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Aimed at customers seeking to “elevate their at-home audio experience”, the eight-strong Q Series aims to bring KEF’s latest raft of innovations to a wider audience. The KEF Q3 Meta are the step-up st

Acoustic Energy? That’s a name we haven’t featured for a good while. It’s not that the company hasn’t been making capable products over the past few years, but rather that they seem to do it more quie

Before Spotify took over, the stereo speaker market was awash with great-value passive designs to complement your amplifier, turntable and CD player. That field has shrunk, but the quality is arguably

Focal’s Theva No.1 steps into a highly competitive arena. This part of the market has long been dominated by the likes of the Bowers & Wilkins 600 range, but recent months have seen something of a shi

Improving on exellence is never easy, which is probably why this ‘threequel’ has been a long time coming, Ruark no doubt finding it tricky to better its winning combination of petite size, musical sou

As you move up out of the crowded budget-speaker arena into mid-priced standmounter territory – that is, from around the £500 mark upwards – the air becomes somewhat clearer and the landscape less den