Polk Signature Elite ES20

RRP $849

The easiest way into great sound

The Polk Signature Elite ES20 is the speaker we recommend most often to people stepping into hi-fi for the first time — and with good reason. It's warm, easy to drive, and sounds genuinely engaging with almost any amplifier you pair it with. There's no fussiness here, no demanding impedance, no special placement requirements. It rewards a good amplifier, but it's forgiving enough to work brilliantly with a modest one.

Choose the Polk ES20 if you're stepping up from a soundbar or Bluetooth speaker and want real hi-fi sound without a steep learning curve.

Eversolo SE100

RRP $849

A modern design statement for compact hi-fi

Eversolo's first passive loudspeaker was built from the ground up to partner with the Eversolo Play streaming series — but it works beautifully in any well-matched compact system. The defining feature is the unique 1:1 square cabinet, which fits perfectly inside an IKEA KALLAX unit and makes the SE100 genuinely different from every other bookshelf speaker on the market. It's the rare hi-fi product that makes you stop and look before you even press play.

Choose the Eversolo SE100 if aesthetics are as important to you as sound quality, and you want a speaker that feels considered rather than incidental.

Scansonic L7

RRP $999

Danish engineering. Serious bass. Surprising value.

The Scansonic L7 is the largest speaker in Scansonic's L Series, and it shows. Where most bookshelf speakers at this price struggle to fill a real room, the L7's 6.5" paper-sandwich woofer delivers genuine bass weight and authority. It's built on the same acoustic philosophy as the acclaimed Raidho brand, bringing Danish hi-fi engineering principles to a price point that makes them genuinely accessible.

Choose the Scansonic L7 if you want a bookshelf speaker that can genuinely fill a room with sound — not just perform well in a quiet corner.

Krix Equinox Evara

From RRP $1,345

Australian-made. Audiophile performance.

Krix has been designing and building loudspeakers in Adelaide, South Australia for decades. The Equinox Evara is made to order in their Adelaide workshop — every pair assembled by hand, with each component chosen for its contribution to the final sound. The result is a speaker with exceptional clarity, dynamic expression, and a naturalness to voices and instruments that mass-produced speakers rarely achieve at this price.

Choose the Krix Equinox Evara if you want a speaker with genuine audiophile credentials that is proudly Australian-made, and you're happy to wait a little for something built specifically for you.

Polk Reserve R200

RRP $1,299

Where Polk gets serious

The Polk Reserve R200 is a different proposition to the Signature Elite ES20. Where the ES20 is warm and forgiving, the R200 is more revealing and precise — designed for listeners who want to hear deeper into their recordings. Instruments are better separated, the soundstage is wider and more dimensional, and the proprietary X-Port bass technology extracts more low-end control from a compact cabinet than you'd expect.

Choose the Polk Reserve R200 if you want to hear more of what's actually in your music — more detail, more space between instruments, more engagement with every listen.

Scansonic HD M15.2

RRP $1,999

Step up to something that reveals more

The Scansonic HD M15.2 sits in a different league to the L Series. The M Series uses low mass drive units developed from Raidho's approach to speaker design — a Danish brand that competes at many times this price — to achieve a level of transparency, speed and resolution that genuinely surprises at this price point. If you've heard good speakers before and felt something was missing, the M15.2 is likely to be the answer.

Choose the Scansonic HD M15.2 if you want to hear your music with greater clarity and resolution, and you're ready to invest in a speaker that rewards a quality amplifier.

Falcon Acoustics LS3/5A

From RRP $4,999

The legendary BBC monitor — reborn

Few speakers in history carry the weight of the LS3/5A. Originally developed for BBC outside broadcast vans in the 1970s, it became one of the most critically acclaimed monitoring speakers ever made — used by engineers who needed to hear exactly what was on the recording, nothing added, nothing softened. Falcon Acoustics is widely regarded as one of the world's most respected custodians of this design, building each pair with obsessive fidelity to the original specification.

This is not a speaker for background listening. It's a speaker for sitting down, pressing play, and hearing your music the way the people who made it intended.

Choose the Falcon Acoustics LS3/5A if you want to own a piece of audio history — a speaker that every serious listener should hear at least once, and that many never want to replace.