Critical review of Wharfedale 12.2:
"We hear sharpness in an important area: the voice area. This causes restlessness. Even on very clean amplifiers, well above the class of this Wharfedale. The competition is killing in this field. And that makes it so that a product just has to be right. And although the speaker looks neat, it does not play at the level of the competition. This Diamond is too bright."
The competition in this field is cut-throat. And that means that a product just has to be right. And this diamond does not...
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I would make the same criticism of my Wharfedale 9.0s, with back-to-back listening to TV sources, compared to my KEF LSXs. Any passive speakers the same size as KEF LSX, at same (or lower!) price that match them in the voice area?