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” The Certaldo is a slimline two-and-a-half-way design, with a 25mm silk dome tweeter accompanying a single 130mm composite fibreglass cone midrange and two of the same working as woofers. The internal wiring is all from van den Hul, while the silver-and-gold-over-copper terminals are Rosso Fiorentino’s own. Certaldo is the top end of the company’s third-in-line Prestige Series; more domestically-friendly, less demanding, and less expensive than the brand’s Flagship or Reference lines, but more uncompromising in design and execution than the Rosso Fiorentino Classic Series. Certaldo stands about a metre high on its plinth, which allows for the down-firing port (it is also rear-vented). This all makes for a loudspeaker that returns a claimed sensitivity of 87dB, and a nominal impedance of eight ohms with a five ohm minimum impedance. In other words, possibly very slightly below average sensitivity, but nothing too difficult for any decent amplifier to drive.”

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“The Dynaudio Focus 200 XD self-powered digital loudspeaker system is an amazingly versatile, relatively lightweight, surprisingly powerful (300Wpc) high-resolution system that can deliver wired and wireless music reproduction that’s fully digital-all-the-way-to-the-drivers. Its versatility includes treble, bass, and sensitivity controls for fine-tuning the sound to suit different environments.

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“So rock music, which never comes close to the dynamic range of this well-recorded percussion piece, would never threaten the Model One’s composure. I’m stressing the Model One’s freewheeling visceral capabilities because I have so rarely encountered speakers of the Model One’s size and price ($16,000; £9,990 per pair) that can deliver this kind of power and glory.”