Wharfedale's stunning Super Linton speakers could take pride of place in the hi-fi room of my dreams

Hi-fi lovers, assemble! Wharfedale’s astir celebrated loudspeaker pair, nan Linton (but spot besides nan Denton 85 we saw astatine nan 2024 Bristol Hi-Fi Show, to people Wharfedale's 85th twelvemonth successful nan business), has conscionable been elevated to ‘Super’ status. Linton Super, you say? Yes, featuring upgrades to nan thrust units, crossover and furniture – but maintaining nan glorious woody furniture and nan offset positioning of nan tweeter.

Quick history lesson: nan original Linton was 1 of nan UK's heavy-hitters betwixt 1965 and nan precocious 1970s (when I was born. And I retrieve these speakers nan first clip around). Wharfedale brought nan Linton backmost successful 2019 arsenic portion of its Heritage line, lovingly re-engineered. Cut to 5 years later and Wharfedale’s engineers – buoyed up by their occurrence and led by Director of Acoustic Design, Peter Comeau – decided nan creation could beryllium pushed moreover further.

Wharfedale tells maine that nan squad "revisited each element" successful nan speaker, "from nan furniture to nan thrust units to nan crossover". The result? A Super Linton. It's each inch portion of Wharfedale's Heritage Series, but now re-worked for nan modern age.

Wharfedale Super Linton: nan cardinal upgrades

While its footprint is nan aforesaid arsenic that of nan regular Linton, nan Super Linton’s furniture is 4cm taller – and much soul measurement is almost ever a bully point successful speakers (if you tin fresh them into your home, that is – and I'd induce these stereo speakers into my mini location happily).

The building now features dual layers of fiberboard, coupled by latex-based damping glue. The 200mm woven Kevlar bass driver's cone is nan same, but that other measurement intends a much powerful centrifugal strategy could beryllium added, pinch accrued magnet strength. The treble unit? It's besides new, though it inherits overmuch of its creation from nan 1 utilized successful nan overmuch bigger (and overmuch much expensive) Dovedale, pinch a 25mm dome formed from a good cloth weave.

Combining nan output of this three-way speaker's units is an all-new crossover network, now divided onto 2 abstracted circuit boards. The speaker grille is besides an improved design, incorporating soul shaping. They surely sound for illustration contenders for our best stereo speakers roundup.

The caller Super Linton is disposable from mid-November successful your prime of walnut, mahogany and achromatic oak wood veneers, priced $2,499 / £1,999 / AU$5,199 including nan matching stands. It'd beryllium $2,299 / £1,849 / AU$4,599 without nan stands but really, why would you?

Bit rich | for nan humor but want them? The 2019-edition Linton remains successful nan line-up astatine £1,249 per brace (so astir $1,799) pinch nan stands aliases £1,099 without them. You cognize you request them for those agelong listening sessions of an evening…

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