![]() ![]() Royd was the brainchild of Joe Akroyd, a gentle soul who made some great-sounding, often small, boundry loudspeakers more by listening and principle than mathematics and measurement. Perhaps the biggest and at once the smallest launch at the show was the rebirth of Royd Audio. A new breed of company (and, sometimes, old companies reborn) is emerging to rekindle interest in these Flat Earth concepts, and the old crowd are loving it! They just had to focus their attention on older products, eschewing newer products from the anointed brands because they were not quite minimalist enough. ![]() Over the years, the attitude mellowed a lot, the brands that came to represent this Flat Earth moved away from its core values in search of new markets… but the traditional ‘Flat Earth’ buyer stayed true to the cause. To recap for those who weren’t there at the time, the Flat Earth school was (the first time) dominated by brands such as Linn and Naim, which had a common goal of small, relatively inexpensive, minimalist products, coupled with boundary loudspeakers… and a lot of attitude. This year, we might just be seeing the start of a rebirth of the Flat Earth properties that were once so extremely popular with UK audio buyers in the 1980s. The scale of the UK’s National Audio Show does allow the emergence of small trends that might otherwise pass unnoticed. ![]()
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