PERLISTEN AUDIO S5t > The Speaker Shack Review

Perlisten Audio is now one of the biggest brands in the speaker industry. Seeing that it only started a few years back, this is quite an achievement, but it is thoroughly deserved, as they have managed to burst onto the scene with cutting-edge design and technology. Under the helm of CEO and designer Dan Roamer and CSO Lars Johansen, they have gone from strength to strength, but the quality of their products defines this success. As a company, they have also managed to surround themselves with talented people with the technical know-how, and this also helps to reinforce the brand's appeal as having attended many of the HiFi shows they are always on hand to speak to people about Perlisten and the speakers and subs that they are demoing to the public, this is always refreshing to see and hear. They sent me the S5t, which is the smaller floorstander sitting below the S7t, minus two bass drivers for a more manageable speaker size for medium-sized rooms like mine. I have had both the black and white finishes previously, but for this review, they sent the S5t in this gorgeous gloss Ebony finish, which looks truly stunning!

Build Quality and Features

The build quality of Perlisten speakers is completely flawless. With the S5t in this stunning gloss Ebony finish, they are some serious eye candy for us consumers.

Setting Up and Equipment Used

Setting up the Perlisten S5t speakers and positioning is fairly straightforward thanks to an incredibly wide stereo image that they manage to project into the room thanks in a big part to the beamforming DPC array which gives a very wide sweet spot into my listening position, with some slight toe in they only take a few minutes to get right and in my room I know it well enough to know what works for my seating position.

Conclusions and Final Thoughts

The Perlisten S5t speakers really are some of the most accomplished speakers to grace my music room, no matter what music you play through them they just get on with the job and allow the music to come alive and really shine through, they never fail to surprise or impress me with the amount of detail and musicality that is presented in front of me. These are most definitely my favourite Perlisten speakers so far as they perform perfectly with stunning bass reproduction and tons of detail thanks to that beryllium tweeter and the DPC array, which creates a near-perfect soundstage. Whether that be a jazz bar playing Patricia Barber's beautiful Modern Cool or the fast-paced ambient and electronic music of Boris Blank’s techno world, it is just pure perfection. They also look so good in the high-gloss Ebony finish!
Has Perlisten Audio created the perfect speaker with the S5t? I think that they might possibly have done.
The Speaker Shack awards the Perlisten Audio S5t Speakers with an Editors Choice award as they are one of the finest floorstanders available today.

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