Ruark MR1 Mk2 Bluetooth speaker system
Ruark Audio, once a builder of traditional loudspeakers, has reinvented itself over the last decade through nifty DAB radios and other compact audio systems. These MR1s saw the company putting several of the company’s key technologies into a neat pair of standalone powered speakers. Originally released in 2013, they are now in a Mk2 version, still just as usefully compact.
Size and design
Yep, compact indeed. They stand, basically, 175mm tall by 130mm wide and 135mm deep, so usefully small that you might expect them to be, shall we say, less than full in their sound. (Spoiler: you’d be wrong.)
They certainly have an attractive design, with their rounded edges and
