Recent Floorstanding Speaker Reviews

JBL’s flagship 4369 Studio Monitor boasts a new 15″ woofer, HDI horn design, and advanced crossover for stunning clarity and power — a $23K audiophile floorstander. Is it a new benchmark?

Bang & Olufsen celebrates its 100th anniversary with the Beolab 90 Titan Edition loudspeakers—an all-metal, 18-driver, 8,200W powerhouse priced at a whopping $211K per pair. But are they worth it?

Arendal’s 1610 Series brings 1528-level engineering—time-aligned baffles, waveguides, carbon mids, and serious cabinets—into a more manageable, music-first loudspeaker built for real rooms.

DALI’s new SONIK Series loudspeakers span standmount, floorstanding, on-wall, and center models, featuring SMC magnet technology and Clarity Cone drivers, priced from $900 to $4,500 per pair.

Sonus faber and Lamborghini teamed up again, this time to create the $130K Il Cremonese Ex3me – Automobili Lamborghini Edition loudspeakers. The line is limited to just 50 pairs, so get yours now!

The Focal DIVA MEZZA UTOPIA ($69K/pair) is an active wireless streaming speaker with four 8" woofers, a 6.5" mid, 1" Beryllium tweeter, and 500 watts of Naim amplification for stunning wireless sound.

The New GoldenEar T44 ($4,900–$5,300/pair) is a slim, compact floor-stander with powered bass. It's the first new GoldenEar speaker since PML Sound International’s acquisition; we give our impressions.

Norway’s Ø Audio debuted its 2nd-gen Icon 12 loudspeaker ($23,4k/pair) at the 2025 FAE Show, delivering a stunning demo. Now available in the USA, this brand aspires to be the next hot ticket in hi-fi.

Sigberg Audio's Saranna is a high-end active speaker with a coaxial tweeter/midrange and dual 8" subwoofers in a cardioid alignment, ensuring big performance and easy room placement in a sleek package.

The Arendal Sound 1961 Loudspeaker Series has returned to production after a two-year hiatus. The 1961 Series is perfect for smaller spaces and lower budgets, without sacrificing quality.

Dali's Rubikore 8 is a formidable tower speaker design with three 6.5" woofers, a 1" dome tweeter, and a 2" planar tweeter, with individual filters on every single driver. Read on.

The Yamaha NS-2000A is a premium 3-way floorstanding speaker ($8k/pair) with exclusive materials, resonance control, and a piano gloss finish. Check out our review with measurements and listening tests!

Arendal Sound 1528 Tower 8 and Center 8+ speakers deliver audiophile sound, advanced tech, exceptional build quality & value, but there are caveats. Our review dives deep with measurements & listening.

DALI’s new EPIKORE series, priced $15K–$60K per pair, delivers some of the best looks and sound in their class. With striking design and precision craftsmanship, these Danish-made speakers impressed us.

We reviewed the Focal Aria Evo X No.4 ($6k/pair) 3-way floorstanding speaker with dual 8" flax bass drivers, a 6.5" midrange, and 1” aluminum-magnesium tweeter to see if its performance matched its looks.

Focal releases its first all-in-one active streaming speaker, the DIVA UTOPIA ($40K/pair). The DIVA UTOPIA uses Ultra Wideband tech to establish a high-res wireless connection between the speakers.

Arendal Sound’s 1528 series is their top performing 3-way loudspeaker line with advanced technologies. The 1528 Tower 8(MSRP: $9,500/pair) weighs 174lbs/ea and delivers class leading fidelity.

RBH Sound proves you can get big sound out of a small speaker with their Impression Series 85-i tower. They have an 8" bass driver tuned for deep bass without the need for a external sub.

We reviewed RBH Sound's 61-SFM/R modular loudspeaker, which upgrades their premium bookshelf to a full-range tower featuring a top-notch AMT tweeter, a 6.5" midrange driver, and dual 8" bass drivers.

Arendal Sound's flagship 1723 tower speaker comes with an impressive array of four 8" woofers and a tweeter nested in a large metal waveguide. It is THX Ultra certified and looks it. Read on.

Our full review of the flagship of SVS's hotly anticipated new loudspeaker series is here; read our full review of the SVS Ultra Evolution Pinnacle loudspeaker to see if it lives up to the hype!

Sonus faber has launched the Suprema ($750,000), a new flagship mega-speaker. The Suprema system comprises a pair of towers and a pair of tall towers and a pair of dual-15-inch passive subwoofers.

MoFi released their new SourcePoint 888 floorstander ($5K/pair). Designer Andrew Jones engineered new 8-inch woofers to give these 3-way towers deeper extension than their SourcePoint 8 bookshelves.

RBH Sound new 3rd-generation Impression Series of loudspeakers are reasonably priced and deliver RBH’s solid engineering and unusually high build quality all while being made in the USA!

Bowers & Wilkins has introduced its new 700 S3 Signature Series. The 702 floorstanders ($9,000/pair), 705 stand-mount($4,500/pair), and HTM71 center-channel($3,300 each) all have new upgrades!

Focal’s new Aria Evo X loudspeakers include five models: N°1, N°2, N°3, N°4, and a center channel. Our demo at FAE 2024 reveled them to have near Kanta level performance at about half the price.