Many things require solid foundations to function – houses, marriages and cheesecakes to name but three.

With many of its recent speakers inspired by the successful budget Diamond 200 Series, you can add Wharfedale’s speaker engineering to that list too.

The 200s were the starting point for the mid-ranging Reva range, last year’s Award-winning DS-1 speakers, and now they form the basis of another two closely-related powered speakers: the A2 floorstanders and the A1 standmounts.