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Introduction The Audio Research CD2 is a single-box CD player from a company best known for their analog products, but many enthusiasts have equal respect for Audio Research’s digital wares. Lets take a look at what this player is all about. On the surface, this player sports the look that Audio Research has made their trademark. The chassis measures 19 inches wide, 11-3/4 deep, five-and-one-quarter inches tall, and weighs in at a lean 17 lbs. It is dressed with the traditional industrial faceplate and black handles, which span vertically on either side of the front face. It has control buttons that are recessed, arranged horizontally across the lower portion of the chassis. The buttons are approximately one half inch square, with a slightly spongy feel. Symmetrically on the face of the chassis are the drawer to the left and the display to ...

The Best of 1997 1997 has been a great year for The Audio Revolution. In the past 12 months our readership has grown 250 percent, we have added writers like Ken Kessler, Kim Wilson, Milton Chu, Jason Karsh and John Sunier to provide more original content than any other high end A/V magazine on the Internet plus we even got few advertisers to sponsor our new contests so you can win some of the best gear money can buy for free. In rapping up our first full year of publication (actually we are 16 months old) The Audio Revolution would like to highlight a few products that we have reviewed (or are going to be publishing reviews on soon) that are extraordinary performers. This is best of the best for 1997. The Product of The Year The Sunfire True Subwoofer MII The Sunfire True Subwoofer is clearly the most innovative and ground breaking product of ...

Introduction The Avalon 2055 is a $5000 fully balanced, dual mono, professional mastering equalizer. It features four full adjustable parameters of equalization in a dual mono configuration (one set for each of your left and right channels). Via its smaller controls, located below the four main EQ controls for both the left and right channel, the Avalon 2055 is capable of honing in on the tiniest imperfections in your sound. Conversely you can tailor large portions of your music or film system's performance with sweeping equalization over wide sections of the musical spectrum. You have always been told EQ is taboo. The old wives' tale that equalization is bad and that it introduces the dreaded audio menace `phase shift' is simply outdated. Let's look into the basic process which creates a compact disc. When a band is doing a basic tracking session in a studio, each track they record has the potential to be EQed. That could ...

Introduction Not so long ago, owning a palatable home theater loudspeaker system was cost-prohibitive and somewhat room-dependent. Aura Sound has broken down these barriers by developing the LSCP-2 Line Source Cinema Package at a very affordable $799.99. Aura Systems, makers of the Aura Sound cinema speaker systems, has yielded 20 patents over the years in the pursuit of economical but excellent loudspeaker performance. The LSCP-2 is no exception. Four identical two-way bass reflex, LSB-527M, bookshelf speakers utilize 5.25-inch high-definition polypropylene woofers and the patented Line Source monopole tweeter to fill out the mains and surrounds. These speakers are magnetically shielded, allowing close proximity to TVs, and include a proprietary low-frequency alignment design, resulting in a low, tight bottom end from a small enclosure. For controlled dispersion and increased handling for maximum bass output, the LSC-537M center channel speaker doubles up on the 5.25-inch ...