A field guide to the very top end of hi-fi, where the cabinets weigh more than your car, the cones are cut from diamonds, and the price tags would buy you a small Greek island. Strap in.
It is shear madness that lives at the very top end of the hi-fi world. It is a place where price tags wear extra zeros like jewellery, and where engineers will talk about diamond tweeters, zirconium baskets and aramid honeycomb spacers with the same straight face most of us reserve for tax returns. It is, frankly, magnificent. It is also, equally frankly, completely barking.
For most of us in the underground, our relationship with sound systems…
