With speaker designs becoming ever more esoteric, there is a comforting familiarity about two-way standmounts. A compact cabinet, a simple crossover, a tweeter, a woofer and that's about your lot. Or is it? At the rear, the £3000 Manger Audio Zerobox 109 appears to be more or less following the script, with bi-wirable terminals and a manageable, if not exactly compact, cabinet. However, when you get to the baffle, things start to look a little less familiar. Okay, a 200mm cone is hardly tearing up the rulebook, but the fact that the higher frequency unit is flat, star-shaped and marginally the larger of the two drivers gives the Zerobox speakers a unique appearance.
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