Tagged: statement systems

Rear-ported floorstanders against glass walls cause boundary reinforcement and reflections. Here's how to place, measure and tune them properly.

Below 20Hz is infrasonic bass: felt more than heard. Here's what it takes to reproduce it properly, and whether a statement system should bother.

A $150,000 reference system is only as good as the worst-sounding zone it's networked to. Here's why multiroom integration is the statement system's real weak point.

In a statement room, piling on absorption kills the air around the music. Here's when diffusion is the better tool, and where I've seen it misused.

Before you spend on another headphone amp, check what's feeding it. At the statement end, mains quality and earthing can matter more than the next box.

At the reference end, the best-measuring components don't guarantee the best system. Sofia Laurent on why matching, not chasing specs, is where six-figure systems actually live or die.

A reference DAC costs as much as a car. Sofia Laurent explains what that money actually pays for once the chip itself stopped being the problem.

At the top end, matching an amplifier to a speaker is about current, impedance behaviour and damping, not the number on the spec sheet.

At the reference end, sealed and ported subwoofer choices stop being about box size and start being about power, group delay and what the room will forgive.

Statement systems live or die on the last metre of cable. Here's why even six-figure hi-fi rooms lean on unglamorous streaming boxes to get the multiroom bit right.

Sofia Laurent maps the real curve of price versus performance in hi-fi, and where your next dollar actually stops improving the sound.

Does a reference system reveal more from streaming services, or just their flaws? A statement-system reviewer on what actually changes at the top end.

In six-figure systems, cables, racks and mains conditioning aren't tweaks — they're line items. Sofia Laurent on what's engineering and what's ego.

Statement systems rarely run one big sub. Here's why four smaller ones, individually managed, beat a single monster box every time.

On six-figure systems the room is still the weakest link. Here's how much of the budget acoustic treatment should actually get, and why owners resist it.

Past a certain price, statement systems stop chasing performance and start chasing something else entirely. Here's how to tell the difference before you spend.

Room correction software can flatten a frequency response, but it can't fix decay, timing or a bad first reflection. Here's where the line actually sits.

At what point does a home cinema outgrow a single AVR box? A look at when processor-plus-amplifier separates actually earn their keep.

From air-bearing platters to outboard motor pods, what separates a reference turntable from a very good one, and why the gains get smaller as the price climbs.

Even reference loudspeakers can't out-engineer a bad room. Here's what serious acoustic treatment actually buys a statement system, and where the money should go first.

Past a certain point, extra dollars buy engineering headroom and craft, not more sound. Here's how to tell the difference in a statement system.

Four subwoofers aren't about loudness. Here's what a properly configured multi-sub array actually fixes that two subs, EQ or a bigger single box never will.

D'Agostino's Momentum Z monoblocks deliver 500W into 8 ohms and 1kW into 4, with Kinetic Drive Regulator power and a network monitoring port.