Monthly Archives February 2014

    Paradigm Sountrack 2 Sound Bar, $900 Sound bars made their mark in the mid 2000s. The big distribution manufacturers offered bars for $300-400 with a dozen drivers and amplifiers on board. People expected them to sound good. Really? Think about it. The magnets on these speakers are smaller than what is used in your door bell. The amplifiers are like what is built into a computer speaker. These bars are literally no better than what is in the TV itself. Their only advantage is that they face forward while speakers within TVs face away from the viewer. It
Read More

    New Anthem Surround Receivers: For the Audio Purist! Anthem has just introduced its new line of surround receivers. In “round one” Anthem earned a reputation for fine sounding audiophile receivers with the best room correction circuit on the market- ARC, Anthem Room Correction. The new line has a more advanced version of ARC. ARC 1M measures the response of the speakers in your room. It reads peaks and valleys. It chops off the peaks and boosts the valleys. Almost all competitors just lop off the peaks. The typical room has a dip in the midrange and a bass
Read More