Arial Acoustics 20T Loudspeaker

Is the Arial Acoustics 20T Loudspeaker ($32,000.00 USD/pair) an ideal Stereophile reviewer's speaker? It is priced equally to the Focal Scala Utopia V2 Loudspeaker ($32,000.00 USD/pair), and offers similar specification to the K6 Loudspeaker by ProAc.

In a sense, it is a strange question. When one sets out to write reviews, one likely sets out to write reviews in the style of Stereophile Magazine. As a young boy, one might collect them, just as others might acquire Penthouse.

Living in the Ellington, we are a musical family. We may live in an Ella suite, but we prefer our music Basie.

We looked at the Master & Dynamic MH 30 Headphones, "The Mobile Thinking Cap", and found the screw-joints between the ear cup and the headband attractive. In the same way, we find the feet of the 20T ugly, but reminiscent of binding posts.

The Arial 20 V2's Tweeter, we found vaginal, with white on the inside. We were interested in the black model, finding it object-worthy, but the rosewood, shown here, we found the Reviewer's choice.




There is something attractive about a ribbon tweeter.


JP 2015/01/22
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