Wharfdale Denton Anniver spks. Excellent or hype?


Looking for a monitor, I happened to run across an ad on Music Direct, and Amazon.com, etc for Wharfdale's DENTON speaker celebrating its 80th Anniversary year.

The company claims it has filled this speaker with new technology but a "Retro" look to recall their earlier years of audio. However, has any member made the investment in these "gems"??? ( btw, which have received excellent reviews for smoothness accuracy and detail, and naturalness), or is this just a distracting hype.

BTW, some TESTIMONIALS AND REVIEWS make a strong pitch for the speakers's enjoyable sound on almost all genres of music.... Hard to believe for $500!!!!!!
sunnyjim
In this price range, a listen to the NEW Andrew Jones designed ELAC speakers may make sense.
+1 on the Elacs. I have heard before, both the B5 and B6 in addition to the F5 at RMAF.

They are indeed something special for the money.
Thank you to all have responded so far and provided information. As far as equipment, I currently use a Rogue "Sphinx"(100RMS at 8ohms; 200 at 4 ohms) and an Ayre CX7e mp2 player and a Project Carbon DC TT including an Ortofon spike. Cables are Grover Huffman speaker cable and an older vintage Nordost Red Dawn Flat line IC which is about 5 years old. The PC for the Rogue is the Acoustic Zen Tsumani Plus.

I don't see changing any electronics to tweak the Dentons. Seems ironic I was considering Jade 3 speaker. That is quite a testimonial by Wim1983 but..... the Dentons may not accommodate the music I play.

I got the distance from the wall and a pair of decent 20 inch stands. As usual, MoFimadness has provides an interesting alternative. Though, I never associated good sound with Elac speaker products. ( Their turntables were junk)

However, Andrew Jones may have breathed new life into a moribund company. That I will have to judge for myself. If Best Buy/ Magnolia stores are going to be the dealer, Mo, I must respectfully defer. Thanks to all.
Jim...I went to the Best Buy website and they do not list them. Music Direct is a dealer and gives you a 60 day trial period. Might be worth trouble to try them.
I was interested in Denton too, had the audition with the Roksan Kandy integrate(and also with the Music angel 300B), it sounded warm, decent bass, Vocal didn't had the clarity which I looking for, the high freqency was on the softer side, however for the price, it's worth to consider..

when compared to the Audio note AX-2(tested with Music angel 300B), Audio note had better rhythm and softer bass Vocal had better clarity.