Wharfedale Aston Limited Edition

UPDATE 7/10/25

Our Wharfedale Astons showed up with damage and had to refuse them. We have another pallet on their way. Hopefully they will show up in better shape. Thank you for your patients!

WE HAVE MORE ASTONS ON THEIR WAY!

An Heirloom of British Hi-Fi – Made in Britain

Drawing on Gilbert Briggs’s founding vision from 1932 - that loudspeakers should convey the thrill and emotion of a live performance - the Aston is the ultimate expression of Wharfedale’s nine-decade legacy. Meticulously designed, engineered, and handcrafted in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, each pair is engraved with a unique serial number. This strictly limited run of 500 pairs ensures that owning an Aston is as rare as it is rewarding.

From its vintage-inspired wood-veneered cabinet to the modern standard of finish and precision craftsmanship, the Aston balances heritage styling with cutting-edge performance. Every surface, from the inset grille trim to the hand-matched veneer, is chosen to reflect the standards that have made Wharfedale Britain’s most famous loudspeakers. Its timeless aesthetic conceals a speaker that is thoroughly contemporary in capability.

Innovative Transducer Design

At the heart of the Aston lies a brand-new 150 mm (5.9 in) carbon-fibre bass/midrange driver housed in a rigid cast chassis, coupled with a profiled phase plug to deliver super-smooth upper mids and uncoloured dynamics. The 25 mm (1 in) soft-dome tweeter features a rear-chamber damping system that pushes its resonant frequency far below the crossover, revealing every nuance of detail without harshness. These bespoke drive units, born from decades of award-winning transducer research, offer the perfect union of strength, speed, and precision.

Precision Crossover & Acoustic Engineering

The Aston’s carefully tuned crossover network employs air-core inductors and high-spec polypropylene capacitors, refined through thousands of hours of listening tests across all genres. This level-matching and slope tailoring ensure a seamless hand-off between drivers, presenting music exactly as the artist intended. The multi-layer cabinet, engineered through complex modelling and resonance-control testing, works in tandem with dual rear ports to extend clean bass down to below 50 Hz- astonishing for such a compact stand-mount design.

Custom-Engineered Stands

Every pair of Astons ships with a bespoke stand crafted from hardened high-carbon British steel and tempered-glass inserts. Conceived alongside the speaker, the open-frame design offers torsional rigidity, optimal height positioning, and controlled bass-floor interaction. Finished to match the furniture-grade cabinets and supplied with stainless-steel spike seats and handcrafted gloves, these stands transform listening into a ceremonial ritual.

An Invitation to Rarity

With only 500 pairs ever produced and every component Made in Britain, each Aston speaker is a testament to Wharfedale’s unwavering commitment to musical authenticity. Once these serial-numbered editions are gone, they will not return. Experience the full impact, thrill, and emotion of live performance, authentically, and exclusively with the limited-edition Aston. 

Specifications:

Speaker Type:	2-way vented-box / standmount
Enclosure type:	Bass reflex
Transducer complement:	2-way
Bass driver:	5.91" black Carbon Fibre cone
Treble driver:	0.98" soft dome
AV shield:	No
Sensitivity (2.83 V @ 1 m):	86 dB
Recommended amplifier power:	25 – 100 W
Peak SPL:	95 dB
Nominal impedance:	4 Ω
Minimum impedance:	3.9 Ω
Frequency response (±3 dB):	55 Hz – 20 kHz
Bass extension (–6 dB):	44 Hz
Crossover frequency:	2.3 kHz
Cabinet volume:	10.8 L
Dimensions (H × W × D):	13.39" × 7.87" × 10.04"
Net weight (speakers):	35.27 lbs.
Net weight (speakers & stands):	66.14 lbs.
Gross weight (speakers):	40.79 lbs.
Gross weight (speakers & stands):	76.06 lbs.
Stand height:	22.05"
Stand width:	10.43"
Stand depth:	10.04"
Stand net weight:	30.86 lbs.
Stand gross weight:	35.27 lbs.