- Increased cabinet volumes and reduced massive resonance
- New county high frequency unit and improved bass and midrange drivers
- From £ 549 (approximately $ 730 / AU $ 1,125)
Wharfedale has significantly upgraded its best-selling EVO speaker area, and the new fifth generation of the EVO 5 speakers comes with a visual update and very important audio upgrades.
There are five models in the area: Two Standmount speakers (EVO 5.1 and 5.2), two floor stands (Evo 5.3 and 5.4) and a home theater speaker (EVO 5.C). They are beautiful things and come in new color settings, but what has happened inside is what really matters here.
Wharfedale Evos already went head to head with speakers who cost significantly more money, and these fifth gene versions promise to sound even better.
Wharfedale Evo 5 Speakers: Key Functions and Pricing
The first upgrade is for Air Motion Transformer (County) that Wharfedale uses instead of dome -tweeters: It is a pleated membrane that seems to push four times more air than comparable traditional tweeters that deliver lower distortion and faster transient response. Wharfedale says it also produces a wider frequency range and excellent horizontal spread.
The EVO 5 version is greater than before – 35x70mm compared to 30x60mm in EVO 4 – and delivers improved efficiency and spread. Behind it, there is the new Silentweave damping, which will reduce sound wave fleets inside the speaker.
There is more where Silentweave came from: Resoframe and Resoseal, also new for Evo 5, is a new acoustic damping frame and damping ring and aiming to help the drives deliver a smoother answer.
The middle class is redesigned to the fifth generation with the aforementioned resoframe and Silentweave. And the bass drivers use the advanced low distortion motor system, first seen in the flagship Elysian models. It is merged with a woven Kevlar cone of 130 mm or 150 mm depending on the speaker model and a low-pitched rubber-round-up to a naturally sounding lower midrange and tight bass.
Crossovers have also been redesigned and benefits from a redesigned circuit card that delivers a shorter path length between the components and drivers. In the three-way models, it is divided into separate PCBs for the middle/treble and for bass to reduce electromagnetic interference.
Bass Reflex Design comes from Wharfedales more Premium Aura and Elysian Ranges, with a slot at the bottom of the speaker rather than a more conventional front or rear firing. Where Evo 4 vented in two directions, over the EVO 5 wait in three, as Wharfedale says, optimizes the air flow distribution for deep, articulated and well -integrated bass. The design also makes the speakers “less fussy” about location than conventionally ported design.
The cabinets are larger than their EVO 4 colleagues and are made of a sandwich with different density forests to reduce panel resonance to inaudible levels and reduce the leakage of unwanted sound energy. And at the bottom there is a hybrid metal/wood plinth for stiffness and insulation.
The walnut wood setting is worn opposite EVO 4, but the black and white are now super-smoothly high-quality matte, and there is a new Matt option called Lunar Gray.
The EVO 5 speakers will be available from June 2025. The prices are:
- Evo 5.1: £ 549 per Couple
- Evo 5.2: £ 749 per Couple
- Evo 5.3: £ 1099 per Couple
- Evo 5.4: £ 1399 pr. Couple
- EVO 5.C: £ 549
