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Filed under Floor Loudspeaker Reviews By: Sam Tellig  Posted: Aug 27, 1995  Published: Aug 27, 1994  0 comments "Pssst, Sam. I've got this great speaker for you." Continue Reading »
Filed under Floor Loudspeaker Reviews By: Thomas J. Norton  Posted: Jun 07, 1995  Published: Jun 07, 1994  0 comments If Canada has emerged as a hotbed of loudspeaker production in the past few years, the folks at Audio Products International must be positively sizzling. Of their three lines—Mirage, Energy, and Sound Dynamics—Mirage is perhaps the best known in the US, with Energy running a distant second. Mirage, at least in their flagship M series, features rather esoteric bipolar designs, while Energy sticks to the more conservative, forward-radiating approach. Stereophile has had extensive exposure to the various Mirages (a review of one of the M-series babies, the M-7si, is scheduled for a future issue); our exposure to Energy has been virtually nil, save for the odd Hi-Fi Show and CES. And thereby hangs a tale. Continue Reading »
Filed under Floor Loudspeaker Reviews By: Dick Olsher  Posted: May 07, 1995  0 comments A.C. Wente of Bell Telephone Labs was apparently the first person to get the bright idea (in the 1930s) of measuring sound transmission in a small room. A loudspeaker at one point reproducing pure tones of constant power, and a microphone at another point measuring sound-pressure levels, gave him the means to assess the room's impact on sound quality. The measured frequency response was so ragged that I'm positive the venturesome Dr. Wente was duly shocked. Continue Reading »
Filed under Floor Loudspeaker Reviews, Historical By: Anthony H. Cordesman  Posted: Apr 29, 1995  Published: Jun 29, 1986  0 comments I must confess to a certain sentimental affection for Magnepan products. An early version of the Tympani did more to rekindle my interest in audio than any other speaker I can think of. In a world which seemed doomed to finding out just how small and dull it could make acoustic suspension boxes, the Magnepans reminded me that speakers could produce a large open soundstage, real dynamics, and musical life. Continue Reading »
Filed under Floor Loudspeaker Reviews By: John Atkinson  Posted: Jan 10, 1995  Published: Jan 10, 1991  0 comments "Boy, that's flat!" I whistled. I was looking at a quasi-anechoic TDS response Avalon Acoustics' Charles Hansen had produced for his latest brainchild, the two-way Eclipse loudspeaker that he was setting up in my listening room. Continue Reading »
Filed under Floor Loudspeaker Reviews By: John Atkinson  Posted: Feb 01, 1991  0 comments This must be the month I drew the right straw to review "loudspeakers with three-letter initials." Elsewhere in this issue I describe my experiences with a pair of JBLs. Everyone knows that JBL stands for "James B. Lansing," founder of that company. You do, don't you? But PSB? If you've been paying attention here, you probably remember that JGH reviewed one of their loudspeakers back in May 1988. If you haven't, well, listen up. PSB is named after Paul Barton and his wife Sue, who formed Canada-based PSB in 1971. (Paul is still their chief designer.) The company was unknown in the US until just a few years ago, and still has a lower profile here than, well, certainly that other three-letter company. But not for lack of trying. They have at least 10 models—at last count. Continue Reading »