Bookshelves

The Lumina I, Sonus Faber's entry level bookshelf speaker. A cute and sultry mix of leather and wood adorned with a classic Sonus Faber tweeter. Pulling them out of the box, I have to say, I was surprised by how compact they were and afraid that their limited physical stature might detract from the auditory lusciousness I come to expect from the Italian Speaker manufacturer.

I shouldn't have been worried though. Even without a proper run in, they are rich and sweet - quintessentially Sonus Faber. Perhaps it's because the Lumina range is now made in Sonus Faber's Italian factory alongside their high-end big brothers that these beauties ooze class beyond their price point and size.  

At this price these are a must-listen pair of bookshelves and a favourite with a crowd after a small yet stylish speaker.

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The AE300 is a new compact stand-mount loudspeaker suitable for small to medium sized rooms. Following on from the award winning AE100, it offers a significant step up in both audio quality, materials, and cabinet finish.

The design aim is for a very full bodied and smooth character from a compact enclosure, these are sweet and unfatiguing to listen to for along periods. This makes the AE300 one of our go to recommendations for sitting in shelving in a contemporary open plan residence.

They are $1399 in Black or White finish and $1599 in real wood finish walnut

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Christmas Special until the 1st of January. Please contact us for up-to-date availability on colours. 

Monitor Audio Silver 100 7G from the brand new 7th generation of the ever popular Silver series. It's the big bookshelf speaker - bigger than a normal bookshelf speaker. The first design of this sort of speaker was slated as an experiment with no real expectations that it would succeed. On the contrary, the Silver 2s (as they were then known) were extremely poplular. People loved the extra bass and musical presence they possesed without the need for going to a full floorstanding speaker.

The 7th generation of these speakers draws on those winning design features tweaking things like the mid-bass drivers and the wave guide for a little extra clarity and precision.

The cabinets have had a refresh as well. Nothing dramatic but the wood finishes look natural and textural. We also have the full range of finishes now widely available in Australia.

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A really interesting box design with a gently curved front baffle and an unusual 360 degree bass port system. The F500 is from the Tannoy school of design with a characteristic dual concentric point source driver that combines bass and treble for better stereo imagery.

 For a Premium, gloss finish $1895

Fyne Audio homepage for the F500 loudspeakers 

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The Rega RX-ONE loudspeaker system delivers balance, detail and dynamics thanks to a unique handmade set of Rega designed drivers and crossovers.The newly developed DX-125 bass mid-range driver (using a doped paper cone) is at the heart of the RX range and combines perfectly with the Rega ZRR high frequency unit. Both mounted in a larger cabinet constructed from 18mm MDF and covered in a choice of beautiful real wood veneers, the RX-ONE will integrate perfectly into any home delivering exceptional performance within a wide range of systems. Learn More

This is Phantom II, a new breed of wireless speaker. By stretching size and performance beyond reasonable limits, Devialet engineers have brought to life the only ultra-compact home sound system capable of delivering high fidelity and physical impact, whatever volume you listen at. Insanely powerful. Defiantly small. You won’t know what hit you.

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Perfect as rear speakers for a home theatre or as clsasy yet unobtrusive speakers in a small room or a space that requires speakers to be up off the floor (away from small children and pets!)

These are everything you'd expect from Sonus Faber - rich and detailed sound with an aesthetic elegance - in a slightly different form factor.

These are available in Wood and Black. Wenge and White finishes are available for special order. 

(Sold individually)

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The bigger bookshelf design in the Sonus Faber Lumina range. Retaining the 'voice of Sonus Faber' with their Damped Apex Dome tweeter that you'll find on all of the Sonus Faber current range. The Lumina is Sonus Faber's entry level speakers that unlike previous entry level ranges from the Italian brand, they are made directly alongside their more expensive counterparts in the Italian manufacturing facility outside of Vincenza.

Because of this, the sound is rich and warm yet precise where you'd expect as well. 

Some clever design atributes, mean these Lumina speakers are perfectly designed to sit right up against walls or actually in Bookcases. Would you believe it, but most 'bookshelf' speakers are not designed to perform well placed into a bookcase. That's because their rear firing bass port will produce a soundwave reflection off a back wall or surface when placed too close to it. As a listener, you'll hear that reflection as distortion. With a front firing speaker, this eliminates this effect and beautiful music can still be heard when speakers are placed onto bookshelves.

The speakers also have a quality finish and styling. A real leather wrap and wooden finishes on the front baffle with lovely inlay details.

Superb Italian design and manufacturing in a compact package to suit the most discerning of buyers.

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Our Distributor partners M&G Hoskins were playing these speakers at the recent Melbourne Hi Fi Show and they really had an excellent reception to the most critical audience possible.

This is the speaker that when people walked into the room and they were playing alongside the massive Spendor Classic 200 that people assumed the Spendors were playing rather than this dimunitive piece of solidity. These go deep without colouration and image well outside the left and right of the boxes. Try connecting them to the excellent new Creek integratede amplifier as we were using at the Hi Fi Show or the ever popular Rega Brio R.

The latest series of the British brand Acoustic Energy introduces carbon fibre transducers. The AE500 is a two-way bookshelf speakers that, thanks to the newly developed 1" tweeter combined with a 5" mid/bass driver, offer lighter membrane construction materials. The result is greater diaphragm force and greater accuracy due to better damping compared to popular transducers.

Stereonet on Acoustic Energy AE500.

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The Spendor A1 speakers are the first speakers in the new Spendor A series. They are a bookshelf speaker that in common with other models in the range prove that you don't necessarily need a big space, or budget, to enjoy dynamic, open and exhilarating sound.

The A1 Speaker cabinets share the share the same technologies as the larger and more expensive D7 and D9 speakers. The Spendor A1 speakers are remarkably slim and compact facilitating placement into almost any domestic environment.

The A series is also incredibly flexible with regard to partnering equipment and room placement.

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This latest bookshelf sized Gold series speaker from Monitor Audio is the only one in the range (no 50 this time). It strikes me as being the perfect size and this cabinet in combination with the AMT high frequency driver means a true "point-source" presentation is possible especially if you have a good set of stands and some high quality shielded speaker cable.

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Looking like a wet dream Q Acoustic 3030 in the finish they always promised but never delivered, these are a serious bit of high energy audiophile quadruply amplified bookshelf loudspeaker. Seriously the walnut gloss finish is actually extremely elegant, and perhaps serves to allay the slightly rotund form. (also please note they are $3200 in polished walnut as against $2725 in black or white)

The form is actually dictated by physics, if you want to get the best quality sound out of the smallest box with excellent imageing and good bass, well, you end up with cabinet about this size and drive unit configuration. That is why there are so many loudspeakers that are approximately this size that are actually very good.

Acoustic Energy homepage for the AE1 loudspeakers 

"What Hi-Fi?" on AE1 loudspeakers 

""Soundstagesimplifi.com" on the AE1 loudspeakers 

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A large Bookshelf speaker that sits in the reference range of Legend Acoustics.

Dr Rod has made some significant changes to the design of the Kurres. They now feature a Berilium tweeter for even more precision and control!

They are also just that bit more efficient than the older Kurre 12s and have a more dynamic bigger feel to them because of that.

They retain all that we love about the Kurres. Neutral tonality, clarity and precision.

All of that from an Australian manufacturer and handcrafted finish in real wood timbers.

This is a speaker that sounds well and truly above its price point.

 

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We have a set of these new Legend Acoustic speakers on our shelves. Designed and manufactured in Australia by Rod Crawford, former head speaker designer for Linn Acoustics. Like all of Rod speakers, they emphasise clarity and purity of musical reproduction. There's no colouration allowed in the signal path here...in fact colouration is a bad word to say in Rod's presence.

The flat frequency response graph of these Tripos is something that other, larger speaker manufacturers can only admire.

Legend acoustics is the epitome of boutique australian loudspeaker design.

Read more about the Tripos here.

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This is one of those darling transducers that looks so good and sounds so good that it can melt the hardened heart of the most dedicated of interior designers and turn them into music loving Hi Fi freaks.

In comparison to Sonetto I, this is a bigger 2-way shelf loudspeaker system. Its high performance features a larger mid-woofer, which is capable of ensuring more wider downwards frequency response and a greater emotional impact. Besides its dimensions, Sonetto II still has the capability to disappear in the environment, with an elegant and graceful style.

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Once upon a time there was a very particular speaker designed for the BBC by a certain Mr Dudley Harwood ... this was intended to maximise the resolution of the music source in order to enable as much of the signal to be revealed as possible. These Spendors are the lineal technology descendant of those original BBC monitors and are so absolutely handsome when you take them out of their box that you want them to marry into the family. If you do take them home you will find them unfailingly polite but absolutely demanding of source and amplification.

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A stablemate of the industry for over 70 years. Few products hold this legendary status, such as the Quad Esl-57's and Linn LP12

Graham Audio are proud to present the BBC-licensed Chartwell LS3/5A.

The LS3/5A was produced by BBC Designs Department in response to detail changes in the performance of the drive units that were originally chosen for the LS3/5 as designed by BBC Research and Development. It is the most well-known of all the BBC loudspeakers, and remains the compact loudspeaker of choice for many today.

As you would expect, our version - engineered by Derek Hughes - includes authentic details such as the perforated metal tweeter grille, thick felt pads surrounding the tweeter, and Velcro rather than our usual hidden magnets to secure the grille frame. The cabinet uses 12mm panels and a fixed rear panel, according to BBC Designs Department's specification.

As the only company to have ever manufactured the LS3/5, and now also the LS3/5A, audiophiles are now in the unique position of being able to hear for themselves the differences that these changes made to the design originally intended by BBC R&D.

 

Cherry or Oak Standard RRP

Walnut and Rosewood add $249 to RRP

Ebony Add $749 to RRP

Custom Finish $POA

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A big, beefy, nostalgic kind of sound. Giving a relaxed laid back listening experience.

They are another speaker like the Klipsch Heritage and the Spendor Classics doing a Retro look speaker but these ones are very competively priced and also encapsulate the 'retro' sound as well.

On demonstration at Carlton Audio Visual now.

Their matching stands are $775 for the pair.

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