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Wharfedale’s Heritage project delivers a further upgrade of a design dating back 60 years. Andrew Everard gets nostalgic

At the time of the acquisition of Wharfedale by China-based IAG, there was much gnashing of teeth over the chances of the new owners disregarding a company heritage dating back to 1932. Mind you, similar worries were expressed when the same outfit snapped up Castle, Quad and Leak, and more recently Mission, then Audiolab… The worries have of course proved unfounded; not only has IAG breathed new life into its brands, it’s also proved sensitive to all that history. It still makes the latest versions of Quad’s classic electrostatic speakers, has developed Audiolab with the likes of the latest 9000 series and – as of two years ago – is back making selected speaker models in the UK, having built a new production space, complete with anechoic chamber, at its…

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