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https://www.stereophile.com/content/svs-ultra-evolution-pinnacle-loudspeaker

Before I even listened to the SVS Ultra Evolution Pinnacles loudspeakers, it was clear that they offer a lot of high-quality hardware for the money. I asked company CEO Yacoubian how they could bring this design to market at the stated price. “Our mission has always been to surprise and delight people with the level of performance they get for what they pay,” he answered. “That’s a core value of SVS. We are a very lean machine. We don’t have the margins of some other speaker companies. Our dealers have lean margins as well.”

With fine execution of a complex design, high-quality components, and spectacular musical performance, the Ultra Evolution Pinnacle SVS has raised the bar on what’s possible at and near its price. For anyone aiming to assemble a first high-end music system with limited funds and a sufficiently large room, the Pinnacles are a game changer. The quality-to-cost ratio may be unprecedented. They are a true hi-fi bargain.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/dynaudio-contour-30i-loudspeaker

The Contours sounded impeccably well-designed, built to exacting standards. You can hear this in a few ways: its symmetrical, single-voice cohesion; its colorful transparency; its authentic-seeming tonality; its dynamic ambience; its orderly and clean disposition. It was, in many ways, reminiscent of my time in Denmark.

After that first five-second high had leveled off into a sustained phase of euphoric well-being, I thought, This is why better sound is worth it. Because it proved again that the farther we can hear into the performance, the more it has the power to touch us. That’s the fundamental premise on which our hobby is built. It would also seem to have been the fundamental premise on which the 30i was built.

https://www.soundstagehifi.com/index.php/equipment-reviews/1913-monitor-audio-gold-300-6g-loudspeaker

The Monitor Audio Gold 300 6G is a most capable, highly refined loudspeaker. It is neutral and transparent, revealing the subtlest recorded detail (and any upstream change to equipment and interconnects). It is fast and dynamic, and it is honest, adding neither warmth nor color to recordings. Given its neutrality and transparency, the Gold 300 6G would be a good match to a ruler-flat front end. I’d be reluctant to pair it with brighter components, though. All told, the Monitor Audio Gold 300 6G is a high-performance loudspeaker that lives up to its gold-standard pedigree.

https://www.hifinews.com/content/bw-702-s3-signature

Switch to ‘The Smoke’, however, and the performance was more about unpicking the track’s many layers. There was a great sense of resolution noticeable in small details, such as Yorke’s voice reverberating into space and in the intricacies of the bass playing that carries this song.

Gritty guitars? On ‘Thin Thing’ these were enjoyably crunchy – perhaps a strange adjective but one that fits perfectly with Greenwood’s particular mix of distortion pedals. The speakers impressed here with their drive and power, but their strongest moments were with the more dreamlike tracks on this album where they showed off an ability to envelop, seeming to discover new details even in familiar songs.

https://www.hifinews.com/content/burmester-b38

Listening to the B38, I was reminded of that famous commercial from Heineken about refreshing the parts that other beers cannot reach. The impact of this speaker’s 32cm woofer – unusually large for even a floorstander at this price – is immediately noticeable, delivering a bass performance with real extension, plus grip and control. Coupled to succinct, clean highs from the AMT tweeter, the resulting sound has plenty of dynamism, and the voicing shows no desire to add extra warmth to what’s already on the track. There’s energy and liveliness; a direct feel to the sound that’s simpatico with the loudspeaker’s physical style.

It’s a performance that worked wonders with Daft Punk’s ‘Da Funk’ [Homework; Parlophone CDV 2821], which begins with a deep, propulsive electronic bassline and rat-a-tat percussion underpinned by a thudding kick drum. Each element landed with rapid attack and decay, the space between beats making it easy to latch on to its nightclub groove. Furthermore, even at a listening level that could be described as anti-social, the B38 didn’t lose its clean, composed nature.