

Simply put, this is solid engineering practice.

“This is not a throwback to days of old, far from it,” designer Peter Comeau says. The new Wharfedale Linton Classic achieves exactly that as a massive, wide baffle standmount speaker, it’s very much in the mold of big 1970s designs, and completely out of style when contrasted to today’s small footprint ‘tower’ floorstanders.

Of course, this was only true up to a point, and now we’re rethinking previous assumptions as well. Most audiophiles thirty years ago believed that everything old was garbage and that all we needed to shape our brave new future was modern technology and fresh thoughts.
