John Alex Hvidlykke of LB Tech Reviews set tiny Argon Audio Forte A4s in his living room beside his own large speakers and found them so good that "you almost wonder whether you could settle for so little." Playing the radio news on the Wi-Fi version, he could hear the difference between the hosts in their studio and the rooms the correspondents were sitting in. Argon's Forte and Fenris speakers are fully active, which means each driver gets its own amplifier and the sound is split between woofer and tweeter by a small computer before it is amplified. Hvidlykke explains why that matters. The speaker can play louder, distortion in the bass never reaches the tweeter, and a small woofer gives far deeper bass than its cabinet would on its own. Argon suits listeners who want a complete stereo system, turntable input and TV connection included, in two small boxes.

Argon sells two parallel ranges. Fenris costs less, and Forte, by Hvidlykke's account, sounds a little more nuanced. The Forte A4 is the place to start, and his verdict was "In small rooms and at reasonable volumes, they are formidable." Get the WiFi version if you want to stream, since it sounds the same and adds AirPlay 2 and Chromecast. For a bigger room, step up to the slim Forte A55 floorstander, which held full volume and deep bass in Hvidlykke's 25-square-meter living room. The inputs are all on the left speaker, so keep sources and the TV cable on that side or order a longer link cable. Hvidlykke suggests setting the compact A4 against a wall for more low end, and at least half a meter from the wall for the floorstanders. Mad Audio heard the midrange open up after two to three weeks and recommends setting the TV's HDMI output to PCM.

Argon began as the house brand of the Danish hifi chain HiFi Klubben. Its first hit, according to Son-Vidéo, was the DAB1 table radio, and Argon still makes radios. With hifi listeners, turntables made the name. The TT-4 has a carbon-fiber and aluminum tonearm with a very fine slot cut into the arm to calm its twisting, and a built-in phono stage lets it plug straight into active speakers. EISA named the TT-4 its Best Value Turntable for 2022-2023 and called Argon one of the largest turntable manufacturers in Scandinavia. Lasse Svendsen of LB Tech Reviews wrote that its arm was built for a better cartridge than the stock Ortofon 2M Red, and the TT-4 Special Edition arrived with the 2M Bronze, which he heard as more open and better focused. Hvidlykke credits the first Forte A4 with setting "a new standard for how cheap a successful active speaker could be."