Who'd have thought that Estonia had a 25-year-old high-end audio business?' mused The Editor. We both felt a little bit foolish, maybe even politically incorrect for underestimating Estonia, as we've been photographing Estelon's flagship XAs or XA Diamond speakers at hi-fi shows since the late-Noughties, just because they're so pretty. Although we live in an era when it seems as if there are no restrictions on cabinet shape - think of Vivid, KEF's Blade, most Wilsons - the Estelons deftly bridge the gap between radically bizarre and domestically acceptable. The enclosure shape and construction are the main contributions the XA, XA Diamond, XB and XC have made to speaker evolution, as the drivers are made for Estelon by an outside supplier.
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