WHARFEDALE DENTON 85TH

The Denton 85th Anniversary is a two-way speaker built in the classic bookshelf tradition, beautifully hand-veneered in Mahogany by Wharfedale's master cabinetmakers, featuring an inset front baffle and a traditional tungsten cloth grille.

Beneath its traditional exterior, however, the Denton 85th Anniversary is thoroughly modernized, combining traditional and advanced technologies. The bass unit features Wharfedale’s innovative woven Kevlar cone mounted on a rigid die-cast chassis, delivering rich and detailed bass/midrange output with superb dynamic performance. High frequencies are handled by a woven soft dome tweeter with a high-flux ferrite magnet, designed for smooth and detailed HF extension.

These drivers are integrated using a highly refined crossover, engineered to be nearly imperceptible to the listener, resulting in a seamless, coherent musical output that is both engaging and naturally expressive across all source material.

Wharfedale’s Most Famous Loudspeaker
Wharfedale is proud to present this 85th Anniversary edition of one of the brand’s most iconic and popular speakers – the Denton.

Gilbert Briggs, who founded Wharfedale in 1932, turned the company into one of the world’s most renowned loudspeaker manufacturers by focusing on quality and value.
The Wharfedale Denton exemplified these two principles, combining craftsmanship, natural sound quality, and affordability in a compact loudspeaker that sold in the millions worldwide.
The original Denton inspired many successors based on its highly popular formula, with the Denton 3 being the latest in the line...
...until now!

Technical Specifications:

• General Description: 2-way vented-box/standmount speaker
• Enclosure Type: Bass reflex
• Transducer Configuration: 2-way
• Bass Driver: 165 mm (6.5") black woven Kevlar cone
• Treble Driver: 25 mm (1") soft dome
• Sensitivity: 88 dB (2.0 V @ 1 m)
• Recommended Amplifier Power: 20–120 W
• Peak SPL: 95 dB
• Nominal Impedance: 4Ω; Minimum Impedance: 3.8Ω
• Frequency Response (±3 dB): 45 Hz – 20 kHz; Bass Extension (-6 dB): 40 Hz
• Crossover Frequency: 3.1 kHz
• Cabinet Volume: 13.5 litres
• Dimensions (H x W x D): 340 x 240 x 287 mm (275 + 12 mm with terminals)
• Net Weight: 9.0 kg (each)