
Why I Love... Passive Speakers
There’s an element of art in the design of passive speakers that’s somehow diluted, lost even, once you put the crossover upstream of multiple power amplifiers...
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There’s an element of art in the design of passive speakers that’s somehow diluted, lost even, once you put the crossover upstream of multiple power amplifiers...

Fretless bass: the instrument that dare not speak its name. It had its 15 minutes of fame in the '80s, when almost every bass player who'd caught a glorious moment of Jaco Pastorius in Weather Report or in Joni Mitchell's band had a go at fretless...

With their precision engineering and distinctive white waveguides, the One series put Amphion on the studio map. And now they’ve got even better.

We visited AIR Lyndhurst Studios to put the newly revamped M2 monitor through its paces.

Designed specifically for immersive formats, the BP3600 is a novel alternative to more familiar Ambisonic microphones.

Designed with immersive audio in mind, the Symphony Studio is also a top‑class all‑round audio interface.

In updating their classic M Series, Dynaudio Acoustics show that passive doesn’t need to mean low‑tech.

Whether you’re mixing or mastering in stereo, surround or immersive formats, this powerful virtual monitor controller could soon become indispensable.

IK’s newest iLoud speakers pack serious monitoring into an ultra‑portable format.

These compact speakers punch well above their weight — and you can build them yourself!

Based on cutting‑edge psychoacoustic research, Virtuoso v2 aims to deliver for headphone users the most convincing emulation of ‘speakers in a room’ to date.

Room‑correction pioneers Trinnov were already a step ahead of the competition. Now they’ve taken things further.

Designed for outside broadcast trucks, Geithain’s compact monitors could easily find a home in music recording contexts where space is at a premium.

It might be marketed as a gaming headset, but Audeze’s Maxwell has serious studio potential, especially for Atmos.

This combination of software and multi‑channel plug‑in overcomes some frustrating hurdles for those working in Atmos.


Kali Audio’s latest three‑way speakers look unassuming, but represent a big step up in performance.

Telegrapher may be a young company, but their flagship three‑way monitors are up there with the very best.

With its clever Phonitor Matrix, this high‑end headphone amp aims to deliver a more speaker‑like listening experience.

As somebody who finds the commercial side of the music business interesting with a slowly growing collection of almost finished music that someday it would be fun to set free, there was no question that I wanted to read this book...