AFTER THE GLAMOUR of the Monitor Audio PL300 and Wilson Benesch's Trinity, it's easy to feel a little underwhelmed by a product such as the DTwo. It just looks so ordinary in such elegant company. The ingredients are conventional, too. No fancy cabinet materials or shapes here, and no headline-grabbing drive-unit technology. Look beyond the obvious, though, and you'll find much care has gone into the engineering.

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The drivers, for example, are high-quality units designed for performance rather than keeping the marketing people happy and those ordinary-looking cabinets are made of different types and thicknesses of wood. Few manufacturers go to such lengths.
How do the ProAcs sound? In a word: wonderful. These speakers are all about balance. No part of the frequency range intrudes, and dynamics, timing and stereo imaging are spot-on. Whether you listen to Mahler or Mos Def the DTwos sound right at home. There's the right mix of refinement. drive and finesse to keep most people happy.

Just make sure you use a heavyweight stand like Partington's Dreadnought Broadsides and position the speakers out into the room. You might find similarly priced speakers that impress more on a short demo, but we doubt there's many that will please as much in the long run.