Kudos Audio Cardea Super 10A
■ Standmount speakers
■ £4000
“There’s a good amount of low-end grunt but it’s the speakers’ ability to paint bass textures that impresses most”
On first acquaintance the Kudos Audio Cardea Super 10A seem like pretty conventional speakers. They are mediumsized, two-way standmounters with a rectangular wooden box and rear-firing reflex port. Nothing special there, right? Except there is, and it’s built on a foundation of obsessive engineering and careful sonic tuning rather than ground-breaking tech, flamboyant industrial design or innovative materials.
The Cardea Super 10A tweeter’s fabric dome or the paper of its mid/bass driver aren’t as attention grabbing as Beryllium, Kevlar or Diamond, but that doesn’t mean the drivers
