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The R55s are relatively easy load to drive. Save your money, get the S501 and add a sub down the road to increase bass extension below 50Hz. A small ported 10" sub will really do wonders to this system more so than a beefier amp.

In our recently added YouTube video we discuss room acoustics and the importance of balancing the sound in your room to get the best possible performance from your speakers. Over treating can make your listening space sound too dead and take the life out of the room. Too little treatment can...

I like it. You may be on to something. BTW we just put up a very basic video on Room Acoustics and plugged a certain book you may be familiar with. Have a look when you can.

No No store I know of will go for such an arrangement of loaning a brand new pair of speakers to a review magazine and then taking them back as Bstock to sell to their customers at a significantly reduced price. It's also not such a bad thing that a manufacturer thoroughly tests a product...

There is some cause for concern that manufacturers can cherry pick review samples. It's happened in the past. However your dillusional to think it's economically feasible for review magazines to buy products to review to elimitate the possibility of receiving golden units.

We uncovered an audio myth on our YouTube channel I didn’t even know was being perpetuated by some esoteric amplifier companies. Apparently there is a belief that designing an amplifier to be too stable and protected to prevent damage or fire during misuse or short circuiting will result in...

If I recall correctly Infinity Prelude MTS was a high ranking speaker for its time and perhaps some of the best stuff Infinity has made to date.

Floyd; I think we can make an exception about following a strict protocol when testing wines. What is more important is the people you share it with and the memories forged or sometimes forgotten if it was a really good night ;)

Floyd; Many thanks for chiming in on our forum. I updated your forum title and also upped your post count so you can now add links.

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.