Wharfedale Achromatic WA-S1

The best bookshelf loudspeakers disappear into your listening and viewing environment. They playback the low-end, midrange, and high frequencies with tonal accuracy, non-fatiguing smoothness, and engaging realism. They simply get out of the way of the source material and add no coloration of their own. Named for such purity, Wharfedale Achromatic WA-S1 is such a bookshelf loudspeaker. Its compact frame belies its rich, satisfying sound, and its performance belittles that available from packaged systems.

 

"With all four corners of the room anchored by identical WA-S1 satellites, the soundfield was strong on every side and the center speaker held its own in the front...In this sat/sub configuration, the Achromatic speaker system makes an excellent case for Wharfedale as the brand exists today. These speakers are beautifully designed and they easily navigate the subtleties of recordings and movie soundtracks."
– Mark Fleischman, Home Theater

Offering value, looks, and quality, WA-S1 gives you what you wouldn't think possible given its price or size. An aluminum inverted-dome drive unit accompanied by a high-sensitivity voice coil team up to deliver immaculate sound. In addition, line-arrays of three-inch drivers enhance bass extension, ensure accuracy, proffer rich, full, powerful playback, and effortless integration. The small form factor and classy appearance mirror the speaker's modern functionality.

In every regard, Achromatic WA-S1 boasts a plethora of design elements that enhance the realism of music and film reproduction. An audiophile-caliber suspension unit provides damping and a large, high-gauss ferrite magnet system supplies exceptional drive to reproduce even the most dynamic transients. Cooled with ferrofluid to maintain a constant operating temperature and avoid thermal compression, the 25mm soft-dome tweeter is capable of a resolution well beyond 20kHz--a level far above the upper threshold of human hearing. You--and your pets--will be grateful.