Are Wharfedale a good brand of speakers?

[Brian]

I saw an advert for some surround sound Wharfedale speakers which
consist of:
120watt Wharfedale shelf speakers
100watt Wharfedale evolution center speaker
200watt Wharfedale floor speakers
150watt Wharfedale powered subwoofer

Are these speakers of good quality or are they low budget type
speakers?
What country makes Wharfedale speakers?

Regards Brian

[Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro]

Brian > wrote:
> Are these speakers of good quality or are they low budget type
> speakers?

Yes.

> What country makes Wharfedale speakers?

See
http://www.wharfedale.co.uk/home.php
http://www.wharfedale.co.uk/type.php?type_id=1
http://www.wharfedale.co.uk/company.php

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[Robert Morein]

"François Yves Le Gal" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:29:14 +1200, Brian > wrote:
>
> >Are these speakers of good quality or are they low budget type
> >speakers?
>
> Wharfedale has a number of quality budget speakers in their line-up. What
> are the actual model numbers?
>
> >What country makes Wharfedale speakers?
>
> People's Republic of China. Wharfedale is part of the International Audio
> Group, a Chinese company based in Hong-Kong and Macau, with their main
> offices and factory in Shenzhen.
>
Not still designed in Britain?

[Robert Morein]

"François Yves Le Gal" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:22:50 -0400, "Robert Morein" >
> wrote:
>
> >Not still designed in Britain?
>
> Partly.
>
I have a set of Diamond Sevens. Took them apart to replace the tweeters,
which, unfortunately were rendered fragile by the simple (1st order?)
crossover. They were stamped as made in UK.
I wonder if the successors still have drivers made in the UK ?

[Brian]

François Yves Le Gal > wrote:

>On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:29:14 +1200, Brian > wrote:
>
>>Are these speakers of good quality or are they low budget type
>>speakers?
>
>Wharfedale has a number of quality budget speakers in their line-up. What
>are the actual model numbers?
>
>>What country makes Wharfedale speakers?
>
>People's Republic of China. Wharfedale is part of the International Audio
>Group, a Chinese company based in Hong-Kong and Macau, with their main
>offices and factory in Shenzhen.
>
>
Thanks Francois for your reply.
They are Wharfedale home theater Evolution speakers.
The self speakers are KentB
The floor speakers are 40B

Regards Brian

[Brian]

Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro > wrote:

>Brian > wrote:
>> Are these speakers of good quality or are they low budget type
>> speakers?
>
>Yes.
>
>> What country makes Wharfedale speakers?
>
>See
> http://www.wharfedale.co.uk/home.php
> http://www.wharfedale.co.uk/type.php?type_id=1
> http://www.wharfedale.co.uk/company.php

Thanks for the links Rui.
I'm hoping to get comments from on these speakers as the wharfedale
site will only tell me the good things about these speakers.
It's good that I get a "yes" to my first question.

Regards Brian

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Brian wrote:
> I saw an advert for some surround sound Wharfedale speakers which
> consist of:
> 120watt Wharfedale shelf speakers
> 100watt Wharfedale evolution center speaker
> 200watt Wharfedale floor speakers
> 150watt Wharfedale powered subwoofer
>
> Are these speakers of good quality or are they low budget type
> speakers?

If you can find an issue of the British magazine "What HiFi?," any
issue should have brief reviews of many Wharfedale models. Just look at
all the brief reviews in the back of the magazine.

I'm in the US and can find it at larger newsstands and big book stores
like Barnes & Noble and Borders. I haven't looked at the magazine
lately, so I can't give you any comments.

There's also a web site, but I don't see reviews there:

www.whathifi.com

And you might want to try:

http://www.wharfedale.co.uk/home.php

http://www.avguide.com/AVG_monthly/index.jsp

Also search the above web site. And use Google.com or other search
engines to search the web and newsgroups.

CompUSA stores carry some Wharfedale models.

> What country makes Wharfedale speakers.

See other comments in this thread.

> Regards Brian