We’ve eliminated a number of under-performing products from our line-up.

Soft dome tweeters are great for home, car and near-field applications but simply do not project in open space. All of our offerings include hard shell polyamide, polycarbonate, aluminum or titanium tweeters.

Foam surrounds will eventually decompose due to an assault from ultraviolet. Our tower speakers feature butyl rubber or santoprene rubber surrounds.

We’ve cut out all the smaller headlamp-sized enclosures. 50 percent of all music fundamentals fall between 200 and 600 Hz and these petite enclosures roll-off the mids above this crucial range leaving only a shrill screech. Our selection of aluminum canisters feature large enough displacements to reproduce the full midrange spectrum.

3-way systems consisting of a 6-inch midbass, 5-inch midrange and separate tweeter look good and feature a slight increase in power handling over 2-way speakers. But, the surface area of the two cones do not combine since they play separate bandwidths. When it comes to power handling its not how much electrical power you can consume, its more important how much acoustical power you can output before exhausting your amplifier. Doubling up on identical coaxials will produce superior results over 3-way designs.

When using multiples, tightly grouped, identical speakers will deliver the best performance, both in long distance projection and off-axis response. When using four individual tower speakers, if possible, avoid staggering the depth. While you may use both the vertical and lateral rails for mounting, placing one speaker slightly behind another creates a pronounced suckout in the upper midrange and treble region.