Triangle LN01A Limited Edition Bluetooth Speaker Wireless Bookshelf (Pair)

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Of course, powered speakers such as the Elaras aren’t just for the young. While they’ll work beautifully in a college dorm or a teenager’s bedroom, they’ll serve grown-up music-lovers equally well as a secondary system for a home office or den.

What’s missing in comparison to larger speakers is musical weight. Small woofers can only move so much air in a room. And it’s churlish to expect more than you get. While the soundstage wasn’t especially deep, it was wide and open, convincingly evoking La Philharmonie de Paris, where this performance was recorded in November 2019. Dynamics scaled with impressive ease for a small, two-way, 50Wpc powered speaker. However, the loudest sections sounded slightly congested; and when I cranked up the volume, a little hardness crept in during loud passages. Otherwise, the little powered Triangles were beautifully transparent, conveying all the magic of this magical score. Triangle AIO TWIN Speakers is the latest system from Triangle Electroacoustique, the French specialist for loudspeaker systems. The fact that this is once again a compact, versatile active loudspeaker system shows that the French are consistently trying to expand their target group.

With Les Siècles’ performance of Ravel’s La Valse, the Fives sounded bigger and more powerful than the Triangles, but slightly less refined. The Klipsches reproduced the bass drum and timpani with greater impact, but sounded a little thuddier. Nor did double basses and cellos have the same growly, breathy quality through the Klipsches -- they were a bit muddier. Violin string tone wasn’t quite as sweet. While the Klipsches created a slightly deeper soundstage, orchestral textures weren’t as transparent -- everything was a bit more homogenized. The Fives could play a bit louder than the Elara LN01As without sounding hard. A quality loudspeaker for just € 390? Lionel Payne, in his first review for Hifi Pig, takes a listen to the Triangle Elara LN01 Loudspeakers

Next up was Glenn Gould’s 1981 recording of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations (LP, CBS Masterworks IM37770). Again, piano tone in the lower octaves was a little muddy, but the middle and upper registers sounded lovely -- natural and extended, but not hyperdetailed, so that Gould’s crisp trills and runs were really well articulated. What most impressed me was how the little Triangles handled sudden dynamic shifts. For example, after the serene opening Aria, Variation 1 explodes with joy and abandon. The Elara LN01As did full justice to this moment. Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie.

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Each rear-ported cabinet measures 11.5”H x 6.5”W x 9.25”D. The two-way LN01A has a 5.1” midrange-woofer with a treated-paper cone, crossed over at 1.8kHz to a 1” silk-dome tweeter. The specified frequency response is 56Hz-22kHz, ±3dB. The speakers are supplied with magnetically attached cloth grilles, at the bottom of each grille a large Triangle logo.