All of which makes the S5 2024 an enticing prospect – at a price. Just as this in no longer an S5 in physical terms, it has left older S5 models way behind in terms of performance too. So much so that I’m not sure that the S5 nomenclature is helpful. Sure, the speaker is the same size and offers a similar performance envelope (at least on paper) but, while I can understand the desire to maintain the S5 identity, this speaker unceremoniously buries the performance of its predecessors. If you want to really understand what the S5 2024 represents, I’d suggest that it makes far more sense to consider it as a scaled down M6 rather than an improved S5. It makes more sense of what this speaker does but almost more importantly, it makes more sense of what it costs. It might look like an S5, it might be called S5 but make no mistake – this is a whole different beast. It moves you far closer to the original performance than older S5s ever could, a goal that is after all, at the very heart of the high-fidelity promise.
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