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The room has substantial effect on the low frequency response of any loudspeaker. Careful placement of the loudspeaker and listener, acoustic treatment and a quality room equalization solution can yield significant benefit in nearly all domestic rooms. More uniform bass and lower midrange...

Stereophile has no reason to fear ASR. The changing market for audio equipment and aging audiophiles are much more dangerous.

The speaker is discontinued. There would be no real reason to favor it unless the dealer had the product in stock.

Acoustic and electronic room correction is indispensable in most domestic listening rooms. Audyssey XT32 is a reasonably good system and benefits from careful optimization. Try to define an 18” cube surrounding the principle listening position (ear level in the center of the cube). Imaging is...

My objectivist side serves to provide my subjectivist side with the best possible listening experience!

Stax amplifiers use the high voltage tubes can handle to drive the electrostatic elements without output transformers. This is a substantial advantage and saves a lot of cost and weight.

The Class D Audio SDS-470C has served as the amplifier driving a custom four subwoofer array in my home theater for about five years. Each channel powers two paralleled 8 ohm Acoustic Elegance SBP-15, each housed in sealed 6 cubic foot enclosures and equalized for flat in-room response to 16 Hz...