Another excellent review. thanks, for including the amplifiers that you have assessed, and how they are able convey signal to the speakers. Your pace, at which you explain your thoughts, is perfect, and is what keeps me watching!

Fantastic review, thank you! I always learn at least one or two things every time I watch, and that's a pleasure.

Thanks Tarun for another great review. And what a beautiful pair of speakers. Don't think they'd be a great match for my system, but what a tremendous relief from the ubiquitous black (or white) boxes. Harks back to a time when speakers looked like fine furniture.

Another well done, clear and enjoyable review. I'm always a fan of beautiful cabinets. In fact, my neighbor and I just completed a new cabinet for my venerable Dynaco PAS 3. Clad in Ebony with several coats of clear coat, inside wrapped in copper with a nice added vent on top for the tubes. A million years ago I had the Ebony clad Yamaha NS-1000's. Very similar to what's used on their pianos and very beautiful. This brings that back. Next up, the Dynaco tuner I have. An AF-6. I like warm and round on bottom. I'll keep these in mind. Thanks again for the really well done videos!

You are the best reviewer on KZfaq . From a technical to performance your the best. Thank You

A well thought out review and thanks. I am very fond of horn speakers and they are my foundation in my 7.2.4 system due to the ease of drive so no rewiring of my house.

Taron, thanks for your in-depth appraisal of the Fyne F700. I listened to these at a local hifi dealer, and your observations were confirmed. I've a set of Tannoy Eatons whose tonal balance are a bit better as you move off-axis, but these vintage units don't have the level of clarity that the F700's exibit. I also have L Cao FA6 single driver speakers in TQWT enclosures w/ passive radiators with the mass loading removed. As you stated, Dopler distortion creeps in as power is increased, hence why I now limit power to 12.5 wpc to keep the doplar at bay. Much appreciate your detailed review style with comparisons to similar competition. Thanks again.

Beautiful speakers. Great review as always Tarun.

Great review tarun, my first floorstander was a pair of tannoy DC3000 speakers back in 1989 I've always liked the sound of the dual concentric driver, these speakers look very similar. Looking forward to another review next weekend.

They are the best looking speakers i've seen over the last two years.Thankyou for a great review.

These speakers are extremely visually beautiful! All colors. Soooooo many details. The Willsenton R8 is just as beautiful.... the silver & black is the way to go there! Looking forward to THAT review!

Great review of an interesting new speaker. Thanks, Tarun!

Another 1st class review, please keep them coming.

Hi Tarun That was most enjoyable thanks, I spent most of your review saying, that's what causes that or that's why they can do that. For years I've had a thing for point source 'speakers ever since a pair of Westminsters I think they were, frightened 7 colours out of me playing Mars from the Planet Suite back in 1969. For me I think it's the room loading abilities of this type of 'speaker, the room becomes the venue, play something recorded in a seedy London 60s jazz club and you'll be high before you reach the living room door, those were the days. Once again I've learnt something new thank you, Sorry to go on a bit, looking forward to the next one, really do appreciate the work you put into this channel.

Altec Lansing's famous early 604 speaker was also dual concentric in design. Thanks for reviewing a company most others have missed.

The F seven hundreds look stunning! Thanks for the review.

I briefly listened to the Fyne Audio F1-8's at the Toronto Audiofest 2022, and I must say - they are one heck of a speaker. Extremely coherent, punchy yet smooth, lively, spacious, and able to throw around some weight. I was impressed to say the least.

Another excellent review! Thank you!

These are very handsome units, a hybrid of well--crafted furniture and jewelry. Looking forward to the tube amp review.

Really cool speaker. I have always liked the concept of coaxial speakers. And they look usually great and for sure here.

I like that you stated that your best amplifiers did not match with the Fynes. Been yearning for Fynes since they came out. Now, I run my personal (2nd hand) grail Reference 3a MidiMaster with an H90 as a seconde system in less than ideal conditions. The speed And(!) sweetness that you can get from a simple crossover (few parts) design, that is (in my version) a bit long in the tooth, with an amplifier that can produce current and fast is continuing to amaze me. One of these days, I will hook up the MM to my AR tubes. Wonder if that will show me limitations as for you with Fyne and Exposure or amaze me even more… Nice work man! As always!

Beautiful speakers! Thanks for the review👍👍

Great review Tarun.

Thorough review Tarun.

Very much looking forward to the tube amp review ! :)

Nice review as usual Tarun , hope you get to compare the tannoy legacy Easton which are doing well in reviews , different price bracket though.

Nice one again tarun 👍 And finally the reveal you’ve been teasing us with the willsenton tube amp lovely can’t wait for that 😀 Would love you to review the wharfedale Elysian speakers some time. Keep up the good work 🙂

Outstanding review

Lovely finish on these items! These would go down very well with my wife, who still hasnt forgiven me for replacing our 'meadowlark swifts' which i still consider one of the best looking speakers ever. Thanks for your appraisal of these interesting designs, i appreciate the engineering involved in dual concentric designs , though ive often thought the engineering issue this design introduces are nit really worth the benefits. Thanks for an interesting review.

I recently purchased the Fyne F502SP after testing about 15 other speakers (some slightly cheaper/some quite a bit more expensive - Spendor A7, Vivid Kaya 25, B&W, Amphion, etc) and the Fyne's won the contest hands down! It is an absolutely stunning sounding speaker! Very easy in terms of room placement, great bass, sound stage & dynamics. Cannot recommend the Fyne range highly enough - for the price they beat many more expensive speakers and the workmanship is just superb. Great review & keep up the good work 👍

Great review! Thanks!!

“... something I refer to as imaging.” EVERYone refers to this phenomena as imaging! Thanks for the honest review.

Superb review!

Was curious about this manufacturer, glad to know the sound signature, but I wonder if that is consistent across the range. BTW, I wish more reviewers had a range of amplifiers to swap in and out while testing speakers and then explained the synergistic differences. This type of comparison has more utility than the measurements guys offer, and obviously more than the "this-live-bootleg-recording-of-Jethro-Tull-sounded-like-I was-there-on-these-speakers" guys.

Looking forward to your review of the Willsenton R8 tube amplifier. My one is held up now in Dublin for over a week with the Irish customs. So I wonder will I have mine before your review. Excellent review as usual. Those speakers unfortunately are a little to expensive for me though.

Great review!! Since I am looking to get a pair of Tannoys, i will definitely audition these, or the next model up before decision’s made. Though I must say the electrolytic cap in the crossover put me off a lil, I guess it’s the actual sound quality that matters at the end of the day

Tarun. Superb review as always. But at 6.01, are you talking about the crossover, which had been run in? and possibly got better. You know that all speaker elements AND crossovers must be run in. Burned in. Think about your Proac when they were new and after a year of listening. Sounds better, right? Lower, firmer and more clarity. Looking forward to even more from your channel.👍

My thoughts are anybody who is willing to send their stuff to “ everyone “ is pretty confident that they sound good... and “ they “ are pretty much US .. as in audiophiles . And probably audiophiles with better heating than “ us . Thing is , most stuff today , sounds good. I’m 52 and I’ve done the endless search for refinement, liquidity and whatever . I bought the Klipsch Heresy IVs with an expensive subwoofer ( can’t skip on sub) . And I’m done .. DONE! Then I’ve ordered a tube amp to go with them ( still waiting) but As far as speakers , I’m done. I have Focals and LS/35a and the usual suspects. When you get done with refined and boring , you will come around. Just ask Gutenberg:) Love the channel

Always well presented reviews! Any comments re: differences between the F1-5 and F-700 - especially transparency, detail & low level listening - would be appreciated. Thanks...from USA.

From my pro days always loved the coherence and clarity of tannoy mix monitor speakers. I tended to gravitate towards the 8" due to better bass. Would love to hear these speakers. Thanks for the excellent review.

Fyne F501 user here. I'd like to add one advantage to concentrics: At least my ears are very sensitive to direction and driver characteristics. I was shopping for a ribbon-tweeted speaker, but found myself distinguishing between the different drivers too much. The technique came between me and the music. That being said, your description about the type of listener experience around 6:50 is spot on, for the F501 at least. In fact, the speakers have drawn me into more intimate, vocal or acoustical, genres. The F501 being floorstanders and having a second bass-driver packs more of a punch, but no doubt loses a bit of point-source clarity and coherence. Especially with the upgrades to the 7-series. That tonal richness you mention in combination with the way it fills the room is what won me over. Where my experience differs (yes, with other speakers) from yours, is at low level listening. In fact, the F501 are a bit too engaging at low levels to my taste: in my room and setup it is difficult to use them for a background music in a room with some conversation or a dinner. Just because even at low levels they engage that much more then other speakers I had, like Magnat project 4 and Linn Nexus. Probably because of bass extension, and / or the difference between standmount and floorstander.

The H90 I have seems to drive most good speakers really well. This was my first of 3 Hegels and is still my favorite in terms of price/performance.

The design is 👌👌 love the finish and the overall look of this, but also the other Fyne Products.

Thank you for all of your excellent work. Would you be able to review the F703s or F704s? I cannot locate any in southern Californian to listen to before I buy.

Simply beautiful design | one that I’m actually viewing as an upgrade over my Fyne F500’s, should | when said desire strikes me in months or years to come.

Stunning looks indeed.

Tarun, I like that we get to compare most of the products to your Proacs, it´s as if we get to know them a bit more for each review. But as I understand you have had them for 20 years and theyre still holding up to the competition today. At the Proacs inflation-adjusted pricepoint of today, would you still buy them if you started fresh. Or would you end up with something else?

A correction if I may? I specialise in building speakers using vintage Tannoy drivers. I have spoken with Dr Mills on this design. It is not true that they do not have similar dynamics due to the smaller horn compared with conventional speakers. It uses the woofer and a waveguide, essentially acting as a full mid range before the flared horn kicks in fully for the hf. The benefits of this which you didn't mention is that they effectively create a true passive cardiod response and importantly, control directivity across the full frequency range meaning toed in much more than you had them, you get less reflection off side walls, a more accurate room power response of lower thd than conventional multi drivers whose position results in field lobing or asymmetric wave propogaton with comb filtering. You need to toe them in immediately in front of the listening position so the axis crosses only when you move your head a few inches forward. Try them like this....they'll image better and wont sound as hard in the horn. If it weren't for the fact mine are rather large, you would be welcome to take them and try those. You won't find them lacking in detail or dynamics. Those fynes cannot be expected to be ultra dynamic with a single 6 inch woofer which has a true cone area of more like 4.5 to 5 inches! You need proper big cones...12 or 15 inch, to do the dynamics you're expecting really. This necessitates cabs of 100 to 140 litres using 12 inch dc drivers. They'll literally blow your socks off!

That finish is gorgeous.

Great review. Having just learned of Fyne, it's clear some serious thinking went into every detail of these systems. You mention the tweeter filter is 1st order and woofer filter is 2nd order. I can't tell about the woofer, but the presence of the smaller inductor is characteristic of a 2nd order high-pass. Did you get that backwards? Just curious.

Taran, a couple dimensions not covered in your otherwise excellent and thorough review. How well suited or not are those speakers for a large room if there are no expectations to ever want loud listening in that room, i.e. not the primary listening audio room? Any insights on how it compares to the 500 series models, either also standmounts, or floorstanders? The price jump betweeen the 500 and 700 series is huge here in Canada! Thanks!!

Great review. The Fyne Audio are similar to my Tannoy xt8f. I would be interested in hearing you view on the Fyne Audio floor standers in this range.

I think it's quite important to point out when doing speaker review's that a speaker that sounds great in your room might not necessarily sound as good in another persons room. I myself have experienced this when listening to a set of speakers in 2 different rooms. I think we can all agree that the room plays a BIG factor in how a speaker sounds.

The ProAcs survive another day! :o) I believe Technics are also using a coaxial tweeter on some of their new line up of speakers

Great review. What would you compare them to? Do you know the ls50s?

Very good looking speakers 🔊

I can see why the other speakers may have more air. Those speakers have baffle mounted H.F. units which allows the highs to radiate in a wider patten then the horn/wave guided H.F. units in these speakers. That means this speaker is providing less delayed H.F. energy from reflections. Either option is a preference. I tend to lean toward clarity, than diffuseness caused by delayed reflections. I am a person who loves detail and color, both can be hidden or at least reduced by reflections. That said, I am surprised these speakers don't have high level top end detail.

Always great to reduce incoming RFI .. keeps me awake at night.

Interesting speakers...Because have ATC P1...paired with ATC SCM 40...and 2× REL T9/ they sound good only on loud listening, but..I live in apartmant...have neighbours...etc... This sound as a nice alternative for a lower volumes. Will " investigate" Thank you on another ...near brilliant insight🙂👌

My 502s work ever so sweet with my EAR preamp and Plinius SA103 power, go neutral with FYNE

Didn't know about the Tannoy link but I did think they resembled the dual concentric driver's that Tannoy's use.

Interesting road to walk through for cabinets, materials : MDF, to birch plywood to the large and vast family of natural wood. I happen to have the exactly the same speaker design in two different natural wood, that is bamboo (the hardest) and walnut. So everything but the wood cabinet is equal. Do they sound the same ? Surely not. Which do I prefer ? Walnut, strangely not the hardest... Maybe because they are small designs, where cabinet strength is already high... then mystery of wood applies.

Thanks, Tarun. I'm a bit of a nugget miner myself. I misspoke when I said my collected minutiae was useless. A couple years ago I wrote a murder mystery ("What You Wish For"). when people say "Write what you know", they are not joking. I found this stuff jumping onto the page and filling out my story with some hopefully interesting bits for the reader. I guess nothing is wasted in the long run. In writing the novel I discovered something else, I will not be writing another novel.

Curious to hear your thoughts on the Fyne F702 floorstanders. They look stunning but there's competition & a range of options at the price point.

They do look good. I heard some 500's between lockdowns and they had a similar character it would seem.

Hi Tarun, I am interested in the F700 and appreciate your review. Howerver, for me sonic is more important than look. I wonder for the same price range which brand would you recommend that has better sound quality. My amp is NAD M33 and a small room (11'x11'). Thanks in advance.

have you auditioned the Tannoy Revolution XT series XT6 and the XT Mini. The XT Mini has a smaller tweeter diaphragm and it stages and images better than the larger XT6 but of course the bigger loudspeaker does play louder and go lower. These are the most advanced DC design Tannoy has done to date. They do however take a long time to fully burn in but they are both worth the wait time.

My coaxial elac ub5's (albeit with a separate woofer) give me that great dynamics, bass response and wide sound stage I crave in my electronic music. I just need to find a more tonally accurate speaker that can give me the dynamics and same performance at low volumes.

Ooooh that walnut finish is gorgeous 🤑 If I could afford them, I wouldn't mind if they didn't sound very good at all 😂

Ever reviewed any Totems? Maybe the Sky or Signature One would be of interest? They do things a bit differently, might make for an interesting comparison. On another note surely every Audiophile dreams of trying some big tannoys, pref 15" concentric drivers! Yes please!

Good afternoon mate , Just want to pick your expert brains , I recently purchased a system for my dining room a denon dm41 dab , I’m looking to improve the speakers it came with , I will be putting them on a sideboard about 3 feet apart and 6 inches from the rear wall , I know it’s not perfect but it’s only a 2nd system to listen to while we eat our dinner , I’ve been thinking about q acoustics 3020 in gloss black which I found n offer for £150 , also Costco have the klipsch r41 for £179 which I believe to be a great price , which out of the two would you say are the best for my needs and the placement were I will put them , also any others you think may be better for me would be fantastic, Thanks in advance mate 👌

Tarun, pls see if you can get a pair of neat iota alphas in. I want to see what you think

Hi Tarun. Interesting design and technologies that Fyne have and also interesting that the founders of the company came from Tannoy. They do have some similarities in the way they look, to Tannoy. They sound like a very good speaker for the money and I'm wondering how much better their floorstanders are.

Another great video Tarun, Beautiful speakers. Please could you review the Fyne Audio F302 Floor standing speaker, a more affordable model that gets good reviews but i would love your thoughts! 👌

Curious but are you able to tell the countries your subscribers are from and if so if large number are from the USA then it would be great for you to review products that have dealers here in the USA. Those Fyne's it seems are mostly for the Euro market. Nice review and noticed additional product visuals of past reviewed items.

These are literally the only speakers that I've ever demoed. Not too many Hi-Fi shops in the states these days. The music store that I go to is actually a dealer for Fyne and Rega. And I really liked how cohesive that woofer is with the Tweeter! Edit. These were on my short list. But I got a smoking deal on some Revel m126be! Never thought I'd be in a position to spend this kind of money on hi-fi equipment but I promise you if you want it bad enough work hard enough and save long enough you can own whatever you want!

Great review however there’s no mention of poise and articulation which these have in spades. I have the F1-5’s and they are world class.

Tarun, I just found out about this brand back in February. Was it started by some ex - Tannoy designers?

Pls do sometimes test of some vintage speaters and amplifers.like JBL and Altec

Well, at least they are aesthetically pleasing and using Baltic birch as a cabinet material is unconventional. It won’t make me replace my ProAc EBTs, but the cabinets are visually striking. Good luck to them. Cryogenics will not improve sand cast resistors nor will it do so with iron core inductors as these two components are why so many speakers sound bad. Still hoping for a speaker stand video. Stay safe mates!😊👍🏻😷

Would you please let me know which one you will select between Tannoy Autograph Mini and fyne Audio F700?

Hello, will they sound good with Nad m10 v2, please tell me, I have a Nad amplifier, and I want to pick up speakers, Kef R3 Meta, Dali Rubicon 2, or these? Thank you

I was going to get the F500 SP but I listen to large orchestral works. I know it's a different speaker but now I'm worried that they wouldn't handle that well. Any thoughts? I was going to get the Klipsch rp 600mkii because I'm looking for a horn loaded speaker around the £1000-£1500 that can handle various genres.

do they sound like the tannoy dc8bs? they look similar in many ways and engineered by the same people almost.

great looking speaker.... You should check out sonus faber amator...they are gorgeous....Any chance to review a Graham Chartwell LS6? same price category...

I wonder how you compare this F700 with Argon Amphion 3S that are at the similar price point?

Tried cryogenically treating the 'Missus. Before there was a certain edginess and harshness to her presentation. After I took her down to -150c and then back up to room temperature, found everything much smoother and quieter.

Having no money, and on a uk pension, two weeks ago found a pair of fyne f300 speakers,took a punt and hooked them to a audiolab 8000a,well ,well blown away for £50 squids.

I think they've missed the ball there could be so much better! I don't like the crossover and be better make it 3rd or 4th order for the tweeter maybe a second-order for the woofer put a 6 order bass port in should be able to get it down to 38 Hz do you know the resonance of the driver! I think the driver could do with one or two wizar would be beneficial. I think a naim amplifier would be a good pairing with that acoustic research possibly, bi-amping is going to be the way to go with this speaker

Well done thanks.

I just got the FyneAudio F502 😀

Looking forward to your review of the Willsenton R8. Hope I can enjoy it without it creating too much of an itch.

Nice review , thanks . But can you please go back to releasing them on Sunday mornings please as I prefer watching them then. 😁

Which speaker do you recommend for full scale orchestra in the near field

Fyne Audio 👍 700 series is great but 502SP is good enough for me, with the same drivers. 😁

Could you review a Blumenhofer Speaker? maybe the fun13mk2?

Excellent review and we'll done. Did I see electrolytic capacitor in the crossover? If yes it's too bad! These type of capacitors will dry over the years and will change there value leading to changing the sound character. and eventually die. These type of capacitors are cheap and tend to fail over the years much Sooner than film capacitors that are more expensive but reliable. I hope it's not electrolytic because that means manufacturer is cutting corners. Is electrolytic or else? It's not clear . But the review itself is excellent. I like the Way you do it.

Beautiful, lustrous speakers. Too blingy for me. It suits 007 perfectly, especially when he wears the Omega Seamaster Professional. I’m glad our tiny but mighty Proacs are still in the fight!

thanks

Will you ever review a Sonus Faber speaker. The minima amator possibly?