Wharfedale offers dedicated floor stands for use with the Diamond speakers. The speaker is 11.75 inches high, 7.5 inches wide, 10.75 inches deep, and it has threaded inserts on its backside to facilitate wall-mounting. Details like the polished trim rings surrounding the 1-inch silk dome tweeter and 5-inch woven Kevlar woofer add a bit of bling to the handsome design. Its deeply curved sides look cool and the heavily braced cabinet feels extremely well put together. The Diamond 10.1 is a medium-size "bookshelf" speaker. Its 1.5 million square foot factory is in Shenzhen, China, but design and engineering come from the U.K., where there is a 50-person research and development team.
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Even the bolts that attach the drivers to the cabinets are made by Wharfedale. Wharfedale not only designs and builds all of its own woofers and tweeters in-house, it also designs and manufactures nearly every part of its speakers, including the crossover networks' resistors and capacitors. The entry-level Diamond Series speakers debuted some 49 years later the Diamond 10.1 we're reviewing today is from the latest incarnation of the line. Wharfedale started making loudspeakers in 1932, which makes it the second-oldest still-surviving speaker manufacturer in the world ( Tannoy is the oldest). The Wharfedale Diamond 10.1 is easily the best speaker I've heard for $350 per pair.