M&K Sound D95

The loudspeaker specialist long beloved by die-hard AV-Holics is now taking aim at regular living rooms with its D95 on-wall model. Ed Selley investigates

- Ed Selley

THE RANGE OF loudspeakers from audio brand M&K Sound already covers off a wide selection of AV roles, so the new D Series has been added to appeal to a different sort of end user. This isn't a speaker to be buried in-wall in a darkened theatre - it's dying to be easily placed on-wall in a two-channel music system, or either side of your TV.

The reason the D95 can be considered simple to install is twofold. First, the cabinet is sealed and largely (but not entirely) immune to proximity to walls. The second is that the cabinet is just 95mm deep. When combined with keyhole mounting on the back and a VESA mount pattern too, you have a speaker that should fit into most environments without a fuss. True, the D95 engineers some all-important cabinet volume by being a little wider (240mm) than you might expect, but at 300mm tall, it's still handily compact.

In contrast to some of the more sophisticated models from the company that have dipole/tripole-based driver arrangements (see HCC #289), the D95 is simplicity itself, with one 1.1in silk dome tweeter and a 6.5in polypropylene bass/ mid driver per cabinet. Something that's interesting is that the D95 puts a lot of load on the tweeter; the crossover network is set at 1.6kHz, which as low as I can recall seeing. Sensitivity is suggested at an amp-friendly 91dB and this doesn't feel like fiction when you start listening.

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PRODUCT: Two-way on-wall loudspeaker