Wharfedale has pulled back the curtain on the latest speaker in its Heritage series. The Aston is a limited-edition, UK-made Peter Comeau ‘signature’ model, drawing on more than 40 years of acoustic design.
A labour if personal love for legendary designer Comeau (who we recently interviewed, below), a prototype pair was first shown at the High End audio show in Munich in the spring of 2022 but only now, almost three years later, are Comeau and Wharfedale ready to release Aston into the hifi wild.
Taking its title from the original Aston of decades past (that was designed to be wall-mounted), the new model shares its name, compact nature and two-way configuration, but the similarities are said to end there.
The mid/bass driver features a rigid die-cast chassis and 15cm carbon fibre cone, tuned with the cabinet, while twin rear-firing bass reflex ports are tuned to extend down to well below 50Hz (in-room).
Elsewhere its new treble unit inherits much of its design from the one used in the range-topping Dovedale model, speaker, combining a ceramic magnet motor system with a 25mm fabric dome and a damped rear chamber.
The Aston costs £1,699 per pair (£1,999 with stands) in walnut, mahogany and black oak wood veneers and is limited to a 500 pair production run, released in late February 2025.
Find out more at wharfedale.co.uk.
