Richter’s own ‘Legend’ series is now in Series 6, a complete redesign while maintaining the goals of this Aussie brand currently celebrating its 35th anniversary. And its success can be gauged by the fact that three of the four new models have won our Sound+Image awards, including these standmounting Merlins.
The design brief for the latest Merlins was established after two years of research to make sure the new version would, as Richter put it, “pass the pub test”. The research established, for example, that peg-and-socket grille attachments are not much loved, partly because they can break, but also because they leave holes showing on the front baffle for the many Australians who don’t use the grilles. So the new Merlin has a magnetic grille. There’s also a badge under the…
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Sound + Image (Digital) - 1 Issue, November - December 2021