$1,500 · Wharfedale Evo 4.4 Floor Standing Speaker Pair (White Oak) As New

18 months old, in as new condition - as reviewed by whathifi https://www.whathifi.com/reviews/wharfedale-evo-44 I just have the upgrade bug - I replaced these with B&W 702 S3’s. As you can see, the Evo 4.4’s look stunning, and sound fantastic for $3,000 speakers. I have been driving them with a Naim Uniti Atom - well cared for in a non-smoking home. I have boxes and packaging, but i do not want to ship these - local sale only - pickup in Oak Bay Victoria BC. ——————————— Some Text from WhatHiFi ——————- The 55 x 80 mm AMT hands over to another unusual drive unit, a dome midrange, at a relatively high 4.7kHz. Few speakers use a dome midrange because of the cost and difficulty of development, but the one used in the 4.4 has a 50mm soft dome coated with a damping compound to control resonances. There’s also a specially shaped chamber behind the dome that scatters and absorbs the diaphragm’s rearward sound, so reducing distortion and improving detail. This dome midrange unit has a wide frequency response ranging from 800Hz to 5kHz. This response along with the powerful motor system helps it integrate with the AMT tweeter as well as the twin woven Kevlar bass drivers that sit below it on the front panel. The crossover point between the midrange and bass drivers is 1.2 kHz. If you’re thinking that any speaker that stands 106cm tall and has twin 15cm bass drivers should deliver plenty in the way of bass, you’d be right. The output of those two bass drivers is helped by a downward-facing port arrangement where the low frequency sound fires out through a gap between the base of the speaker cabinet and the floor plinth. This is a technique that Wharfedale has refined in recent years and is claimed to better match the acoustic output of the port to the room. The Evo 4.4’s build quality is good for the price. We like the way the elegantly curved cabinet is put together. It’s strategically braced and damped to provide a solid, low resonance platform for the drive units to work from. There are three finish options – black, white and walnut. The standard of fit and finish on our review samples is good.