REVIEW – Airpulse A300 Active Speakers
At a penny shy of £1000 the Airpulse A300 are an active loudspeaker with onboard amps and DAC. Alan McIntosh puts them through their paces.
“My first real close up listening introduction to active speakers was in my home studio some 10 years ago with my KRK studio monitors and my experience was that while you get to take a traditional amplifier out of the chain, actives have a definite signature sound, so when I was offered the chance to review the Airpulse A300’s I was keen to see how things had moved on and what an up-to-date fully class D intergraded Hi–Resactive speaker could deliver, especially one carrying a badge saying they had the signature sound of renowned studio engineer and monitor designer Phil Jones…”
