Fyne Audio F502S

Fyne strikes gold once again

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Fyne Audio is enjoying, to borrow some classic football parlance, an enviable purple patch at the moment. From top to bottom, the Scotland-based hi-fi brand is producing some exceptional loudspeakers, from the recently reviewed F701SP standmounts to the aggressively priced F501E floorstanders.

Fyne unveiled its latest F500S range of loudspeakers at the Bristol Hi-Fi Show in February 2025, promising a “significant audio and aesthetic upgrade” over the previous generation F502. Placed a step above the brand's entry-level F500E Series, the new range - fronted by the large F502S floorstanders - aims to make noticeable sonic strides without a huge increase in price.

The Fyne Audio F502S are a big old pair of speakers. For this kind of money, you can get your hands on the very petite Neat Mystique Classic or the slimline (and cheaper) PMC Prodigy 5, but the F502S towers dwarf those competitors so that, side by side, they look like giants in the land of Lilliput.

These sturdy speakers measure in at 111 x 30 x 38cm (hwd) when placed on their metal plinths, so you will need a reasonably capacious listening space to accommodate them.

Big doesn't have to mean ugly, of course. Our test pair look smooth and shiny when daubed in their piano-grade black gloss finish, and while there are few fancy embellishments to speak of, there is very little that distracts the eye in a negative sense. Maybe the pickiest of picky people might have a problem with the slightly industrial look of the metal driver chassis, but they would have to be very fussy to care.

Internally, Fyne is sticking with what works. The substantial towers feature a 25mm magnesium-dome tweeter alongside a 20cm mid/bass driver and a 20cm bass driver. That mid/bass unit harnesses the brand's signature Isoflare point-source technology, which has trickled down from its higher-end models to its ever-expanding roster of speakers.

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