• As transparent, natural and insightful as any box speaker
• Wonderfully expressive dynamics
• Excellent build and finish
• Fussy-looking plinth arrangement
$68,000
As a global team we listen to hundreds of products every year. Some are bad, some are mediocre, many are good and the odd few are truly excellent. But then, once or twice in a decade if we are lucky, we come across something truly sublime. And Wilson Benesch’s A.C.T. 3Zero loudspeakers are one of those very rare somethings.
Now, we are no strangers to Wilson Benesch speakers. I myself own a pair of Square One, and collectively we have fallen for a number of its models over the years, right back to the British company's first speakers, the A.C.T. One, in the 1990s. Those hugely impressive floorstanders set the engineering template for everything that has followed. And the One’s DNA clearly still runs strongly through the 3Zero.
Those originals pioneered the use of curved speaker cabinets; the shape reduced the buildup of internal standing waves. But we don’t think that was the most important part. The clue lies with the initials A.C.T., an acronym for Advanced Composite Technology. What does that
