Reddit mentions of Wharfedale - Diamond 220 (Black)

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Award-Winning Performance, Wide-Open SoundOne-Inch Soft-Dome Tweeter and 5.1” Kevlar WooferLayered Cabinet Construction and High-Quality FinishFrequency Response: 45Hz - 24kHz -- 12.4” H x 6.9” W x 9.8” D (11.7 lbs.)Available in Black, Walnut, Rosewood, and White - Sold in Pairs

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Color	Black
Height	12.598425 Inches
Length	6.692913 Inches
Weight	23.368999772 Pounds
Width	6.850394 Inches

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Found 13 comments on Wharfedale - Diamond 220 (Black):

u/polypeptide147 · 11 points r/BudgetAudiophile

I wouldn't use that if someone gave it to me for free. For $500? Yeah it was a steal, but they stole the money from you.

There are loads of better options at that price. Even lower.

Fluance AI60.

AudioEngine A5+.

Kanto YU6.

Or you could get a receiver and some passive speakers.

Receiver.

HSU HB-1 MK2.

Ascend Acoustics CBM-170.

Elac Debut B6.2.

Klipsch R-51M.

Klipsch R-610F.

Wharfedale Diamond 220.

That's not a complete list, but definitely a good place to start. Any of these options will be better than the soundbar.

u/sharkamino · 5 points r/BudgetAudiophile

What is your budget? USA? Do you have or will be adding a subwoofer? What are you powering them with? Would you consider floor standing instead of bookshelf on speaker stands?

5.25" ELAC $249? Wait and see if the 6.5" Debut 2.0 B6.2 go on sale again for $150 on BF through the new year like they did last year. $100 less than the current price of the B5.2.
6.5" CA SX60 at $299? Seem to get average reviews. The better CA's are the AeroMax but they are twice the price.
6.5" Diamond 10.2 get decent reviews and are ok for $225. Check out the newer versions on sale.

Alternatives:
6.5" Ascend CBM-170SE $299 + shipping. Neutral sound with a liner frequency response. My speaker of choice for music. Compare to $500 speakers since manufacturer direct model cuts out the retail middleman.
6.5" Infinity Reference R162 $175, originally MSRP $449.
Klipsch on sale: 5.25" RP-150M (Cherry) $289 or 6.5" RP-160M (Ebony) $349.
Newer Whafedale Diamond Sale: Diamond 220 are $249 or the Diamond 225 are $350.
Beautiful 5.25" Wharfedale Reva 2 50% off $499.
5.25" KEF Q150 ~~$549.99~~ $349.99
6.5" FOCAL Chorus 706 ~~$749.00~~ $399.99
6" CANTON Chrono 502.2 ~~$949.99~~ $349.99
5.25" Wavecrest Audio HVL-1, and order on sale at Ascend $80 each + shipping, "budget/baby Ascends" from the same speaker designer. Neutral sound with a linear frequency response. To me, better comparable to and better mids than the KEF Q100s.
Boston sale: 5.25" BOSTON ACOUSTICS A25 $150 bogo pair or 6.5" BOSTON ACOUSTICS A26 $195 pair.
Closeout deal: 6.5" DCM TP160 by MTX Audio speakers $79 pair. Review by u/DieselWang and new Video Review. Or the tower version DCM TP260 2-Way by MTX Audio ~~$399~~ $129 and you don't need to buy or build speaker stands.

u/LouisJenkin · 5 points r/BudgetAudiophile

So looking at this I assume your total Budget is about £300. If I were you, I'd recommend trying to up that budget just a little bit, to maybe £350. It'll open up another realm of possibilities. In the £350 budget, I'll always recommend a Yamaha A-S301, as it is arguably one of the best amps in the price range. If you're really settled on either the Onkyo or the Marantz, I would easily recommend the Marantz. In my experience with those two amps, the Marantz has a slightly richer sound. I'll admit I listened to the Marantz PM6005 not the PM5005, however tonally there is no difference between the two, just a difference in power supply.

There is always however the choice of buying second hand. This is an excellent way to get higher quality equipment at a lower price. This takes me nicely to my recommendation for speakers. Really, with very little contest in the price range, the Cambridge Audio S-30's reign supreme, at least in my opinion and many others. The problem is they're discontinued, so you'll have to find them on eBay. If you really want to settle for brand new speakers though, those Polk speakers look alright. I've never heard them myself, but the reviews look good, and the massive sale right now would suggest they'd be a good grab. Other possibilities you might not have considered are the Wharfedale Diamond 220's in Black or in Rosewood. These are excellent for the price, and they look really nice too! The Dali Zensor 1's are often recommended, though I've never listened to them myself, I've heard some excellent things. My final recommendation for speakers are of course the Q Acoustics 2020i. They are remarkably good for the price, and aren't too fussy about power supplying. All of the speakers I've mentioned thus far however will be able to be powered by the Yamaha A-S301.

Those are about all the recommendations I can think of, but if you're really settled on your current speakers and between those two amps, I'd say get the Marantz.

If you have any questions just send me a reply :-)

u/BeardedAlbatross · 3 points r/BudgetAudiophile

What you can expect for x budget really depends on who you ask. I'd say for 500€ you can get a very respectable system given that you're sticking to digital and don't expect a sub that'll dig down to 20hz. BTW you can't really put together a diagram until you know exactly what components you're getting. Your diagram doesn't work for this reason. You have a DAC there but that receiver already has a DAC built in so it may be redundant. The speakers shown there also wouldn't work since they are self-powered and thus don't need an amplifier.

My knowledge and experience with European pricing is pretty limited, and almost completely exclusive to two channel setups there. Here is a realistic example of a well-rounded system with my limited knowledge of what you can get over there (AKA I wandered around the German Amazon site):

Pioneer VSX-330 at 220€

A pair of Wharfedale Diamond 220 speakers at 250€.

Some speaker wire for 15€.

Adding 300€ to your budget would benefit you sure. You can go for a better receiver maybe with better room correction and probably add a decent subwoofer. You're living in an apartment and mostly listening to metal though, so I'd say maybe a pair of tower speakers or very large bookshelf speakers would be a better direction with the extra money.

u/applevinegar · 3 points r/audiophile

Don't buy those speakers. They're absolutely terrible for the price.

If you'd like active monitors (which is a perfectly good alternative) I suggest getting a pair of Emotiva Airmotiv 6s if you're in the US.

Otherwise you'll need a receiver. In that case, if you're positive you'll be adding a subwoofer, you have two alternatives: either a multichannel amp (even if you're going to use it in stereo) that has bass management such as this or a stereo receiver like this to which you'll add an active crossover (or possibly a miniDSP) when you do get the sub.
In the first case scenario you'll have enough to for a pair of Emotiva B1s, Elac B6 or Wharfedale Diamond 220s. If you go for the Onkyo for now, you'll have a higher budget for the speakers allowing you to reach for a pair of KEF Q100s or DALI Zensor 3.

And don't buy a turntable if you don't already have a collection. Forcibly "getting LP records" is a silly hipster thing. It's an outdated medium with a multitude of inherent flaws.

u/ALEXJ1993 · 1 point r/vinyl

Thanks for your help! Would any amplifier work with this? as that amp is around £550 which is out of my price range.

Would something such as http://www.richersounds.com/product/amplifiers-receivers/onkyo/a9010/onkyo-a-9010-blk suffice

along with https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00OHIZQ50/ref=pd_sim_23_8?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=4P10HVBB72NBA3EB06ZP

And the pre amp recommended on the complimentary components?

u/awesomejim123 · 1 point r/audiophile

I own absolutely no audio equipment whatsoever- I use my laptop speakers and default apple headphones, but I've been using my friend's setup to listen to a lot of music lately and I want to make my own. Is this everything I need?

Onkyo A-9010 Integrated Stereo Amplifier

Wharfedale - Diamond 220

Speaker wire with banana plugs

3.5mm to RCA cable

Do I need a preamp? The amplifier I've chosen has a built in phono-pre, is that the same as a preamp? Is there anything I'm missing? As far as I can tell, the speakers plug into the amplifier and don't have their own power source, is this correct? Do they get power through the speaker wire? Is there a cable I'm missing for the power?

u/iamakasmalls · 1 point r/hometheater

Klipsch speakers have a very distinct sound, specifically in the way they reproduce high pitched sounds. Some people love that some people don't. (Edit: it also appears that these are a budget series of Klipsch, I've never heard them so I can't attest to their quality)

It also depends on your music source whether or not you'll enjoy them. I am personally a big fan of the Wharfedale Diamond 220 series for their price.

Edit: Just saw you were looking for towers, unfortunately I don't know what the better budget towers would be.

u/dsmdylan · 1 point r/Televisions

I'd try for something like this:

Bookshelf speakers - Wharfedale Diamond 220
Stands - Sanus NF24
Subwoofer - BIC F12
AVR - Yamaha RX-V379

u/DoTheEvolution · 1 point r/BudgetAudiophile

Dont think miccas would be any upgrade on what you have there.

Would recommend saving more before going shopping for new, it makes zero sense that you got 100€ speakers and now feel like upgrading by upping the budget by 50€ from the last time?

Isnt that like price of 4 beers and a pack of smokes in germany?

As always people say... maybe try looking around for some used stuff on whatever is the equivalent of craiglist in germany.

But I really hate comments like the one I wrote, they are so generic even though right that used stuff offers so much more value.

So, if I am reading right you would be willing to go 100€ amp and 150€ speakers.

That puts you close to the very popular active JBL lsr 305 that go for 150€ per speaker on german amazon.

Or get a small handy amp like smls sa-60 for 80€ or up one with build in DAC for 110€ - FXAudio D802

and then passives lets say wharfedale diamond 210 or upping it to diamond 220.

u/Skitch_n_Sketch · 1 point r/audiophile

LSR305's would be the default suggestion, but it'd already be stretching your budget. Plus I can't find a European site that sells them without marking them up even more. The best option I can find for you is the Wharfedale Diamond 220 paired with a SMSL SA-50. If you could verify that the prices aren't wildly out of budget that'd be great, not sure how accurate my side is.

Here's a review I pulled from a forum if you're interested.

>The bass that is present is quite clean but the lower mids can seem a bit muddy at times. But a good plus on the bass is the down firing port makes it very easy to place these in a room and the extension is nice, not as good as the SuperOne’s but very close.

>The imaging and soundstage on these are wonderful and there’s also a bit of treble roll off and tilt towards the bass.

>What I noticed about both Wharfedales is they have a bit of a thicker sound than the rest of the speakers, not sure exactly how to explain it but they carry a bit of weight/body to their sound that most other speakers don’t have and just about all of the other speakers sound thing when quickly A/B’ing them except for the Elac B6’s.

>These sound a bit warm.

Pros:

Quality mid-bass kick
Down firing bass makes these easy to place

Cons:
The lower mids get a bit muddy
Can get a bit hot at times on snares and female vocals

u/doomdirk · 1 point r/ZReviews

You could look at Wharfedale's diamond series speakers (220 or 225) to stick with the brand. Alternatives I also enjoy are Q acoustics 3020 or concept 20, Dali Zensor, Sonus Faber Principia 1. I would always recommend listening to a couple of different speakers before actually settling on a specific set though, maybe your tastes are completely different from mine. If there are no dealers near you, you could always try to select your top 3 in your price bracket, order all of them and send 2 pairs back ;).

As far as cheap amps go, I only tested a SMSL SA-60 which seemed a little weak with some bigger speakers (could've been a bad unit since I've heard so many good things about those little amps, who knows) and upgraded that to a Pro-ject Stereo Box S. I actually like the Pro-ject amp for small setups. (comes with a tiny remote and has 2 sets of RCA inputs). I found that I didn't need anything else with bookshelf speakers up to around 1.200€ after testing a couple of full size amps that were supposed to be "so much better".

Good Luck

u/SmittyJonz · 1 point r/BudgetAudiophile

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