Wharfedale
Pioneering British loudspeakers since 1932.
Wharfedale has been at the forefront of loudspeaker design for over 90 years. From the groundbreaking work of founder Gilbert Briggs to today's award-winning designs, Wharfedale combines British engineering heritage with outstanding musical performance at every price point.
Philosophy
Founded in the Yorkshire Dales in 1932 by Gilbert Briggs, Wharfedale has spent over 90 years pursuing a single goal: making music sound real. Briggs was the first manufacturer to stage live vs. recorded comparison concerts for audiences — a test of musical conviction that shaped the company's DNA. Today, that same commitment drives every Wharfedale design, from the accessible Diamond to the flagship Elysian.
Products
Technologies
The innovations that make Wharfedale products extraordinary.
AMT Tweeter
Air Motion Transformer precision.
Invented by physicist Dr. Oskar Heil, the Air Motion Transformer uses a folded, pleated diaphragm immersed in a powerful magnetic field to squeeze air laterally — like the bellows of an accordion — moving air four times faster than the diaphragm itself. The result is vanishingly low distortion, exceptional transient speed, and an effortless, open high-frequency response that conventional dome tweeters cannot match. Used across the Elysian, Aura, and EVO 5 ranges in sizes from 27×90 mm to 90 mm.
Glass Fibre Matrix Cone
The perfect bass and midrange diaphragm.
Wharfedale's woven glass fibre matrix cone offers an ideal combination of low mass and high stiffness, with a high-plasticity coating that provides damping to suppress high-frequency resonance. Unlike paper or polymer cones, the woven structure breaks up resonances at a microscopic level, resulting in a fast, detailed midrange free from colouration. Used in Elysian and Aura series drivers, terminated by high-flexibility rubber surrounds for transient accuracy and mounted on die-cast aluminium chassis.
SLPP Bass Loading
Slot-Loaded Profiled Port.
Wharfedale's Slot-Loaded Profiled Port directs high-pressure, high-velocity airflow through a series of precisely shaped slot ports in the speaker's plinth, rather than using a conventional round port. This reduces turbulence, eliminates port noise, and improves overall efficiency — delivering deeper, better-controlled bass from a given cabinet volume with improved dynamic performance at high listening levels. The SLPP system features across the Elysian, Aura, and EVO 5 ranges.
Woven Kevlar Drivers
Heritage-grade bass and midrange.
The Heritage and EVO 5 series use black woven Kevlar cone drivers — a material renowned for its exceptional strength-to-weight ratio and natural damping characteristics. Kevlar's inherent stiffness ensures pistonic motion across the operating band, while its fibrous structure provides controlled internal damping that prevents ringing and colouration. Each driver is paired with a precision-wound voice coil and low-distortion motor system for detailed, dynamic bass reproduction.
Sandwich Cabinet Construction
Resonance killed at the source.
Wharfedale's multi-layer cabinet construction bonds layers of different wood products together with high-damping adhesive — typically 6 mm MDF outer walls bonded to 12 mm high-density particle board inner walls. This sandwich structure shifts panel resonances below audibility and prevents energy storage that colours the sound. The Elysian and Aura series add precision-shaped internal bracing and curved cabinet walls to further reduce standing waves and diffract sound evenly.
Dome Midrange Driver
Point-source purity for the critical band.
The EVO 5 series features a dedicated soft-dome midrange driver with a plasticiser coating for extra damping — an unusual and impressive feature at its price point. With a linear response from 800 Hz to 5 kHz, the dome behaves as a true point source across the critical vocal and instrument band, delivering superior imaging and coherence compared to cone midrange drivers. This technology trickles down from Wharfedale's research into ideal transducer geometries.
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