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Thursday, 01 July 2004
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Written by
Bryan Southard
Introduction
As
much as you love speakers and all the lust-worthy toys that go along
with them, one thing you are glad you don’t do for a living is running
a start-up speaker company. With names like Infinity, Bose and Boston
Acoustics gracing the interiors of some of the finer automobiles and
taking out many big-dollar ads in magazines and newspapers, the task of
competing in the loudspeaker market has become nearly impossible –
actually, it has been that way for more than 20 years. I say “nearly”
impossible because one man, Sandy Gross, has been at the head of
launching two speaker companies – Polk and Definitive Technology – that
have not only made it but prospered. Definitive Technology, Gross’ current
company makes some of the sleekest, most powerful speakers designed for
home theater systems. Have they sold their souls to the Devil to be
able to rock Axis’ Bold as Love in ...
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Monday, 01 March 2004
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Written by
Jerry Del Colliano
Introduction
Audio
enthusiasts struggle to understand why every DVD player can’t always
play every kind of disc. The answer is complicated and often has to do
with nothing more than the raw cost of the universal drives. It is
expensive, especially for a high-end audio/video company, to buy a
transport from an OEM manufacturer and make it into a player that can
play all of the new formats. Some of the early players that can play
both DVD-Audio and SACD skimp on bass management for SACD and/or
convert DSD (the technology that makes SACD sound its best) into PCM,
which is the technology that is most associated with DVD and even CD.
For an audio enthusiast, these compromises are wholly unacceptable,
which presents a difficult challenge. In order to do DVD-Audio and SACD
correctly, audiophiles needed separate players, as well as a receiver
or a preamp with two sets of six-channel analog inputs. Up ...
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Monday, 01 March 2004
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Written by
Jerry Del Colliano
Introduction
Audio
enthusiasts struggle to understand why every DVD player can’t always
play every kind of disc. The answer is complicated and often has to do
with nothing more than the raw cost of the universal drives. It is
expensive, especially for a high-end audio/video company, to buy a
transport from an OEM manufacturer and make it into a player that can
play all of the new formats. Some of the early players that can play
both DVD-Audio and SACD skimp on bass management for SACD and/or
convert DSD (the technology that makes SACD sound its best) into PCM,
which is the technology that is most associated with DVD and even CD.
For an audio enthusiast, these compromises are wholly unacceptable,
which presents a difficult challenge. In order to do DVD-Audio and SACD
correctly, audiophiles needed separate players, as well as a receiver
or a preamp with two sets of six-channel analog inputs. Up ...
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Monday, 01 March 2004
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Written by
Jerry Del Colliano
Introduction
Audio
enthusiasts struggle to understand why every DVD player can’t always
play every kind of disc. The answer is complicated and often has to do
with nothing more than the raw cost of the universal drives. It is
expensive, especially for a high-end audio/video company, to buy a
transport from an OEM manufacturer and make it into a player that can
play all of the new formats. Some of the early players that can play
both DVD-Audio and SACD skimp on bass management for SACD and/or
convert DSD (the technology that makes SACD sound its best) into PCM,
which is the technology that is most associated with DVD and even CD.
For an audio enthusiast, these compromises are wholly unacceptable,
which presents a difficult challenge. In order to do DVD-Audio and SACD
correctly, audiophiles needed separate players, as well as a receiver
or a preamp with two sets of six-channel analog inputs. Up ...
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Sunday, 01 February 2004
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Written by
Brian Kahn
Introduction
Dynaudio
is a Danish company known for over 25 years for producing high-quality
speakers ranging from affordable bookshelf models to some of the
finest, priciest transducers in the world. In addition to the speakers
produced directly by Dynaudio, astute audio enthusiasts may have
noticed that many famous high-end speaker makers also use Dynaudio
drivers in order to build their own speakers. In recent years, Dynaudio
has picked up significant momentum in the ultra-competitive affordable
speaker market and their relatively new Audience line represents
Dynaudio’s latest effort to bring their design expertise to an
affordable price level.
The Audience system reviewed here retails for less than $4,000 and is
comprised of the model 62 ($1,350) mini-towers for the front left and
right channels, the 42c ($450) and 42 ($800) for the center and
surround channels and the Sub-20A ($1,209) for the low-frequency
effects channel. These prices include the wood veneer finishes that are
available in four flavors.
Even
though ...
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