Speaker Reviews

This was an incidental find as I was not familiar with Jamo speakers prior to this. I am impressed by the details of the highs, very much detailed than the Tannoy M3. The mids are very well balanced. The bass is tight and punchy if placed too close to...

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The SphereX Xbox 5.1 Surround Sound System is born of royal blood. Based on Mirage's Omnipolar technology, the speakers create an extremely natural sounding environment to captivate all Xbox fans out there.

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The inverted bottle meets the custom virtuoso. At some point in the evolution of home theater, someone noticed that the phrase includes the word home. At that point, weird and wonderful things began to happen. Speakers morphed into smaller, more...

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Take it to the limit. I've come to appreciate that, when it comes to evaluating speakers, first impressions count—big time.

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The penny pincher wears Prada. Break out that dusty case of champagne. Get the kids together. Give them each a bottle. No, don't do that. But yell out the window to your neighbors. Call all of your relatives. Throw a few shrimp on the barbie. Make...

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Supersize me. When it comes to TVs and speakers, bigger is most definitely better. Smaller models can be perfectly acceptable, and, in small rooms, they're a necessity. But, if you have the space, you can't beat a large screen matched with a set of...

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An affordable speaker system you just might take a shine to. My daughter has been coming home recently with holes in her slacks—and, no, they aren't the holes she puts her legs through, as she wryly pointed out the other day. (That's what I get for...

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The finesse as implied in this sub-woofer design reflects the blend of physical exquisiteness as well as technical skill to generate a high magnitude of bass frequency sound output.

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The IKON 6, a substantial floorstander that never sounds small, really delivers the goods dynamically - and does so effortlessly. No speaker is completely neutral, and though the overall balance is quite smooth, the midrange is projected a bit in the...

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American design meets German engineering. Even a quick glance at the home theater section of your local consumer electronics retailer reveals an overabundance of A/V receivers. They're a staple component in home theater. After you sift through all the...

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I have had many speakers over the last 30 years dynaudio, wilson watt puppy 5.1 , triangle , Sonus faber guinarious and many others... To start with these are the most beautiful speakers I have ever seen... built like a tank and a voice like an angel....

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I just purchased a pair at a local flea market for $18 b/c I recognised the Onkyo name from the 1980s,and the kevlar cone woofs /fabric dome tweet looked to be high quality. My standard for comparison is the Realistic Minimus 7 with crossover upgrades....

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Trappist ale on a beer budget. I admired the HSU Research HB-1 horn-loaded loudspeaker when I first heard it at the Home Entertainment Show in Los Angeles in June 2006. Nearby demo rooms were stuffed with megabucks two-channel gear, much of which...

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Together again for the first time. As I unboxed this month's Spotlight System, I flashed on the innovative histories of Marantz and Snell Acoustics. Saul B. Marantz was a bona fide American audio pioneer in the 1950s and 1960s. His company's...

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No more. In fact, this week Induction Dynamics introduced the ID1.15 and S1.8 loudspeakers. The two products complete the company's "Super Loudspeaker" line, which also includes the ID1.18 tower loudspeakers and the C1.8 center loudspeaker.

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There are practical reasons for this omission. It's not that we haven't been paying attention to what's "in" these days. But what we know about the laws of physics, at least as they apply to speakers, has also kept us at arms length from radical new...

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Moving speakers for moving pictures. I've had the good fortune of being able to bring some extremely cool gear into my house: a 50-inch plasma HDTV (way back when 50 inches was big for a plasma), a $40,000 Kaleidescape multiroom movie server, and, last...

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I've been reviewing speakers for a long time. I'm not saying my ears are any better than yours, but they're trained. Give me that much credit. I can wax rhapsodic paragraphs ad nauseam on why the latest multi-thousand dollar speaker can bring you...

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The Aeon's 37 x 8-inch electrostatic line-source panel uses MartinLogan's familiar CLS (curvilinear line source) technology, designed to widen the optimum listening zone with its relatively open (yet still controlled) horizontal dispersion pattern, yet...

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Small footprint, Good sound, Built in FM radio, Small footprint, Good sound, Built in FM radio

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In its quest for continuous quality improvement a couple of decades ago, the U.S. business community fell in love with a cobbled-together phrase known as paradigm shifting. The phrase comes from Thomas Kuhn's book The Structure of Scientific...

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The SS line of subwoofers is the more affordable part of the Critical Mass family of subs that includes the acclaimed UL...

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When I say, "horn loudspeaker," what do you think of first? Most longtime audiophiles immediately visualize big corner-mounted Klipsch K-Horns or Altec Lansing "Voice of the Theater" speakers. Although horn-mounted technology is not as common today as...

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Getting Morel of a good thing. Released from the boxes of thousands upon thousands of plasma and LCD TVs was a nasty disease that's induced feverish thoughts of flatness and smallness in the minds of otherwise good and decent people, making them forget...

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The Newton T100 is an engineering success, but (for very understandable reasons) a marketing failure. The idea behind them - other than the marketing dept's desire to fill a void in the lineup - is simple: With the advent of home theater more and more...

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