Speakers

They looked sharp decked out in ravishingly beautiful cherry veneers, set off with piano-black panels. Their dazzling finishes and distinctively contoured cabinets were a big improvement over the brand's previous staid boxes. Maybe that's why Boston's...

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Great sounding speakers.....I had a pair of Mission 773e speakers and those sounded great but bass was weak.....so I purchased a pair of Monitor Audio Bronze B4's and was amazed at the low bass response, front and rear ported these speakers handle the...

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The PL3-212 is an impressive subwoofer system that packages cutting-edge style with outstanding performance. If you are bass hungry and want to bring the pain, this is the perfect fix. Sound quality was respectable and output was incredible, but the...

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No beating around the bush. No sugarcoating. I'm just going to cut to the chase-subwoofers in this price range don't get much better than this. I admit, I was a bit apprehensive at first when I opened the box to see the flamboyant sytling of the...

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So when Monitor Audio decided to produce a new flagship line, it were almost conservative in aiming at a price that barely breaks five figures. The new Platinum range, topped by the PL300 at $10,000/pair, hasn't exactly been designed for supermarket...

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The company has six distinct speaker lines, starting with the entry-level DM; next comes the Excite, which features Dynaudio's most affordable tower. The rest of the lines take off from there with Focus, Contour, Confidence, and finally the...

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Canton speakers are also made in Germany, and like German automobiles and cameras, they are far from the least-expensive brand in the high-end speaker category. So when I was offered the chance to review the new Canton GLE home-theater speaker system,...

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Energy has always taken satellite/subwoofer sets seriously. The Canadian speaker brand, recently acquired by American-owned Klipsch, got into the sat/sub game early with the now legendary Take Five package. As successive Take products became steady...

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KEF's flagship Model 207/2 is a domestic audio speaker matching the standards of a broadcast monitor. It levels with the standard acoustic clarity and precision. They function as floorstander with 4-way bass reflex and crossover frequencies. The KEF...

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totaly amazing was disapointed with the 242s but these are on a diferent level alltogether . baetter than watt puppys

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I have a remark about my preview writing: about the Entry L, I enjoyed very much Madeleine Peyroux, wich is not quite heavy metal (using the Rotel RA 04 amp.) Music is the most important, I think this speakers are good for a wide range of music.

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The Gadget: A set of 2.1 speakers (two satellites + a sub) that can connect wirelessly to your Mac or PC via a USB dongle to provide audio playback ac...

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Johann Sebastian Bach, when asked why the rigidly structured fugue was his favorite compositional form, used to reply that within discipline there is great freedom. With the introduction of the groundbreaking Integrator and SmartSub system, Thiel Audio...

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My lonely battle to establish the satellite/subwoofer set as a respectable speaker category just got a little less lonely. Bob Carver, legendary designer of amps and speakers, has joined me on the space-saving speaker front. Carver first gained fame...

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Every audio reviewer thinks back on specific products and sometimes wishes that he or she bought them following the review. For me, one such product was the Polk RT3000p. The two-piece speaker featured a powered subwoofer, with the mid-tweeter section...

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The Quad LITE speaker system is one of the four best $2k surround rigs I’ve ever heard (the others are in this survey). Its clear, natural sound is incredibly engaging and compelling— enough so that my first two guest listeners asked if the...

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Recorded music is a cozy conspiracy between conventional speaker technology and listening expectations. Most speakers are made of cones and domes, so we've gotten used to their particular dispersion patterns and regard them as a normal part of music....

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One of my formative experiences as an audiophile was a visit to Michael Hobson's showroom in a New York Soho loft. This was before Mike started Classic Records. He was selling Avalon loudspeakers and Jeff Rowland Design Group amps and preamps. How well...

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It almost pains me when I have only good things to say about a product after testing. Don't get me wrong; it's not because I'm some kind of scrooge and take glee in writing a damning review. Rather, when a product is this good you're naturally tempted...

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It took two fairly determined UPS delivery men to get the SVS PC-Ultra sub off the truck, up the five steps into my building, and up to my apartment. At least it's an elevator building. They delivered it with a sunny smile, probably visualizing the...

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Speakers come and go in my listening room—as I persist in calling it, although it also includes a front-projection system, an LCD HDTV, and my home office. But there's one review I relive every day. And that's my rave review of era's Design 4 speaker...

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High-resolution speakers for high-definition video. When it comes to high-end loudspeakers, MartinLogan stands out as a clear favorite of music enthusiasts. Avid fans of MartinLogan's electrostatic speakers listen with rapt attention to their superior...

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The Meridian D2500 Active Sub Woofer is designed to bring you the highest quality sound possible, whether as part of an enhanced stereo system or a full home theatre system. Using a 200-watt amplifier wired directly to twin 10-inch woofers in active...

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To Americans accustomed to seeing other Americans waddling through shopping malls—and let me be the first to admit I've been doing a fair amount of waddling myself lately—the streets of Paris come as a pleasant shock. How do people who feast on duck...

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As a result, CES had tons of teeny, tiny sub-compact speakers jammed into "soundbars" or "framing elements" meant to be mounted above, below, or to the sides of wall-mounted flat-screen TVs. Some sounded—and looked—pretty good, but these folks were...

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