Name: Best $500 Speaker? This could be "THE ONE" Wharfedale Denton 80th Anniversary Review
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Hey, I'm Randy and you're watching The Cheap Audio Man.

Here at The Cheap Audio Man, we talk about high-value hi-fi, home theater, and headphone equipment.

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And today, very exciting, very high value, it's the Wharfdale Denton, the 80th anniversary.

So sit down, grab a cup of coffee, and let's talk about this classic speaker that's as low as it's ever been, today.

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I have always wanted to get one of these speakers in.

The problem is, for me, the Denton was always a bit outside of my price range.

However, I talked to the fine folks over at Wharfdale and they talked to me about, hey, would you be interested in reviewing the Denton?

Actually, I think I reached out to them and said, hey, can I get the Dentons in to listen to them?

There's a few different models still out there.

There's the 85th edition and the 80th edition.

This is the 80th edition, which means it's the more affordable option.

It's even more affordable today because for the first time ever, maybe, I don't know, it's $500. $500 for a pair of the Denton, the 80th edition, which are now available on Wharfdale's website.

These come in two colors, walnut and mahogany.

They remind me, obviously so, of the Linton.

The reason why is everything from how the grill is beveled right here and kind of sits flush, the front of the speaker sits like this and then it goes in there.

Yeah, I know you can't smell it and I can't smell it, but if you could smell it, it would smell real nice, like real wood veneer.

On the back, dual ports and the very traditional Wharfdale bi-wire, bi-amp option with offset binding posts.

I personally don't bi-amp or bi-wire, but if you'd like to, you certainly can with these.

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This has a one inch soft dome tweeter and a five inch woven Kevlar woofer.

Don't shoot your speaker with a gun because the woofer is not going to stop it even though it's made out of Kevlar.

Negative three DB, 44 Hertz goes up to 24,000 Hertz on the top end.

I got a joke in here about weight, but let me tell you how big they are.

So they're 7.8 inches wide, 10.8 inches tall and 12.6 inches deep.

They had two six and a half inch woofers, one, one inch soft dome tweeter, and they were a Tower and they were braced really, really well.

And they were a pound and a half heavier than these, which tells me if I had to make a guess, I'm no speaker designer or anything.

I would think that the 17.4 pound bookshelf speaker that's this size would be built a little bit better and have less resonance issues than the 19 pound giant Tower speaker.

Let's just take that and chalk it up to, Hey, this thing is braced well, maybe it's built pretty good.

These may take a bit of a little bit of power.

They say they 20 to a hundred watts is what they can take or what they should take.

I had them on a pair of A1 Emotiva monoblocks.

I think that's putting out around 50 clean watts.

The Dentons did great on the IEMA as well. 86, a little bit low, six Ohms, kind of middle, middle of the road, not as hard to drive as some Elacs and things like that.

I wouldn't go crazy about how much power you have to put on these.

However, better amp, more power, probably going to play a little bit better.

You have like this kind of rubbery surround.

I don't particularly know what that's doing.

I know it's there for something because I've seen it on other speakers before, so it's got that going for it.

And then the tweeter doesn't have a huge wave guide, but as we'll talk about in soundstage and imaging, you're not missing anything.

Speaking about soundstage and imaging, let's talk about soundstage and imaging.

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