Esm-1s Speakers May 2026

If you are tired of bright, aggressive, "look-at-me" speakers and want something that disappears into the room and leaves only the performance, find a dealer and listen to the ESM-1S.

Enter the from the Italian masters at Rosso Fiorentino . esm-1s speakers

I recently spent two weeks with a pair of these stand-mount monitors, and I’m here to tell you: these might be the most underrated high-end speakers on the market. Before we talk about sound, let’s talk about looks. Pulling the ESM-1S out of the crate feels like unboxing a sculpture. Rosso Fiorentino is named after a 16th-century painter, and that artistic DNA shows. If you are tired of bright, aggressive, "look-at-me"

My god, the imaging. The speakers vanished. Krall’s voice was floating exactly in the middle of my room, about six feet back. The upright bass was to the left, but the air around the strings… I could hear the wood of the bass. Before we talk about sound, let’s talk about looks

9/10 Loses one point only because they demand a serious amplifier. Your ears will thank you anyway. Have you heard the ESM-1S? Disagree about the bass response? Let me know in the comments below.

The cabinet is a work of art. It uses a non-parallel "polyhedral" shape—basically, no two sides are flat against each other. Why? To kill internal standing waves before they start.