Redefining Price-to-Performance Ratios: Wharfedale Diamond 12.2 Bookshelf Loudspeaker Features 6.5-Inch Klarity Driver, Plays Music with Emotion, Immediacy, and Depth Wharfedale Diamond 12.2, the largest bookshelf loudspeaker in the company's striking Diamond 12 Series, makes its strength known both visually and technologically: A powerful 6.5-inch driver. More on it below, but for now, understand that it combines with an array of other savvy elements – all completely redesigned from the ground up – to anchor a model that plays everything from rock to classical and jazz with engaging emotion, poise, openness, texture, depth, and immediacy. In other words, Diamond 12.2 basically redefines the price-to-performance ratio in the sub-$500 loudspeaker field. 100% Music Direct Guaranteed. Now, more about that midrange/bass driver. It arrives comprised of trademarked Klarity cone material – formulated from a blend of polypropylene and mica to add stiffness while remaining lightweight for low coloration and fast responsiveness. Fitted with a low-damping surround and shaped to achieve a flat response curve, it produces expressive dynamics even on complex material. It also touts a precision-crafted magnet system with an aluminum compensation ring to minimize the effect of variations in inductance as the voice coil travels, ultimately leading to an absence of distortion and intermodulation generated by the motor system. As for the aforementioned voice coil? It's wound on an epoxy/glass-fiber bobbin produces higher power handling than those assembled on aluminum machines – and claims a stiffness lacking on Kapton types normally found on speakers at this cost. Diamond 12.2 also shines when reproducing high frequencies. Manufactured from woven polyester film with a high-loss coating for open, smoothly extended high frequencies, its one-inch soft-dome tweeter boasts an optim