EJ JORDAN MARLOW LOUDSPEAKER

Intrigued by his small, full-range drive units, I used to chat with the late Ted Jordan¹ at hi-fi shows when I lived in the UK. So, when Herb Reichert told me that he was reviewing an LS3/5a-sized standmount speaker that used the latest version of the Jordan driver, I volunteered to measure it.

The EJ Jordan Marlow is sold direct from the UK and costs £1960/pair (equivalent to $2650/pair at the time of writing) including free shipping to the US. HR enthused about the sound of the Marlow in his April 2020 Gramophone Dreams column: The EJ Jordan Marlow “offers a unique form of unmitigated clarity that will not be easily matched by conventional boxes with multiple drivers and crossovers,” he wrote. “Its superfocused imaging and extraordinary transparency made recordings sound unusually direct and unsullied.” He did caution that the Marlow’s 4" drive unit “cannot move enough air to sound big, strong, or real,”