After receiving for no less than five consecutive years the award for “Best Set of Acoustic Boxes of Price Less than 500 Pounds Sterling” (a little less than €600) awarded by the prestigious British specialized publication What Hi-Fi?the Wharfedale DX-2 system has just undergone an ambitious update in the form of the DX-3. Compact, stylish and extraordinarily affordable, this new “pack” of speakers for Home Theater has been firstly aesthetically remodeled with a design close to that of the brand’s celebrated Diamond 12 Series, with slimmer enclosures but also equipped with a resonance control and superior dynamic performance.
Like the DX-2, the DX-3 consists of four front and rear satellitesa compact central acoustic box and a active subwoofer tuned to achieve perfect integration with the first and second. Redesigned with the aim of offering sound performance More refined, the satellites mount a silk dome tweeter and a “midwoofer” with a polypropylene-based cone, whose acoustic properties are very similar to those of the speakers that can be found in the aforementioned Diamond 12 Series. For their part, the extension of the bass response is entrusted to the 203 mm diameter woofer incorporated in the system subwoofer, capable of performing large displacements without distortion and which has a structure very similar to that of the popular Wharfedale WH-D8 model.
Excited by a 70 watt amplifier capable of delivering 150 watts peak, this transducer allows the DX-3 to meet the high demands of modern cinema films in terms of dynamics and depth from the lower part of the spectrum. Thanks to all this, fruit of the years of experience and mastery of technology of the audio behind the development of the DX-3, this new set of speakers (which can be expanded to more channels as the satellites are available in 2.0 and 5.0 configurations) becomes a ideal proposal for those looking save space and budget without sacrificing even one iota of the excitement of Home Cinema.
