High-End Audio Buyer’s Guide 2024: Kharma Exquisite EXQ-MD-3.0-S

$115,000

The $115,000 EXQ-MD-3.0-S is, incredibly, the seventh from Kharma’s top of the line. The speaker employs a unique method of cabinet fabrication, implementing high pressure laminate (HPL) in a multi-layer construction that is CNC machined and adhered in vertical plates to dampen mechanical vibration to almost zero. This allows incredible control of both the internal cavity shape and the volume of the cabinet and ensures the reduction of diffraction and phase anomalies. The result is a speaker enclosure that is sumptuous, and a sonic signature that connected with reviewer Matthew Clott on a very deep emotional level. Subtlety and refinement, tonal structure, timbre and texture, the music itself were all wonderfully present, within one of the deepest and most natural stages MC has ever heard. (309)