Definitive Unveils New One-Speaker Surround System January 03, 2008
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I’ve already said that 2008 would be the year of fashionable, yet hamstrung, surround sound bars and we’re barely a few days in when we get the first one of 2008.
US audio specialist Definitive Technology will be bringing its latest Mythos Solo surround bars to the UK in the coming months.
The SSA-42 [due in February] and SSA-50 [due in May] will sport price tags of around £450 and £550 and promise to bring users the latest in one-speaker surround, a.k.a. pseudo surround. In quality terms, you're looking at something a lot better than TV sound but probably not on a par with dedicated 5.1 or 7.1 speaker set-ups. Although, they are a lot neater for all you cable-phobes.
The SSA-42 is designed to sit happily under TVs up to 46in and has three 8.3cm drivers with coincident array 20mm tweeters, two 8.3cm full-range drivers, and four 7.6cm surround drivers. The SSA-50, for bigger tellys over 50in, has three 11.4cm drivers with 25mm tweeters, two 11.cm full-range drivers and four 8.3cm surround units. Definitive Technology is sold through Pulse Marketing in the UK.
Other one-speaker surround systems Gizmodo has featured include the Yamaha YSP series, Philips AmbiSound HTS8100 and Denon’s DHT-SH3 X-Space.-Martin Lynch
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