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Wharfedale Evo 4.4 5.1 pack

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£2475

Wharfedale’s Evo series occupies an unenviable position in company’s speaker offering, flanked by the wildly successful budget Diamond range and the superb flagship Elysians – which, despite their premium price, still represent an excellent return in terms of sound per pound investment.

But don’t presume Evo is the overlooked middle child of this overachieving speaker family. Developed concurrently with Elysian, Evo is packed with technology that uses the same concepts as its bigger sibling, bringing a high-minded approach that is anything but middling to this refined but relaxed speaker package.

The Evo series includes floorstanders, bookshelf speakers and centre channel speakers with two size options available. The flagship Evo 4.4 and smaller, similarly specified Evo 4.3 floorstanders boast a three-way design, as does the Evo 4.2 bookshelf speaker; the

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