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Fee dback Li st e ni ng Room gett ing the ton e w ro ng on a co up le of t h e rea lly la rge dr u ms. But be cause t he b ass response is necessar ily li mited, t he pr ob- lem wasn’ t more t ha n detec table. Much more not iceabl e wa s t he f ur ious rhy t h m a nd t he energ y . T hat odd scraped gourd in the i n t roduct ion came on w ith po[...]

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Fee dback Li st e ni ng Room complicated t h i ngs. Here ’ s how we solved t he problem. The sou rce we selec ted for t hese t est s was a combinat ion of our CEC TL5 1X be lt-d r iv en t ra n s po r t a nd t he Be nc h- m a r k DA C 1 c o n v e r t e r r e v i e w e d i n our la st iss ue. W e d id t h a t bec ause t he Benchmark ’ s head ph o[...]

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Fee dback Li st e ni ng Room we k now well, a nd li stened t o t hem on our t wo-box player: a CEC b el t -d ri ven t ra nsp ort a nd our Cou n ter point D AC. W e t h e n c o n ne c t e d t h e S q u e e z e b ox to t he D A C usi ng t he sa me coa x ial d ig it a l c a ble (a n A t l a s O pu s , i n a 1.5 m l en g t h). L i s te n i ng w as done[...]

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T he fir s t tim e w e ever met Vin ce B r u z z e s e h e w a s s h o w i n g a prototype of a ver y small speak er with what seemed at the t ime like an abs urdly high pr ice. W e'r e gla d to say that we e nc ou rag ed hi m t o pe rse ve re, and the r es t is h is to r y : the tiny “ove rpr iced” speaker tu rned out to be the T otem Mo[...]

Fee dback R en de zvous t h a t , w i t h t h e r i g ht e q u i p me n t , t h e Ma n i- 2 rem ai ns to day one of t he mos t f or m id ab le a nd mo s t c o m mu n i c at iv e spea kers av ai labl e. U H F : I nsi de the M ani-2 , the t wo woofer s are facing each other? Br u zz e se : N o, t h e y ’ re b ac k-t o -b ac k . T h e y' r e c [...]

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