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Saw this movie with the wife tonight. It was pretty awesome. DiCaprio rocks. People used to laugh at me when I said I liked him when he did "Catch me if you Can" and the movie about Howard Hughes. Now after seeing Departed, Shutter Island and this movie, is there any doubt? I don't thinkso :D

that's correct. It didn't make a difference on their speakers in my brief listening test, but that doesn't negate the necessity for using better quality parts for all speakers. I used to work as a telcom engineer prior to doing AH and I can tell you parts quality and tolerances are everything...

Sure but Axiom won't send product for this shootout. They weren't too thrilled with our views on part quality affecting measurable and audible distortion in crossovers. See Crossover Brains of Your System Part II They also don't feel a good enough standard is in place for quantifying...

The spacing of the tweeters and woofers is calculated to allow the speaker to act like a dispersion averaging array which reduces comb filtering of multi driver systems but yes there will be lobing and comb filtering just like any speaker with multi drivers playing the same frequencies. The...

There can still be biases in blind tests such as: losses associated with grille material to cover the speakers as we found interpretation error of results too small of a sampling size to get meaningful results When it is close between a pair of speakers, you really need to listen...

Actually that was our First Look article not a formal review. Our First Look articles tend to be more detailed than most of our competitors so called "reviews". :p

Blind testing is a bit over rated and often never done correctly by most people, including the manufacturers that tout it as a necessity. Do you need to do a blind test to determine if a gourmet angus hamburger tastes better than a 99cent McDonalds toe-nail burger? I don't think so. Blind...

No and stop making statements like this or you will make me write a 7k word tech article explaining exactly how this works. I don't have time for this :) The additional subs add the ability to play louder while also smoothing out bass response. To do a fair comparison, you must level match...

That is a great question and its harder to level match than most people realize. I discuss how I level match in the last Speaker FaceOff we did: http://www.audioholics.com/reviews/speakers/floorstanding/2010-1k-faceoff I use wideband pinknoise and C-wt on the SPL meter. Internal Pink noise...

Actually Bose cubes sound better than you'd imagine....but you have to be sitting about 2-3 feet from all of them at once :)

Its fun but not accurate. The human ear is a terrible absolute reference but a great comparitor. Your reference is shot after only a few seconds so going off memory is anecdotal at best. I once found a pair of bookshelf speakers at a dealer that I thought sounded wonderful, best I ever...

You really need to be comparing speakers in the same room, and level matched to make such an assessment. I have listened to the entire Def Tech line up and even used to service them back when I was in college working at a hifi shop. I can tell you that the differences between Def Tech and RBH...

No the HK 3490 is the only stereo receiver that I know of with internal DAC's. Its a true gem!

If you are in a really small office, the EMP tube amp will have enough power for your needs. If you want to play them really loud, definitely get the HK receiver. It has a much more robust and powerful amp section than the EMP amp. Here is my review of the HK3490...

I've done all I could with my contacts at Denon. I spent hours measuring issues I found on the AVP-A1 and sent reports. They claimed to have forwarded to Japan. It's a bit ridiculous if you ask me. The only way this will get resolved at this point is if enough owners voice their complaints...

Been playing Halo3 again. I am hit or miss. Some matches I get 15+ kills others I can't stop dying. I am the master of sticky grenades though :eek: I will buy reach when it comes down to $20 :)

In a small room or office the EMP 41-SEB's are the best sounding bookshelf speakers I've heard regardless of price. Under the RBH name they would sell for over $1k/pair b/c of the Beryllium woofers. Don't misjudge them b/c of size or price. They are true jems. Bigger and heavier does NOT...

nothing like a good IPA.. mmmmm.

In my dads generation, people lost their hearing from being on the frontlines of Normandy or N.Korea firing motor shells. Our generation kids are getting deaf listening to overcompressed hip hop crap on their ipods. How easy and convenient has life become for this generation?

PSB prefers we do a dedicated review next year when the product is shipping. Here is a current list: RBH Sound 1010-SEN with ext 500 watt amp Rythmik FV15HP Earthquake MKVI-15BLK Funkywave FW12.X_SA1000_Brindle with ext 1000 watt amp SV Sound PB12-Plus I...