FinkTeam Kim stand-mount loudspeaker

REVIEW
Steve Dickinson
Jan 19, 2022

I could go on, but suffice to say the Kims seem pretty agnostic as to genre. Classical, jazz, rock, country, electronica, girl and guitar; whatever I’ve thrown at them has always been delivered in a fundamentally lucid way, all the relevant elements of the music interlocked securely and tightly, but not in a buttoned-down sense. Everything is free and expressive, but cohesive. It’s like every musician in my collection got sober and upped their game. Anitra’s Dance from Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite [Decca] was definitely a dance, rhythmically fine-boned, with accents and punctuation points just so, little musical fragments passed around the orchestra like tiny gifts. Utterly delightful. As was Solveig Slettahjell and her incomparable version of Tom Waits’ ‘Take it with me’ on Silver [ACT]. Never less than laid-back, this was positively languid, she has all the time in the world to perform, and all you need to do is give yourself the space to luxuriate in it.

The Kim is that rare and beautiful creature: an entry-level product that needs no excuses. This is no corner-cutting and cost-shaved bare-bones model, the Kim competes on its own terms and has the balls, and the finesse to challenge anything at or near its price. Or a fair few costing a good deal more, for that matter.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Type: Two way, reflex ported, stand-mounting loudspeaker with integral stand
Driver complement: 1 × 8” mid/bass driver, paper cone with rubber surround; 1 × 110mm Air Motion Transformer high frequency unit, pleated Kapton diaphragm with 50µm aluminium strips
Distortion: 0.2% THD @1W
Crossover frequency: 2.2kHz
Crossover type: 4th order acoustic Linkwitz-Riley; all-pass delay for the HF unit; LF impedance compensation. Air core inductors, Mundorf polypropylene film capacitors and Mundorf low inductance and Bifilar resistors. Additional controls for HF extension and damping
Frequency response: (in room, typical) 35Hz–25kHz, adjustable to 45Hz–23kHz, -10dB
Impedance: Average 8 Ohms, 5.9 Ohm minimum
Sensitivity: 86dB @ 2.83V / 1 metre
Dimensions (H×W×D): cabinet: 500 × 300 × 310mm
(height & depth 854 × 412mm with stand)
Weight: 25.1Kg each
Finishes: Choice of veneer finishes and front panel shades
Price: £8,900/pair (standard finishes)