It’s that point of 12 months once more – the What Hello-Fi? Awards have been dished in and out the speaker bundle class, we’ve a mixture of returning favourites and new gems bringing the most effective house cinema has to supply.
Now we have a brand new entry on the high and backside ends of the value spectrum, whereas the three winners within the center worth brackets are packages that impressed us beforehand and are but to be topped.
Wharfedale dominates as soon as once more, regardless of profitable one fewer award than final 12 months. The corporate’s brand-new DX-3 speaker bundle is available in because the ‘finest below £500’, changing its personal DX-2 which took house gold within the earlier 5 years.
The Diamond 12.1 and Diamond 12.3 house cinema packages get the awards for the following worth brackets, as soon as once more. The Diamond 12.1 bundle totally impressed us for a 3rd 12 months straight within the ‘£500-1000’ area, a lot in order that below ‘cons’ in our assessment we wrote a brief, candy “nothing”. The larger, bolder 12.3 set wins its second award in a row, proving it’s a stellar house cinema bundle within the subsequent worth bracket..
The super-stylish (and now fittingly named) Dali Oberon 5 speaker bundle wins for the fifth 12 months straight within the ‘£1500-2000’ vary. It’s pleasantly full and heat sounding and has an ideal dynamic vary – ideally suited elements for an entertaining bundle. For sure, it will take a critical challenger to knock it from its perch.
On the highest worth bracket, Bowers & Wilkins has stepped in to take the crown this 12 months, with the mixed Bowers & Wilkins 606 & 607 S3 speaker bundle coming high of our record.
This set was a particular customized bundle we put collectively ourselves, comprising the five-star 606 S3 audio system as our entrance left and proper left channels and the smaller, five-star 607 S3 as our encompass audio system, together with the corporate’s HTM6 S3 centre channel and ASW610 subwoofer. Bowers & Wilkins doesn’t promote these audio system as a bundle at current, so that you’ll want to purchase every part individually to get your fingers on this set-up. And we promise you will not be upset if you happen to do.
5 winners then, however just one will take house the celebrated Product of the 12 months award within the speaker bundle class. Watch this house on Wednesday fifteenth November, because the POY awards for every product class will likely be introduced on that night (GMT) in the course of the official What Hello-Fi? Awards ceremony.
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