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It has seven legs six of which can be filled with your choice of sand, audiophile gravel or other suitable damping material. The matching stand is well worth the extra outlay as the pair look superb together. As a result, the heavyweight and remarkably solid cabinet passes the time-honoured knuckle-rap test with aplomb.

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In addition, the internal baffle to which the second bass driver is mounted acts as a further brace. To control resonances, the cabinet is constructed from high-density fibre board that varies in thickness, and constrained layer damping is also a feature of the side panels.

Mating the two units is a typically minimalist Kudos crossover featuring low order slopes.

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In addition, the mid/bass driver is a design specific to Kudos, and features copper shorting rings on the pole piece for lower distortion, plus the distinctive aluminium phase plug with engraved logo. The tweeter is referred to as a SEAS-Kudos K3 type, and is based on the well-known Crescendo K2 driver but with some additional modifications by Gilligan. Treble is handled by a 29mm soft-dome tweeter made, like the bass drivers, by Norwegian specialist SEAS. A rear bass port is incorporated into the bottom panel. This is identical to the main 180mm driver, featuring a doubly coated paper cone, and is mounted back to back and wired out of phase in an isobaric configuration. On the face of it, the 505 appears to be a relatively conventional two-way design, but a third drive unit lurks inside. Standard finishes are tineo, red tineo, walnut, satin white or black oak, with gloss black or gloss white lacquer finishes commanding an extra £700 premium. This impressively chunky yet sleek design retails for £7,000 per pair in its standard finish or for £7,750 complete with matching stands, which can also be bought separately for £1,000. Smaller models duly followed to develop a range and the new baby of the bunch is the Titan 505 standmount you see before you.

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The successful and well-liked Cardea speaker series put Kudos on the map, but Gilligan flexed his design muscles properly in 2015 with the launch of the Titan 808 flagship. The company acquired the Kudos brand in 1989 – at the time it was a support stand manufacturer – but when Gilligan decided to branch out on his own in 2006, he took the name with him. When he’d had enough of travelling, he turned his eye to domestic speakers and co-founded another British success story, Neat Acoustics, with Bob Surgeoner.

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With a background in professional PA systems, Gilligan originally worked with his brother and the two gained something of a reputation for obtaining superb sonic results in the most acoustically challenging venues. Kudos Audio is still something of a whippersnapper to the loudspeaker market in relative terms and the County Durham-based company is headed up by Derek Gilligan. In hi-fi terms, one of the most enduring industries is that of loudspeaker production and while the ‘big boys’ may have many of their bread and butter models built in China, flagship designs are often assembled by hand here in the UK. This list is far from comprehensive, but will hopefully serve as a starting point for you to examine your own language.With plenty of audio brands looking to the Far East for their production, it’s easy to forget that the UK has some very sturdy manufacturing strings to its bow. As long as we’re reevaluating racist American foundations, our language shouldn’t escape direct scrutiny. Plenty of other everyday words and phrases have had their racist origins obscured by time. This column has previously examined the deeply racist connotation of the word thug, and yet Donald Trump wasn’t the least bit bashful in his all-caps proclamation that Minneapolis protesters were “THUGS” (in a tweet that Twitter soon hid because it violated the company’s rules against glorifying violence).īut that’s just the beginning. As people march and protest across the country, including in Philadelphia, racism in all forms, including language, is the subject of a long-overdue conversation. The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police has raised our national consciousness about the racist systems that our country was built upon.

The good news? We’re all paying more attention to this, including the Angry Grammarian. Let’s start with the bad news: Racism is embedded in almost every institution in America, and language is no exception. Editor’s note: Please be aware offensive terms are repeated here solely for the purpose of identifying and unpacking them honestly.