Alexander the Great. Even if they may hesitate about where on the global map to point at Macedonia, exactly—it's surrounded by Serbia and Kosovo in the north, Bulgaria in the East, Greece in the south and Albania in the West—most people remember it from school's history class as the ancient home of the young warrior king Alexander. Tutored by Aristotle, he ended up defeating the Persian army under Darius III to conquer the entire Achaemenid Empire. He subsequently crossed the Indus into India to rule a short-lived empire of enormous proportions. Planned campaigns to conquer Arabia next were abandoned when he died in Babylon at the young age of 33.


Meanwhile 21st-century fans of so-called Bulgarian wedding music most certainly know of Ivo Papasov, Yuri Yunakov, Petar Ralchev and Neshko Neshev. What they may not know is that they all rose to stardom at the annual Skopje music competition in the Republic of Macedonia. To square our developing circle, today we're being introduced to Vesselin Teoharov as the founder of the eponymous hifi company also based in Skopje. With it we connect world dominion to Macedonian speakers in one easy paragraph. From the Teoharov Model 2 back to world dominion could be a lot harder. Can the hifi market support yet another new brand? Just so, one Vladimir Dobrasinovic, of Serbia's Art Audio Acoustic distributorship in Belgrade, wanted first steps taken. So here we are.

When I was first contacted, the Model 2's final drivers were still open. Vesselin had two versions. He wanted Vladimir's help to decide during a joint audition in Skopje. The right option combined Scanspeak's 56mm² Revelator tweeter with a Wavecor 129cm² ExoticLine BalancedDrive mid and dual 150cm² Scanspeak sliced paper-cone Revelator sym-drive woofers. The left replaced the tweeter with ScanSpeak's ring radiator and Scanspeak's two woofers with Wavecor equivalents.


Still at final decisions, Vesselin had also beefed up the aluminium plinth for the left one to sport two 10mm aluminium layers around a 19mm glass core with M8 machined aluminium spikes. Which of the two Model Two would go into production and be reviewed? Would final R&D demand further changes?