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The Perfect Vision CEDIA 2012 Show Report - Part 3
|In search of new or recently released home theater audio components, I attended CEDIA Expo 2012, which was held in Indianapolis, IN from September 6-8, and will be preparing a multi-part show report. This is ...read more -
The Perfect Vision CEDIA 2012 Show Report - Part 2
|In search of new or recently released home theater audio components, I attended CEDIA Expo 2012, which was held in Indianapolis, IN from September 6-8, and will be preparing a multi-part show report. Note: To ...read more -
Anthony Gallo Acoustics Classico CL-3 5.1-Channel Speaker System (TPV 110)
|<font size="3"></font> In our sister publication The Absolute Sound, I recently wrote a favorable review of Gallo’s new Classico CL-3 floorstanding loudspeakers ($1595/pair)<font size="3">[1]</font>, which are among the first of a series of Gallo speakers ...read more -
The Perfect Vision Editor’s Choice: Home Theater Speaker Systems, Under $2500
|GREATEST VALUE: PSB Alpha Studio Theater System ($1256) For little more than the price of a Brand X home-theater-in-a-box rig of questionable provenance, PSB will sell you a legitimate, high performance 5.1-channel speaker system, which ...read more -
The Perfect Vision Editor’s Choice: Home Theater Speaker Systems, $2500-$4999
|GREATEST VALUE: Definitive Technology Bipolar BP-8040ST System ($2595) While the BP-8040ST is the next-to-the-smallest member of Definitive’s latest-generation bipolar speaker series, it serves as the centerpiece of an affordable surround sound system that produces a ...read more -
The Perfect Vision Editor’s Choice: Home Theater Speaker Systems, $5000 and up
|GREATEST VALUE: MartinLogan ElectroMotion ESL System ($5290) Though priced just a couple of hundred dollars above the lower limit for this class, you’d never know it from this system’s sophisticated sound. A true story will ...read more -
MartinLogan ElectroMotion ESL 5.1-Channel Speaker System (TPV 109)
|The name MartinLogan will forever be associated with high performance hybrid electrostatic loudspeakers, since this is the area where the firm has done most of its pioneering development work. But what we didn’t necessarily see ...read more -
Wharfedale Diamond 10 5.1-Channel Speaker System (TPV 109)
|Wharfedale’s long running Diamond series is a bit like the Volkswagen Beetle. After close to thirty years in production, it has taken on a kind of life of its own as a standard bearer for ...read more -
First Listen: Wharfedale Diamond 10 5.1-Channel Speaker System
|It’s been nearly 30 years since Wharfedale launched the original Diamond, a diminutive and unassuming bookshelf model that sold for well south of $200 a pair. Now over five million speakers later, the 10th generation ...read more -
Magnepan’s “Tri-Center” Concept: Does Stereo Sound Better with Three Channels?
|I recently had the opportunity to visit Magnepan’s White Bear Lake, MN headquarters and manufacturing facility, partly for a factory tour, partly to get an introduction to the firm’s new Mini Maggie speaker system, and ...read more -
Paradigm MilleniaOne 5.1-Channel Speaker System (TPV 108)
|Early in the history of reproduced sound someone got the bright idea to put a transducer in a wooden box. The idea caught on and for the next nearly 100 years we’ve seen wooden boxes ...read more -
Monitor Audio Bronze BX Speaker System (TPV 104)
|The British loudspeaker maker Monitor Audio has been a leading proponent of using drivers that features light, stiff, and highly responsive metal diaphragms. In fact, one could argue that high tech metal drivers are as ...read more -
Cambridge Audio Minx S325 5.1-Channel Speaker System (TPV 102)
|Small satellite/subwoofer-type speaker systems are nothing new and quite frankly they all promise “big sound from small boxes.” Given that some extremely formidable VBC’s (Very Big Companies—e.g., Bose, Sony, and others) offer well-established sat/sub-type products ...read more -
Magnepan’s On-Wall Surround Sound Speaker System--Part 1 (TPV 96)
|Most audiophiles worthy of the name have heard (or at least heard of) Magneplanar loudspeakers and know of their reputation for delivering exquisite sound quality and exceptional value. Many of us have, at one point ...read more -
Home Theater Audio at CES 2011, Part 2
|This is Part 1 of a two-part blog. Click here for Part 1. MartinLogan MartinLogan continued a process it had begun at CEDIA 2010, with the release of the full ElectroMotion surround system. The system ...read more
