These days, you may know Ruark Audio best for its excellent range of smart, compact radios and music systems. But the Essex-based brand originally started on a more traditional path with passive loudspeakers, launching its very first speaker – Sabre – in 1985, a year after the company was founded. After well-regarded Talisman, Equinox and Solstice models, it wound down the speaker-making side in 2004 to concentrate on its new niche in DAB radios – or 'small audio', as co-founder and managing director Alan O'Rourke called them in an interview with us last year.
Two decades later, Ruark has now returned to its roots with the launch of the Sabre-R bookshelf speakers. Reviving the name from 40 years ago but embracing a modern outlook, the Sabre-R is a two-way design with a 26mm silk dome tweeter and 15cm treated natural fibre cone mid/bass driver. It quotes a sensitivity of 86dB/W/m and can be used with most modern amplifiers outputting 25-100W of power.
