WHARFEDALE Diamond 9.5

PW02.07.2008

Floorstanding loudspeakers

The Wharfedale Diamond 9.5s belong to a serious product category. Entry-level speakers do form our opinions on hifi for many years to come. Very often they set a kind of sonic benchmark: we do not like to depart from the sonic flavour we took as a reference when we were young. 

Funkce a forma

80%
Ergonomie
23%
Zvuk
55%
Zpracování

The Diamond 9.5s are 3-way speakers. Alike Bowers & Wilkins speakers they use Kevlar cones in bass and midrange drivers (16.5cm), the actually quite good tweeter is of a 1" soft dome design. Towards the back rounded enslosures are rigid and well damped. Gold-plated binding posts are mounted onto a die-cast metal plate. A reflex ports fire to the rear of the speakers. In this price range there was no room for natural veneers so the anclosures are covered in vinyl foil.

Nízké frekvence

Váha
56
Výbušnost
38
Artikulace
39

The lows of the Wharfedales are quite impressive, with bottom end extension to 32Hz in my room. The sound is dense and weighty which does good to movie soundtracks. At some moments the bass of the Diamond 9.5s was almost monumental.

Čistota rozlišení

Detail
59
Vzduch
35
Transparentnost
35

I found these speakers to be very sensitive to source components (amplifiers) as well as to cables. It makes no sense to list what were my preferences - neither was better than another, just different.

Tonální věrnost

Témbr
20
Dynamika
40
Časování
30

Prostorovost

Trojrozměrnost
62
Šířka scény
70
Hloubka scény
70

Tonal colours are not entirely in line with what can be heard from high end speakers but the Wharfedales are not high end speakers, right? One can buy 10-20 pairs of the Diamond 9.5 at the budget that allows the upgrade to better sound. Still, I would like to hear more detailed and natural sound from the Warfedales. If you listen to rock then the 9.5s may be for you.

Cena v době recenze:15 500,- Kč

Doporučení prodejci

RP Audio , Ostrava, +420 596 110 872

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  • Sources:  Denon DCD 700AE, ŃAD CD 542, Marantz CD7300
  • Amplifiers: Denon PMA 700AE, NAD C352, Marantz PM 8200
  • Interconnects and speaker cables: X-Symphony  Pure Silver Fantasy, Oehlbach NF-214, Monitor NF 41, Gronenberg Quattro Reference, Hi-Diamond Petit Black, DHLabs Silversonic Air Matrix
  • Power conditioning: Supra distributor

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