
Edifier MR5
A tri-amped three-way for two-way money — the magazines love it; the Klippel scanner is less sure.
6 reviews
Budget powered bookshelf speakers
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Edifier, officially Beijing Edifier Technology Company, is a Chinese audio maker founded in 1996 and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. It makes powered bookshelf and desktop speakers, studio monitors and headphones, and owns the AirPulse and STAX brands.

A tri-amped three-way for two-way money — the magazines love it; the Klippel scanner is less sure.

A four-inch-wide desk pair that measures better than Edifier's own monitors — if you aim it right and keep it close.

The MR4's smaller successor measures better and plays nicer on a desk — it just won't play loud.

Edifier's long-running step-up pair: warm, clear and generous to most listeners, but boomy, coloured or outclassed by the MR4 to its critics, and happiest close up with the bass dial turned down.

The cheap desktop monitor the measurement crowd actually likes — as long as you keep it close and keep it quiet.

The budget powered pair everyone has heard of: warm, full and flexible for most buyers, but coloured in the lab and too bright, too dull or too muddy for a sizeable minority, and best close up with its tone dials in play.
Prices in USD, recorded when each review was updated; speaker prices are for a pair.