GoldenEar Triton One.R
Hi-Fi News|November 2019
Breathed on with the spirit of the company’s flagship model, these speakers are nothing less than spectacular.
Andrew Everard
GoldenEar Triton One.R

From the sheer performance and value of the flagship Triton Reference [HFN Jun ’19], down to the bargain that is the Triton Five [HFN Mar ’19], we’ve been very much taken with the sound of the GoldenEar range. And this despite the ‘but it shouldn’t work’ cost-effective engineering employed by the company, including its liberal use of plastics in the cabinets’ construction.

So, bringing us bang up to date, this is the third pair of Tritons to grace our listening room. The £6600 Triton One.R takes the design of the junior models in the company’s range, notably the £5750 ‘standard’ Triton One, and breathes on it the pixie dust of the flagship reference. Hence the One.R has an active (1600W Class D) subwoofer built into each speaker, complete with three dedicated sub-bass drivers and a quartet of side-firing auxiliary bass radiators. The speaker can either be used with conventional loudspeaker cables, in which case the internal crossover will split the signal between the passive main section and the active bass or, as would be the case with an AV receiver, with a line-level signal to the dedicated LFE RCA input.

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In the latter mode, you’ll need to use the receiver’s sub filtering to split up the signal, setting the receiver so that it passes bass frequencies to its LFE output. However, you should still leave the main front/left speaker output set to ‘large’ – after all, this is a full-range speaker design with the addition of a subwoofer section, not one with passive treble and mid and an active bass.

This story is from the November 2019 edition of Hi-Fi News.

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