PSB Alpha T20 Loudspeaker

It’s hard to believe that Paul Barton, founder of PSB, launched his Alpha range speakers all the way back in 1991. Unpretentious in style but heavy on performance, Alphas have had a remarkable run—perennial crowd-pleasers for the budget-minded, and the blue-plate backbone of the company’s loudspeaker lines since their introduction. But thirty years is thirty years—advancements in speaker engineering, materials, and production made an update of the venerable Alpha too big a target to pass up. Rather than releasing a mere facelift, PSB embarked on a serious ground-up re-design. Here’s what the company’s been up to: New woofer cones are …