‘Finally, heritage-look speakers without the elite asking fee’: KLH’s Model Four floorstanders come with a decidedly retro 1970s price — and I want them

• KLH Model Four is the US brand’s gorgeous new floorstanding speaker
• Model Four takes the smaller Model Three’s woofer and mid driver/tweeter of the bigger Model Five
• At just $999 / £899 each, they’re less expensive than I’d expected (although you’re going to want to buy two)

Just look at those beautiful speakers! The angled up built-in stands; the three-way design; the glorious front baffle and wooden cabinetry. I haven’t felt this way about speakers since I gazed upon the Leak Sandwich 100 — but those are standmount boxes, and they carry a similar price point (depending on where you live) to the much bigger beast you came here to read about: the KLH Model Four.

Finally, a set of heritage-look speakers but without the super-elite asking fees we’ve come to expect from such a design. I could also list the reimagined Audiovector Trapeze as one of the last times I felt so moved by a pair of hi-fi speakers. And like that charming family affair, I really want this legacy hi-fi brand’s newest series to be a return to form inside as well as out.