As much as we admire PMC’s Twenty5 series, there’s no denying they stood as a relatively high entry point into the company’s speakers. So when the British brand revealed a new entry-level range with a starting price nearly half that of the previous most affordable PMC model (the Twenty5 21i), somewhat ironically during the High End Munich show earlier this year, we were a) delighted, and b) intrigued to see how it would fare against the established competition around this very popular and competitive price point. We’re talking long-proven models from your KEFs and Bowers & Wilkins, Dalis and Wharfedales and so on. Well, just a few months later, the time has come to find out.
The PMC Prodigy 1 standmounters we have here make up a two-strong range alongside the Prodigy 5 floorstanders, together opening up PMC speakers to a wider audience looking for compact loudspeakers for small-to-medium-sized rooms below the £2000 / $2000 / AU$4000 mark. But just because the Prodigy speakers sit at the bottom of the company’s lineup doesn’t mean they’re exempt from PMC’s tried-and-tested technologies. According to the firm, they are even measured and listened to alongside reference models, and furthermore signed off by their assembler before they're boxed up and ready for shipping. It certainly seems like PMC is serious in taking its studio-grade sound mainstream.
