- Increase in cabinet volume and reduced large -scale resonance
- New MT High Frequency Unit and Extended Bass and Midrangee Drivers
- From £ 549 (about $ 730 / AU $ 1,125)
Wharfedale has enough to upgrade its best -selling EVO speaker range, and the new fifth generation EV5 speakers come with a visual refresh and very important audio upgrade.
There are five models in the range: two standmount speakers (EVO 5.1 and 5.2), two Fluorustanders (EVO 5.3 and 5.4) and a Home Cinema Center Speaker (EVO 5.C). They are grand looking things and come in new color options, but whatever has happened really matters here.
Wharfedale Evos already moved from head to head with speakers, spending a lot of money, and these fifth-jewelery versions promise to make even better sound.
Wharfedale Evo 5 Speaker: Major features and pricing
The first upgrade is for air motion transformer (AMT), which uses Wharfedale instead of Dome Twitter: it is a pleated diaphragm that pushes four times more air than comparable traditional tweeters, providing low deformation and rapid momentary reactions. Wharfedale says it also produces a broad frequency range and excellent horizontal spread.
The EVO5 version is before – 35×70 mm compared to 30×60 mm in EVO 4 – and provides better efficiency and spread. The new silentview is behind it, which should reduce the sound wave reflections inside the speaker.
There is more from where the silentview came: Resoframe and Resoseal, also new, are new acoustic dumping frames and dumping rings for EVO 5 and aims to help drive units a smooth response.
The mid-range driver is re-designed for the fifth generation, with the above resoframe and silentway. And the bass driver uses the advanced low-verse motor system seen in the first flagship alisian model. It surrounds a lower-lose rubber for a lower midst and tight bass, combined with a woven kernel cone of 130 mm or 150 mm at the base of the speaker model.
The crossover is also re -designed, and a re -designed circuit board has benefits that provide a short path length between components and drive units. In three-way models, it is divided into separate PCBs for middle/triple and for bass to reduce electromagnetic intervention.
The bass reflex design comes from Wharfedel’s greater premium aura and a slot instead of a more traditional front or rear-firing port based on the speaker. Where Evo 4 entered two directions, Evo 5 vents in three, which Wharfedale says that the airflow distribution adapts to deep, vocal and well integrated bass. The design also makes speakers “less excitement” about placements as compared to traditionally ported designs.
The cabinets are larger than their EVO4 counterparts and are made from a sandwich of different density forests to reduce panel resonance to reduce panel resonance and reduce the leakage of unwanted sound energy. And there is a hybrid metal/wood plinth for stiffness and isolation on the bottom.
Walnut wood choice is crossed by EVO4, but Black and White is now super-samuth high-quality mats and is a new matte option called Lunar Gray.
EVO 5 speakers will be available from June 2025. Prices are:
- EVO 5.1: £ 549 per pair
- EVO 5.2: £ 749 per pair
- EVO 5.3: £ 1099 per pair
- EVO 5.4: £ 1399 per pair
- EVO 5.C: £ 549
