm midrange and refined treble; I’m happy wiht the combo. Rounding things off comes the tweeter which is – natch! – not a metal dome. It is a standard I in (25mm) textile dome that covers high frequencies smoothly – without sharpness or ringiness. SOUND QUALITY AS: I absolutely love the plentitude of functionality of the 6000A for an integrated, but wouldn't it be more up to date to give the unit the network capabilities (and an USB input) we have seen in other (AIO) amplifiers this year? In mono-listening, the difference in sound was noticeable. The Linton had a slight edge to me due to its warmer sound. Spinning 45rpm remastered vinyl and an old, old song (1969), Lodi, from Creedence Clear

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As Pre and Integrated, the device convinces with its versatility of 5 input options: line (3x), Bluetooth (aptX), coax (2x), Toslink (2x) and Moving Magnet Phono in. I perceived the sound signature of the PRE, when using the PS Audio Stellar S300 and compared to the NAD preamplifier, to be unobtrusive, neutral with less warmth, although these differences are rather marginal in my opinion. Emotional winners of the heart are the respective vinyl variants. However, Young Marble Giants’ stream had and easy match with the wrangled record version, even I bought that closer to the millennium as a replacement, if I remember correctly. This song is new wave minimalism at its best, possibly genre-defining and its special acoustic aura delivered by the timid instrumentation with drum machine, voice, guitar, bass and keyboard, never stayed hidden by the Lintons. This song, “Credit in the straight world” found was also adapted into Nirvana’s and Holes’s songbook.