FLOORSTANDING LOUDSPEAKERS
We’ve seen several pairs of standmounting speakers so far in this issue of Best Buys Audio & AV, but if you’ve just been been through our ‘floorstanders vs standmounts’ guide and have come down on the side of full-size cabinets, then please welcome, all the way from France, Triangle’s BR08 floorstanders, from its successful and well-regarded Borea series.
Triangle (pronounced, of course, ) has been making solid and sometimes radical speaker designs for more than 40 years. If you’re thinking that ‘Triangle’ is a strange name for a company making rectangular boxes, that’s because their debut model back in 1980 was a tower with a distinctive triangular upper enclosure — or actually a square-based pyramidal frustum if you want to be entirely geometrically