“It was a hi-fi moment that stopped me in my tracks …”

“Transient sounds on the guitar notes were razor sharp (yet never edgy or overly aggressive) …”

“Great low bass is often this way; it’s not present until the music calls for it, and it doesn’t linger around once its impact has been heard and felt. The Vantages are great low-frequency performers.”

Hailey 2.2 was recognized as a 2019 Product of the Year by HiFi Review, one of the most popular magazines in Hong Kong. Read the full review here.

“The outstanding characteristic is a sound so natural and spacious, you don’t think about the equipment at all, you can simply relax and enjoy the music.” Review By Phil Gold – Enjoy the Music.com

Read the full review here.

YG Acoustics Hailey 2.2 review by HiFi+ Magazine’s Chris Martens.
Like the XV and Sonja 2.2, the Hailey 2.2 conveys a sense of extraordinary sonic transparency, meaning the speaker will show you low-level transient, textural, and spatial details in recordings that you perhaps never knew existed. Read the full review here.

Carmel 2 was reviewed by HiFi & Records in a wonderful and in-depth feature.

The article features the red version of Carmel 2 and discusses the worldwide impact of this cleverly designed compact speaker. YG Acoustics was able to translate a short quote into English.

The reviewer writes: “…the Carmel 2 allows for a more detailed presentation of the instruments. Other speakers can also portray a saxophone, but with the YG a real 3D impression is created, which allows for a high degree of playback-realism – expressive and impressive.”

Sonja 2.2 review by HiFi+ Magazine’s Chris Martens. “The Sonja 2.2 manages to be highly informative while also remaining uncannily smooth sounding and unflustered, whether playing loudly, softly, or anywhere in between (where competing speakers often achieve perceived detail at the expense of a subtly bright, brittle, and edgy sound).”

Please find full review here.

Sonja 2.2 review by The Absolute Sound’s Kirk Midtskog.
Please find the full review here.

Several key quotes from the review:
“…the Sonja 2.2’s greatest strength, in my opinion, is its uncanny level of resolution and its lack of apparent artifice or strain. One can more easily relax and enjoy the music as it unfolds because there is so little hardness in the upper frequencies. “Detail and ease” seems to be a theme that a select group of excellent speakers embody to a much greater extent than merely good speakers do. Count the Sonja 2.2 among that select group.”

“Compared to most other speakers, the soundstage sounds as if the YGs were placed about two feet farther apart and in a slightly larger room than they actually are. Individual images within the larger soundscape are focused, not in an exaggerated, hyped-up way, but in a manner that simply makes subtle musical elements more discernible.”

“Music unfolds in a balanced way—tonally, dynamically, harmonically, and visually proportionally realistic within its overall soundscape.”

Sonja 2.2 featured as the cover story of Haute Fidelite, France’s leading high-end audio magazine, and is read in multiple countries around Europe.
For the full review (in French) please see here.

Carmel 2 was reviewed by Taiwanese magazine My-Hiend.

The reviewer’s comments (translated from Chinese): “Faced with Mahler’s complex large-scale orchestral music, the sound field of the system was impressive. Particularly the precise soundstage, the details of each instrument, and the dynamic integrity as a whole. The texture and control of the sound was excellent.”

For the full review (in Chinese) please see here.

The cover story of the April 2017 issue of HXOS Plus features Hailey 1.2.
The review’s conclusions (translated from Greek):

“There is no speaker that is absolutely uncolored, no speaker that does not have its own tonal character. But there are a few shining examples that are less colored than our amps and sources, than our cables and recordings. The Hailey 1.2 clearly belong to that select category. They are so uncolored and true to the music, that we hear what our equipment is doing, we hear how our cables and room are behaving, we hear what our recordings sound like, instead of listening to the speakers’ coloration. The Martin Logan CLX and the big full range Sound Labs come to mind, as speakers with only one drive unit and no crossover, that possess exceptional transparency and truthfulness to the source. The fact that YG Acoustics has managed this feat with a three way dynamic speakers is really a miracle, a true engineering feat.”

“There is no doubt that YG Hailey 1.2 is one of very few speakers (regardless of technology or operating principle) that puts the listener inside the original musical event, that let him/her stop fidgeting with ancillary equipment and recordings and start enjoying the music. Especially thanks to this miraculous ability, even when setting aside its superb build quality, it really justifies every dollar of its substantial price.”

Thanks to our Greek distributor Aphrodite’s Vision for providing the translation.

Senior reviewer Mr. Holger Barske of Hifi Test magazine published an article about Carmel 2. The review (in German) can be found here.

Mr. Barske’s conclusions (translated from German): “YG’s Carmel 2 is an extreme speaker in every way. It always plays well, but with careful setup it pushes the limits of the ‘compact floorstander; concept to a new level.”

Thanks to our German distributor PIA for providing the speakers for the review, and making it all possible.

HiFi+ has published a phenomenal review of the “super-speaker” Sonja XV.

Special thanks to GTT Audio for making their showroom, and a wide array of top-notch ancillary equipment, available for the extensive audition.

Veteran reviewer Chris Martens’ conclusion: “YG Acoustics Sonja XV stands as the finest and by far the most accomplished loudspeaker I have yet heard, and by no small margin at that.” here.

France’s VUMetre magazine subjected Hailey 1.2 to both an exhaustive listening test, and a precise measurement-lab inspection.

Their conclusions, translated to English:

“indisputable measurements…linearity, phase-coherence, low distortion”

“totally natural reproduction, highly powerful resolution, tonal correctness, highly precise soundstage” here.

HiFi+ magazine has chosen their 2016 award winners, and we are very proud to announce that the Sonja XV is the Cost-No-Object Loudspeaker of the Year.

The magazine summarizes: “…effortless, unforced treble performance, perfectly matched by a midrange, bass, and sub bass that redefine what is possible to be heard in an audio system.”
We encourage you to read the entire article here.

Senior reviewer Greg Weaver of TAS magazine auditioned Sonja XV, and concluded:

“This pioneering and benchmark-setting creation from YG is quite simply the most articulate, accurate, and musically engaging loudspeaker system I have heard. Period. I’ve heard speakers that sell for nearly four times as much that can’t begin to touch the Sonja XV in dynamic scaling, articulation, effortlessness, bass weight, transient speed, transparency, and individuality of pitch definition. The Sonja XV’s ability, especially as a 10-driver-per-channel, four-tower system, to communicate with a singular, cohesive, unified voice is unsurpassed in my experience. And its BilletDome tweeter is the most articulate, revealing, musically compelling treble transducer I’ve yet heard, easily surpassing the performance of any of the treated beryllium domes that have, until now, held my favor.”

The full report can be found here.

Carmel 2 was featured the front cover of the October 2015 issue of Hi-Fi+.

Inside is a fantastic article by Chris Martens, which can also be found on the magazine’s website.

The reviewer concludes: “…Carmel 2 demonstrates truly astonishing power handling capabilities and vibrant, full-bodied dynamics. It also belies its modest size by serving up surprisingly deep, powerful, and extended bass.” “This also holds true when playing pipe organ material rich in low-frequency content, which the Carmel 2 happily reproduces with powerful and shuddering depth tempered by an excellent measure of control.” “This compact and exquisitely made floorstander…offers transparency, detail, neutrality of voicing, and overall refinement… The Carmel 2 is without a doubt an unqualified design triumph.”

The April 2015 issue of The Absolute Sound features YG Acoustics™’ Hailey™ 1.2 as its cover story. Inside, a glowing five-page review is augmented by an interview with lead-designer Yoav Geva.

The magazine also includes a report from CES 2015, with two “Best of Show” recognitions for YG Acoustics™. The full review can be found here.