We like high quality speakers

We could save a lot of money by using cheap speakers with weak magnets and flimsy cones. But we’ve been in the audio business a long time and we appreciate quality speakers. They are what we would want to own ourselves, or sell to our friends. We don’t sell anything else. The PhaseCue™ system creates three-dimensional, room-filling sound – including virtual surround sound effects – out of one, compact cabinet.

We like wood

There are two reasons why so many speakers today use plastic cabinets. You can make them into all kinds of fun shapes, and they’re cheap. We like fun shapes, and we like saving money. But we really like good sound. And the best speakers – even models selling for tens of thousands of dollars – are made of wood (medium density fiberboard). The same stuff we use in all our systems. It’s acoustically neutral (it doesn’t vibrate, or “sing along” with the music), and it’s solid. We like wood.

We like analog

Our speakers may be the only 21st century manufacturer of analog surround sound systems. They use some digital circuitry, but they are essentially analog designs. We believe that analog systems generally have a more musically accurate character. A well-designed analog system sounds natural – with none of the “digital weirdness” we hear in many digital surround sound systems (some stuff just doesn’t sound right). Also analog is simple. We have yet to encounter a digital audio product whose user’s manual is under 18 pages. Digital, for the most part, is complicated. And life, let’s face it, is already way too complicated. So we like analog.

We like technology

Our PhaseCue™ system generates a very wide sound stage for music -- with the right program material it sounds like you’re listening to speakers eight feet apart from each other. And PhaseCue™ also create a rich, three-dimensional virtual surround effect with movie soundtracks. Listen to the soundtrack of Master and Commander and you’ll hear deck planks creaking and halyards twanging to your left, to your right and in back of you. PhaseCue™ is part science and part art. The system manipulates audio signals – mixing various levels of “in phase” and “out of phase” signal into different speakers – to create this big “out of box” sound effect.
Our Infinite Compliance™ system connects speaker drivers using special acoustic tubes. The result is a open, “big” sound normally associated with much larger speaker cabinet

We like accurate sound at moderate volume

Why does everyone in the industry believe that high sound pressure level is needed for high fidelity sound? Many people like to play their favorite music late in the evening or in small rooms in urban condominiums. With this in mind we have selected drivers with the best materials and we have carefully followed the laws of physics to design sound systems that can play very good music and realistic audio scene at moderate volumes. With our transportable high fidelity system we have even successfully been able to drive the amplifier with six standard 1.5 Volts batteries and still get a very realistic stereo reproduction with extensive frequency response.