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Athena Audition Series Home Theater Speakers
Daniel Kumin  |  Nov 09, 2003

Photos by Tony Cordoza As I unpacked Athena Technologies' Audition Series home theater speakers, I recalled that Athena was the Greek goddess of wisdom, reason, and purity. Was it wise and reasonable, I wondered, to expect purity of sound from a six-piece system that costs less than $1,500? If anyone could make such a system, though, I figured Athena could.

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Revel Concerta home theater speaker system
Daniel Kumin  |  Dec 03, 2005
Revel is the most audiophile-oriented speaker division of the Harman International empire, which includes JBL, Infinity, Harman Kardon, and Lexicon.
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Crystal Acoustics THX-3D12 Home Theater Speaker System
Daniel Kumin  |  Jun 05, 2006
Crystal Acoustics is a new brand to me, and to most American home theater fans. The British outfit exploits the far from revolutionary concept of combining European design with made-in-China cost efficiency to reach for a new level of affordability.
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Vienna Acoustics Schönberg Speaker System
Daniel Kumin  |  Oct 04, 2006

And now," said Dr. Freud, "we will do a little free association, ja? If I say Vienna, do you say ... sausage? Waltz? Sacher torte?"

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Klipsch RF-83 Home Theater Speaker System
Daniel Kumin  |  Nov 03, 2006
As much fun as a monster truck and almost as imposing (but with better bass), the Klipsch RF-83 home theater speaker system is big, heavy, and powerful. It's also unusual in a couple of ways.
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Focal Chorus Home Theater Speaker System
Daniel Kumin  |  Feb 06, 2007

Ah, la belle France! Les vins! Les fromages! La cuisine! Les ... high-end loudspeakers?

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Jamo Concert C 80 Series Home Theater Speaker System
Daniel Kumin  |  May 04, 2007
Denmark may be best known for savory hams, sexy design, and bipolar royal heirs, but it's also a land of loudspeakers.
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Definitive Technology Mythos ST Loudspeakers
Daniel Kumin  |  Jul 01, 2007
The flat-screen revolution has spawned a lot of dramatic and innovative loudspeakers, many of them different takes on the Definitive Technology Mythos - a family of sleek aluminum speakers that almost single-handedly reinvente
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DCM TimeFrame TFE200 Home Theater Speaker System
Daniel Kumin  |  Sep 04, 2007
Loudspeaker maker DCM has been around just about as long, and has reconstituted itself and its product line nearly as many times, as Lynyrd Skynyrd
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PSB Synchrony Home Theater Speaker System
Daniel Kumin  |  Nov 03, 2007
In the 30 years of its existence, PSB Speakers has, by my count, introduced a new flagship line only three or four times.
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Klipsch Icon XF-48 active stereo speakers.
Daniel Kumin  |  Jun 15, 2008
Klipsch began making high-performance speakers well before the advent of the transistor, so when it unveils an all-new flagship design, the world pays
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Infinity Classia home theater speaker system
Daniel Kumin  |  Aug 24, 2008
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SVS MTS home theater speaker system
Daniel Kumin  |  Oct 08, 2008
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Snell Acoustics Signature Series C7 speaker
Daniel Kumin  |  Mar 16, 2009
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Earthquake Sound Titan Telesto Speaker System
Daniel Kumin  |  May 07, 2010

Earthquake Sound's origins are deep in the world of 12-volt (that's car stereo to you and me), where they take their bass, and their SPLs, very seriously. So while I was a bit dismayed by the size of the carefully shrink-wrapped pallet that its Titan Telesto-based speaker system arrived on - it could easily have contained a whole-house stand-by-generator - I was not particularly surprised.

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