David Price of StereoNET writes, "I liken Karl-Heinz Fink to the music producer Trevor Horn." Horn made hits for Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Seal, and Fink has designed speakers for other companies since 1986. FinkTeam is what Price calls his solo career. Its speakers pair a big paper-cone woofer with an unusually large tweeter called an Air Motion Transformer, a pleated membrane that squeezes air out from between its folds. Because that tweeter is so big, it can take over from the woofer much lower than usual, at a point Jason Kennedy of Hi-Fi+ calls "crazy low for a two-way." FinkTeam says the result spreads evenly into the room with no hole in the middle. Price heard the Kim as "almost electrostatic in its evenness," and Jeff Dorgay of TONE says it "almost feels like listening to a giant, full range speaker." FinkTeam suits listeners who want a two-way's coherence with a big woofer's weight.

Start with the Kim, a standmount fixed to a welded steel stand that tilts it back. Fink wanted it low enough to go below windows and work close to walls, and Price found it easy to place about 30 cm from the wall. Marc Phillips of pt.AUDIO heard the Kim and the bigger Borg back to back at Pacific Audio Fest and called the Kim a "very close second place finish." The Kim is an easy load, and Dorgay drove it with everything from a small class A amp to big monoblocks. Use its Damping knob to match your amplifier, with settings for a modern transistor amp, an amp like a Naim, or tubes. The Borg is the step up, with a bigger woofer and extra knobs for mid, presence and treble. Kennedy heard more life from a Quad tube amp once he changed its Damping setting. Pursuit Perfect System spent a couple of days dialing in a pair of Borgs and got usable bass to about 30 Hz in a small room.

Fink started as a teenage DIY builder who preferred British speakers to German ones, and he told What Hi-Fi? that KEF's founder, Raymond Cooke, once spent a whole evening giving him ideas. Ted Jordan mentored him. In the mid-1980s a three-month job helping his uncle's speaker company stretched to three years and a brand called IQ, and Yamaha became Fink Audio's first client. Later work included Tannoy's Mercury and Revolution ranges of the late 1990s, and Ketan Bharadia of What Hi-Fi? calls Fink Audio Consulting one of the "most influential and least well-known companies" in loudspeakers. FinkTeam began almost by accident. Marantz's Ken Ishiwata heard a prototype with a 15-inch woofer and asked for a finished pair, which was shown at the High End show in Munich in 2016. A designer said it looked like a washing machine, and the name WM stuck. The Borg followed in 2018 and the Kim in 2020, both named from Star Trek.