I test audio kit every day and these bookshelf speakers are the dragon I’ll be chasing for decades to come

Sonus Faber Concertino G4 bookshelf speakers on a wooden stand, surrounded by turntable, amplifier and general audio equipment.

Sonus Faber Concertino G4: Two-minute review

The Sonus Faber Concertino G4 are a very posh set of passive bookshelf speakers. That poshness isn’t just imbued by the colour palette and material choices that define their physical form, even though they do help a bit. Nor is that poshness fully explained by the not-inconsiderable $5,000 / £4,625 / AU$9,495 price point, though, again, that cost does its own fair share of heavy lifting on that front.