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Wharfedale Aston Limited Edition Bookshelf Speakers With Stands (Pair)Wharfedale Aston Limited Edition Bookshelf Speakers With Stands An Heirloom of British Hi Fi Made in Britain Drawing on Gilbert Briggss founding vision from 1932 that loudspeakers should convey the thrill and emotion of a live performance the Aston is the ultimate expression of Wharfedales nine decade legacy. Meticulously designed, engineered, and handcrafted in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, each pair is engraved with a unique serial number. This
Wharfedale Aston Limited Edition Bookshelf Speakers With Stands
An Heirloom of British Hi-Fi – Made in Britain
Drawing on Gilbert Briggs’s founding vision from 1932 - that loudspeakers should convey the thrill and emotion of a live performance - the Aston is the ultimate expression of Wharfedale’s nine-decade legacy. Meticulously designed, engineered, and handcrafted in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, each pair is engraved with a unique serial number. This strictly limited run of 500 pairs ensures that owning an Aston is as rare as it is rewarding.
From its vintage-inspired wood-veneered cabinet to the modern standard of finish and precision craftsmanship, the Aston balances heritage styling with cutting-edge performance. Every surface, from the inset grille trim to the hand-matched veneer, is chosen to reflect the standards that have made Wharfedale Britain’s most famous loudspeakers. Its timeless aesthetic conceals a speaker that is thoroughly contemporary in capability.
Innovative Transducer Design
At the heart of the Aston lies a brand-new 150 mm (5.9 in) carbon-fibre bass/midrange driver housed in a rigid cast chassis, coupled with a profiled phase plug to deliver super-smooth upper mids and uncoloured dynamics. The 25 mm (1 in) soft-dome tweeter features a rear-chamber damping system that pushes its resonant frequency far below the crossover, revealing every nuance of detail without harshness. These bespoke drive units, born from decades of award-winning transducer research, offer the perfect union of strength, speed, and precision.
Precision Crossover & Acoustic Engineering
The Aston’s carefully tuned crossover network employs air-core inductors and high-spec polypropylene capacitors, refined through thousands of hours of listening tests across all genres. This level-matching and slope tailoring ensure a seamless hand-off between drivers, presenting music exactly as the artist intended. The multi-layer cabinet, engineered through complex modelling and resonance-control testing, works in tandem with dual rear ports to extend clean bass down to below 50 Hz- astonishing for such a compact stand-mount design.
Custom-Engineered Stands
Every pair of Astons ships with a bespoke stand crafted from hardened high-carbon British steel and tempered-glass inserts. Conceived alongside the speaker, the open-frame design offers torsional rigidity, optimal height positioning, and controlled bass-floor interaction. Finished to match the furniture-grade cabinets and supplied with stainless-steel spike seats and handcrafted gloves, these stands transform listening into a ceremonial ritual.
An Invitation to Rarity
With only 500 pairs ever produced and every component Made in Britain, each Aston speaker is a testament to Wharfedale’s unwavering commitment to musical authenticity. Once these serial-numbered editions are gone, they will not return. Experience the full impact, thrill, and emotion of live performance, authentically, and exclusively with the limited-edition Aston.
Specifications
| Speaker Type: | 2-way vented-box / standmount |
| Enclosure type: | Bass reflex |
| Transducer complement: | 2-way |
| Bass driver: | 5.91" black Carbon Fibre cone |
| Treble driver: | 0.98" soft dome |
| AV shield: | No |
| Sensitivity (2.83 V @ 1 m): | 86 dB |
| Recommended amplifier power: | 25 – 100 W |
| Peak SPL: | 95 dB |
| Nominal impedance: | 4 Ω |
| Minimum impedance: | 3.9 Ω |
| Frequency response (±3 dB): | 55 Hz – 20 kHz |
| Bass extension (–6 dB): | 44 Hz |
| Crossover frequency: | 2.3 kHz |
| Cabinet volume: | 10.8 L |
| Dimensions (H × W × D): | 13.39" × 7.87" × 10.04" |
| Net weight (speakers): | 35.27 lbs. |
| Net weight (speakers & stands): | 66.14 lbs. |
| Gross weight (speakers): | 40.79 lbs. |
| Gross weight (speakers & stands): | 76.06 lbs. |
| Stand height: | 22.05" |
| Stand width: | 10.43" |
| Stand depth: | 10.04" |
| Stand net weight: | 30.86 lbs. |
| Stand gross weight: | 35.27 lbs. |
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Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2014
★★★★★ 5
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Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2024
★★★★★ 5
A huge book that gives you the hero's beginnings.
Format: Hardcover
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2009
★★★★★ 5
A bloody walk down memory lane.
Format: Hardcover
This massive volume collects all of Wolverine's earliest stories from his very violent history. Instead of being collected chronologically in order of first appearance, this book tells Logan's painful story as it happened to him. Beginning with Marvel Comics Presents #1-10; we see the excruciating process that turned him into Weapon X. After that, it's his first appearance in Incredible Hulk #180-182. That's followed up by the classic 4-issue Chris Claremont/ Frank Miller miniseries, and X-Men #172-173. We also Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #1-6, Captain America annual 8, Spider-Man vs. Wolverine, Punisher War Journal 6-7 and Wolverine #1-10, amongst others. This book is currently out of print, so good luck finding a copy. If you track one down, expect to pay a pretty penny for it, as I did. As a Wolverine fan, however, this is a must-have collection
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Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2015
★★★★★ 5
Excellent book
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