While each Reflection Series speaker baffle features a smooth surface and invisible hardware which makes them look totally awesome for you audiophiles out there that play your speakers with the grilles off, the real secret behind Reflection’s Super Linear Plane (SLP) Baffles is their unique ability to nearly eliminate acoustic diffraction. Super-shallow grilles using an invisible magnetic attachment create an almost entirely seamless alignment with the baffle plane to significantly reduce sonic barriers. The resulting sound is equally pristine with the grilles on or off. Coupled with Reflection’s tightly spaced driver placement, each speaker delivers near-point-source sonic coherence, wide dispersion, and astonishing imaging. And besides all that technical jargon, they look great and sound even greater. Check’em out.
- Jeff Litcofsky
Here’s an odd one. Our Solo AM/FM radio was featured in the latest CSI NY episode on CBS (go to the 24-minute mark). While this seems very exciting to all our fans and all who work for the brand, apparently the radio was used as a murder weapon and someone got their head bashed in with it. OUCH! And if that wasn’t odd enough, the “the killer” used the radio to kill a dog with it as well. I don’t know what else to say. I’m greatful for the free exposure of our wonderful table radio but, Oh My!
- Jeff Litcofsky
Boston’s SoundWare multi-purpose speaker really does work anywhere. On a wall, in a corner, on a shelf, as a stereo pair, as main or surround speakers in a home
theater system, even mounted to a deck outside, yes they are weather-resistant. Also they come in 7 cool colors. But if your a bit picky and want them to match your yellow Lamborghini Murcielago well luckily our SoundWare speakers have a paintable surface.
- Jeff Litcofsky
Reality: Not True
Bass is a product of different factors, including the mass of the moving elements (cone, voice coil, and suspension) the power area of the speaker magnet, and the volume of air in the cabinet. As with any recipe, altering any one of these ingredients will yield speakers with a different flavor. Just looking at the woofer won’t tell you the quality of bass a speaker produces. That’s something your ears can evaluate better than any tape measure.
One of my favorite things about demonstrating speakers is to create magic – I mean that literally because the best audio demos happen when the speakers completely fool you into experiencing an alternate reality. But I am not a magician by trade so I don’t really care about giving away the secrets! So here’s a good one I showed last week in Hong Kong during our big sales meeting. I played our Classic Series CS 26’s and our new CPS 10Wi “wireless ready” subwoofer for a group of twenty-five people. I played a Yellowjackets cut with lots of low end and it sounded great. Then I picked up the power cord for the sub, which wasn’t attached to anything, and the crowd went wild! Where was the bass coming from? Well, I said, it is actually the smaller CPS 8Wi model (only $399.99 US) halfway down the hotel meeting room (about thirty feet away). I marched all twenty-five people down the room so we could have a look at the CPS 8Wi, which was pounding away heartily, without complaint.
And I showed them how an audio cable was leading across the room to the CPS 8Wi, and thereby the sound was playing. But now for the double-whammy: I then yanked out that audio cable leading into the sub and THE SUB WAS STILL PLAYING. (Yes, it was plugged into AC power.) So, what’s the deal? I was streaming the bass to the CPS 8Wi from our handy accessory, the WT 50 Wireless Transmitter, which works with the Boston Acoustics CPS 8Wi, CPS 10Wi, and the CPS 12Wi subs. Out of their boxes, the subs are normal wired models, which takes care of many situations, but who needs wires when you can add the WT 50, put the sub across the room like I did, and fool all your friends with your new subwoofer magician trick. Abracadabra!
-Stephen Shenefield
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