EgglestonWorks Emma Evo £7,900 Review

So where the Nico Evo exemplified the best in a smallish, standmounting loudspeaker – coherence, speed, imaging, invisibility – the Emma Evo takes those qualities and adds scale, weight and another layer of colour and texture. You still get all the pace, coherence and clarity, the limpid, lucid vision into the heart of the music, but you also get a bit more of that heart. It’s pretty clear that if there’s a ‘house sound,’ both the Emma and the Nico Evos conform to it. The Emma Evo isn’t a large loudspeaker, though neither is it small, but because of the sheer levels of insight and detail there’s no real sense that you’re being short-changed on large-scale performances, and small-scale stuff just invites you right in to share in the intimate, immersive music-making experience. They respond to a little tweaking, and they’ll reward quality in the upstream elements of your system, they’re just so very communicative of what’s going on. They are proof that in moving from stand-mount to floorstander you don’t have to compromise on the strengths of a superlative small loudspeaker, you can just add other qualities on top if you do it right.