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Epos ELS303 Loudspeaker
|I favorably reviewed the Epos ELS3 mini-monitor in TAS Issue 145 and that well-balanced speaker later went on to win TAS’ 2003 Budget Loudspeaker of the Year award. Though the ELS3s didn’t produce much bass ...read more -
NHT Classic 5-Channel Speaker System
|In recent years, NHT (the acronym stands for Now Hear This) has made waves with its excellent but expensive self-powered, DSP-controlled Xd speaker (favorably reviewed in August 2006 issue of The Absolute Sound). Fortunately, NHT ...read more -
The Zu Definition 2 Loudspeaker
|There’s different for the sake of it, different for a reason and then there’s different with attitude. At first take it’s easy to place Zu Audio and their products firmly in the third category; after ...read more -
JBL Cinema Sound 5.1-Channel Speaker System
|JBL is a more than 60 year-old firm whose slogan, “Pro Sound Comes Home,” is a reference to the company’s reputation as a maker of high-performance studio monitors and sound reinforcement systems. While the idea ...read more -
Klipsch RF-52 5.1-Channel Speaker System
|Ever since audio legend Paul W. Klipsch began manufacturing loudspeakers in the 1940s, the name Klipsch has been associated with horn-type drivers, and it's easy to understand why. Horns are inherently efficient, and as one ...read more -
KEF FiveTwo Model 7 5.1-Channel Speaker System
|Aesthetics-conscious speaker buyers and manufacturers have been trying to find the right recipe for getting authentic surround sound from fewer than five speakers and a subwoofer (see “Simplifying Surround Sound” in Issue 74.) Why bother? ...read more -
Phase Technology DARTS 525 DSP-Controlled, 5.1-Channel Speaker System
|About a year and a half ago, I got my first taste of Phase Technology’s remarkably advanced and utterly unforgettable DARTS speaker system, whose name is an acronym that stands for Digital Audio Reference Theater ...read more -
Infinity TSS-4000 5.1-Channel Speaker System
|A year ago I reviewed Infinity's terrific- sounding $749 TSS-750 surround speaker system, and it quickly became one of my favorites in its price class—a surefire recommendation for entry-level surround sound systems. But much though ...read more -
Klipsch Synergy F-1 Home Theater System
|Klipsch press packets assert that the firm’s speakers always aim to convey “Power, Detail, and Emotion,” and the Synergy F-1 Home Theater system represents an attempt to deliver those virtues in a full-scale surround rig ...read more -
Definitive Mythos ST Surround Sound Speaker System
|About a year ago Definitive Technology President Sandy Gross called me, sounding excited. “I wanted to tell you we’re working on a new kind of Super Tower speaker that will use a variation on those ...read more -
KEF KHT6000 ACE 5.1-Channel Speaker System
|In The Perfect Vision issue 57, KEF's flagship KHT9000 ACE 5.1-channel speaker received a "Golden Eye" award as one of best sounding systems of its kind. That system was technically advanced and chock full of ...read more -
The Gershman Sonogram Loudspeaker
|The one thing you can safely say about Gershman speakers is that they’re decidedly, obviously, gloriously distinctive. They don’t look like other speakers, they don’t adopt the same approach or technology as other speakers and ...read more