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I had that combo and miss it! The 3090 is so smooth and warm sounding. Good o'le days. Enjoy.

XTZ has found a relatively untapped niche in the Internet Direct market by offering showroom grade speakers at a fraction of the price point. The Divine 100.49 Towers are a 3-way 4 driver design using high end drive technology and components throughout. They offer exceptional midrange detail...

ELAC Debut Loudspeaker Line Preview Marking their re-entry into the North American market, German loudspeaker maker, ELAC, has just announced a new entry-level speaker line by acclaimed speaker designer Andrew Jones. The price point of these speakers and their potential performance seems...

Excellent points! Yes they seem to primarily target the brands you mentioned. Also a speaker like an ML will not do well being placed in the middle of the room without a backwall. I also think the advantage an ESL offers is primarily heard in stereo listening which of course isn't done in...

Thanks Steve. Based on your review, I will be renting this at Redbox this weekend! PS. I hope you don't mind that I tweaked the formatting of your post a bit. Eliminated some of the bold text and tightened up your scorecard, etc.

A talking point of a YouTube Video we did last year covering loudspeaker myths put in question whether the research loudspeaker companies claim to do actually trickles into their products. A subscriber pondered this question about Harman, claiming their consumer products are often "decidedly...

Tom, as you know there is a lot of stuff in CEA2010 that needs to be changed. Both myself and others have been lobbying this for years. The latest ver of this standard is even worse in some regards and needlessly more complex and confusing. Ironically some of it is incompatible with the old...

No but Average SPL data is nonsense and 1 meter peak gives the illusion of A LOT more output to the uninitiated. It's no different than a receiver company rating power with 1CH driven, 1kHz at 10% THD. They are ALL starting to do that now!

Steve you should know better than to post 1m peak data. Always reference 2 meter RMS and don't include that averaging crap :) Discrete frequency data only please.

Make it simple. Use bare wire at the speaker terminals and compression bananas at the receiver terminals.

What if you could have the high-end, two-channel sound in a modern, highly flexible 7.1 system? The Classé Sigma SSP AV processor and Sigma AMP5 Class D multi-channel amplifier promise to satisfy both the finicky audiophile and the demanding home theater lover. From the first listen, I felt as...

DTS has announced its first Blu-ray title in DTS:X which will be available on July 14th, 2015. The stylish, psychological thriller Ex Machina will leave audiences enthralled when it arrives on Blu-ray especially if you've got a DTS:X capable AV receiver or processor to decode the latest...

Guys; Unfortunately I've lost a few dependable writers recently either to expanded families or getting full time careers. Damn them :) Seriously, we really need help producing quality editorial content at all levels: reviews, previews, tech articles. If this sounds like you, please PM or...

All good points. Actually I tried to create more reflections for the right speaker hence partly why I added the bar (well that's the reason I told my wife anyways :) ). The rack doesn't really add any ill behavior from what I've found. In reality the right speaker may be a tad more lively...

Based on the previews shown on YouTube, it was obvious this show would be a pile of shiz. Don't waste your time. Supergirl was never done right in the past and this certainly won't be any good either. Watch Daredevil on Netflix!

Steven Wilson released his fourth solo title named “Hand. Cannot. Erase.” this February through Kscope. Hand. Cannot. Erase is a concept album that is worth listening to in its entirety and following along with the images on the Blu-ray. What I find most interesting about the Blu-ray version...

Well said. The 'necessity' of Anechoic chambers is a bit overplayed when it comes to speaker measurements and designs. They are nice to have and make the measurement process easier and faster. But it's ignorant to think one cannot accurately design or test a speaker without one.

Pioneer won some awards on this site for offering some of the best budget speakers we've tested. Andrew Jones was the chief designer of TAD (owned by Pioneer) who makes excellent speakers. Maybe cut a little slack especially when you don't know all the facts. ELAC is a highly regarded brand...