French fancy

The Capella is the latest member of Triangle’s self-contained systems. Ed Selley sees how it stacks up

After decades of being a technically respected but somewhat niche solution, active speakers are suddenly becoming very big business. By combining them with streaming and a decent smattering of inputs, speaker manufacturers have spotted a way to use existing engineering and make sales at the expense of electronics manufacturers. And when times are tight, all is fair in love and war. Triangle has been dabbling in this field with powered versions of its Borea range of speakers, and very good they are too. For the move upmarket, though, the company has changed to a true active platform where the crossover is line-level and in front of the amplification. The Capella takes parts from the Esprit range of passive speakers, but is not a straight conversion of any specific model from…

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Hi-Fi Choice (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2024

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