Its always refreshing to go into an unpretentious, uncluttered demo room. At NWAS this year Alchris brought along multiple speaker models that packed out their room as they strived to touch all bases. But at UK Audio Show for 2024 they brought their most compact models. Alchris design and build all their products in the UK, selling direct to customers.
Booki is a tiny 2-way with a rear passive radiator. But its punches way above its weight and size. Its fast, fun and drives music along with enthusiasm. It produces bass, but of course its not extremely deep, but what it doesn't do is try to compensate for this with an over eager top end - its a well balanced solution and worked well in this room. At £779 its a great solution for smaller spaces.
Stepping up to the transmission line loaded and ribbon tweeter equipped TX1 standmount gave a fuller sound that provided more warmth and detail, but retained that sense of fun and pace of the tiny Booki. At £1250 it offers very good value.
Back to that uncluttered comment. Both of these speakers were demonstrated with the Cambridge Audio EVO 75 which is a £1500 all-in-one streamer and amplifier. It did a couple of things here today - it provided a real life solution at a sensible price that would work in many homes and it provided a quality and enjoyable signal to show off the performance of the Alchris products.
