The last speaker we sold from Cyrus was the stunning CLS70, which, if it was still produced today, would undoubtedly command a £2,000 price tag. Thankfully the company's latest offering is a little easier on the wallet, with an SRP of just £349 per pair, making it far more applicable to a much wider customer base.

The Cyrus ONElinear is a brand new, premium loudspeaker, which, whilst designed to perfectly match the company's Cyrus ONE amplifier, provides exemplary performance in a whole host of different systems. It has been engineered to exhibit a classically 'British' linear frequency response curve, the objective being to achieve complete neutrality, thus allowing the full character of the music to be revealed.

The ONElinear bass/mid driver uses a double-wound copper-coated aluminum voice-coil. As well as being light, this produces a stronger induced magnetic field and hence ‘grip’ over hard to control bass frequencies. The voice coil is bonded to a carefully profiled KEVLAR cone material. This material is light and responsive, carrying limited inertia and retaining its shape and hence audio characteristic even when pushed hard. The speed and accuracy of the resulting bass response is remarkable for a speaker of the size.

The tweeter is a textile soft-dome, capable of meaningful response well beyond the limits of human hearing. Refined and balanced, the high-frequencies are never ‘aggressive’ or harsh, yet retain the full detail of the source recording.

The crossover uses high quality electrolytic capacitors to maintain the signal integrity and a smooth phase response through the transition from bass driver to tweeter. This again contributes to the even response.

The cabinet has been developed using advanced computer modelling with ‘Delayed Cumulative Spectral Analysis’ to reduce the contribution of cabinet noise to levels more than 35dB below the driver output. The same computer modelling is also used to fine tune the crossover to ensure a consistent performance, even when listening ‘off-axis’.

The ONElinear is rear-ported and designed to be positioned between 10-30cm from a rear wall. This will optimize the bass response and mid-range clarity, although some experimentation with position is advised as this will be room-dependent.