(October/November 2021, Read Full Review) Somewhere Henry Kloss, the speaker’s original designer, is smiling. Veteran audio reviewer Tom Norton was impressed by the “huge sonic bubble” the Fives conveyed and noted how the speakers excelled with female vocals. Otherwise, it has a 10-inch pulp-paper woofer and the same rear-panel Low/Mid/Hi switch found on its predecessor. The speaker remains true to the original’s three-way acoustic-suspension design but uses a modern 1-inch aluminum-dome tweeter and a single 4-inch pulp-paper midrange driver instead of the two side-by-side 5-inch drivers in the original. ![]() KLH, one of the classic speaker brands that gave rise to mass-market hi-fi in the 1960s, is back with a re-imagined version of the iconic Model Five. Whether you’re looking for a set of floorstanding speakers for music or want to build a surround-sound system around them, the Canton Chrono 70 is a speaker that, as reviewer Michael Trei put it, punches way above its weight class. The speaker is a rear-ported two-and-a-half-way design that mates an aluminum-manganese tweeter with two 6-inch aluminum woofers in a stately 37-inch-tall cabinet offered in black or white. Among the first wave of products to arrive on these shores is the impressive looking - and sounding - Chrono 70 floorstander, one of the few speakers made in Europe, not China. ![]() The 50-year-old German brand Canton recently made its way back to the States after a decade-long hiatus. Click here for Speaker shopping and tech tipsĬanton Chrono 70 Loudspeaker: $1,995/pair
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