Vincent Audio has its headquarters in Germany, but its products are made in China and imported into the UK by well-established speaker maker Ruark. Even if we didn't know it was Chinese-built, we'd have guessed...

Twenty years ago, Ruark gave the world loudspeakers named after ancient armaments: the Broadsword and the Sabre. The latter morphed into 'MkII' form in the late 1980s, then ten years back it quietly went out of production

We put Ruark the Lionheart and his band of loudspeaker drive units to the sword