Jade 5 review from What Hi-Fi
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GQ magazine: Wharfedale Diamond 10.2
From their website: For most other manufacturers, loudspeaker design is full of compromise. More often than not, it’s a case of taking whichever drive units are available from the various manufacturers, designing a cabinet which someone else builds and designing a crossover which compensates for the differences between drivers and between driver and cabinet. Even large, well-known manufacturers that claim to have revolutionary designs are often just assembling parts built by someone else.
Design and manufacturing excellence
Wharfedale today is part of the International Audio group – one of the largest manufacturers of audio products in the world – and certainly the most vertically integrated. The flow through our 1.5 million square foot factory from raw material to finished product is well choreographed with quality control check-points at every stage throughout the process.
Our UK based design team have complete freedom to specify materials, processes, shapes and performance parameters of every component part – often working with our experienced production teams to develop new, more efficient processes. One such area in which Wharfedale have developed considerable experitse is in the field of cabinet construction. Whilst high-end loudspeakers have for several years used curved and oblique cabinet constructions to help damp standing waves and reduce cabinet resonance, these had been the exclusive preserve of the high-end models.
