A subwoofer, as its name implies, is a bass speaker designed to operate below the normal frequency range of a typical woofer. Unfortunately, the term is widely misused to refer to the...
Phase Technology speakers come from a company that has manufactured speakers sold under many famous brand names for the past thirty-five years. The new three-way, floor-standing PC8.5...
Quad products are notable for their combination of superb audio quality and tasteful, though often unconventional, design. These qualities are well illustrated by Quad’s new Model...
New England Audio Resource, Inc. (NEAR) has developed a line of loudspeakers designed to provide high-quality reproduction at affordable prices. The NEAR-40M, a floor-standing columnar...
The HK6900, rated at 170 watts per channel into 8-ohm loads from 20 to 20,000 Hz with less than 0.08 percent harmonic or intermodulation distortion, is Harman Kardon’s most powerful...
The Sony ES series of audio components was developed to provide state-of-the-art performance in consumer audio technology. Although they are hardly inexpensive, most ES components are...
Until recently, there were two broad categories of Celestion speakers: the DL series and the SL series. The DL series speakers are fairly conventional, low-to-moderate-cost systems...
Pinnacle’s inexpensive and compact loudspeakers feature the company’s patented Diaduct venting system, which was developed to solve the problem of fitting a duct tube of the required...
During the past year, we have been hearing a lot about 1-bit digital-to-analog (D/A) conversion, developed more or less simultaneously in Holland and Japan by several companies, and...
The KEF Model 105/3, a floor-standing speaker system embodying several advanced and unconventional design features, is the newest member of the company’s Reference Series. A fairly...
The Marantz RS 3559, which heads the company’s Century Collection, is a large, powerful audio/video receiver offering an exceptional combination of control features and high performance...
Wharfedale, a respected British loudspeaker manufacturer founded in 1932 by Gilbert Briggs, has developed a new speaker system that combines classically uncolored English (BBC-type)...
