Wharfedale Emerald 93 Opinions


I own a pair of Wharfedale Emerald 93 bookshelf speakers mated with a Wharfedale sub. These are the only (entry-level?) high-end speakers I have owned so I have no idea how these compare with other speakers. Are these as good as Paradigm Reference Studio 20s? Axiom M22Tis? How much would one have to spend to get significantly better performance? Any opinions welcome.

If it matters, my other equipment consists of an NAD C370 integrated amp, Sony 222ES CD/SACD player, and a Nady 15 band/channel eq (which can potentially smooth out peaks and valleys in the frequency response if I can identify them). I listen to a wide range of music: rock, jazz, classical, early.

Tony
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A moment of history, off-topic by all but a millmeter: Wharfedale did not always make mass-market speakers, designed to push buyers' buttons in large-surface stores. Lots of 'goners learned theory from Wharfedale chief engineer G.A. Briggs' "Cabinet Handbook", published in the late '50s IIRC. Some of us even built one of Briggs' designs.

Wharfedale drivers, and indeed complete speakers, were at one point among the very best you could buy. The company was sold to the Rank organisation, and its engineers went on to form other companies later, among them Castle. The Wharfedale research legacy is very much alive today... perhaps just a bit less at the present company's premises than elsewhere.