Fyne Audio F500S Bookshelf Speaker
The right bookshelf speaker should sound like it was voiced for your room, not for a showroom you'll never sit in.
When a Great Speaker Fights Your Room
A lot of high-end monitors are voiced in a perfect space and then sold into real ones. Put them in a room with hard floors and glass and they turn bright and edgy. Put them in a room full of soft furniture and rugs and they go dull. The sound is baked in, and you are stuck with whatever it does in your space.
A Monitor You Can Actually Dial In
We chose the Fyne Audio F500S because it hands that control back to you. A 25mm magnesium compression tweeter sits at the centre of a 150mm IsoFlare driver for the clarity you want, and a rear Presence Control lets you match that top end to the room you're actually putting it in.
What the Specs Won't Tell You
You Set the Top End to Suit Your Room
Every room does something different to the high frequencies, and that is usually what makes a good speaker sound wrong in the wrong space. The rear Presence Control lets you lift or drop the 2.5kHz to 5.0kHz range by 3dB. You can calm down a bright, reflective room or wake up one that has been deadened by carpet and curtains, all from one dial on the back.
Detail Without the Glare
Metal-dome tweeters can get the detail but bring a hard, metallic edge with it. The F500S uses a magnesium dome that is stiff and light enough to stay clean and fast without that glare. You hear the texture in a voice or a cymbal without the sharpness that makes you want to turn it down after an hour.
It Sits Near a Wall and Still Sounds Right
Most bookshelf speakers get boomy the moment you push them back toward a wall or into a cabinet. The F500S fires its port down into a Tractrix diffuser, spreading the bass out evenly from underneath instead of pumping it out the back. That gives you real placement freedom without the low end turning thick and slow.
The Audio Two Verdict
The F500S is the bookshelf we point people to when the room is as much a part of the problem as the budget. It gives you a genuine high-end monitor and then lets you tune it to the space instead of asking you to rebuild the space around it.
Set it up on good stands, spend two minutes on the Presence Control, and you end up with a sound that fits your room rather than one you have to live with.
Tech You Can Hear
| What You Hear | Why It Happens |
|---|---|
| The top end matches your room | Rear Presence Control adjustable 3dB from 2.5kHz to 5.0kHz |
| Fine detail without the hard edge | 25mm magnesium dome compression tweeter |
| Instruments locked in one place | 150mm IsoFlare point-source driver |
| Clean bass even near a wall | BassTrax downward-firing Tractrix port |
| Bass that sounds bigger than the box | Braced cabinet tuned to a low-distortion downward port |
Technical Highlights
- 2-way bookshelf, downward-firing BassTrax Tractrix port
- 150mm IsoFlare bass/mid driver with 25mm magnesium compression tweeter
- Presence Control: adjustable 3dB from 2.5kHz to 5.0kHz
- Frequency response: 45Hz to 34kHz
- Sensitivity: 89dB, 8 Ohm nominal impedance
- Recommended power: 30 to 100 Watts
- Dimensions: 325 x 204 x 317mm (H x W x D); 8.3kg each
- Finishes: Black Oak, Natural Walnut, Piano Gloss Black
Why Choose Audio Two
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