The beauty of the S300 is that it affords listeners all three choices, conveniently and at a reasonable price.
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Dipole puts the two outer drivers out of phase for a diffuse sound Bipole puts them in phase, for wide but coherent coverage and Monopole switches off the outer drivers, allowing the midbass and tweeter to provide direct, forward coverage, which many prefer for surround-sound music. Three dispersion options are provided, selected with a bottom-mounted switch: Dipole, Bipole, and Monopole.
#CAMBRIDGE SOUNDWORKS T500 SERIES#
The small, curvaceous, 3-way Newton Series S300 MultiPole surround speaker ($449.99/pair) features two 21/2-inch midrange drivers, one at each end of its curved front baffle, along with a centrally located 1-inch silk-dome tweeter and 4-inch midbass cone. Like the T500, the MC500 is biwirable, which is how I ran it. Mounted atop my rear projection TV, the MC500 sounded best aimed directly down at the listening position, so I propped it up in the rear with an AudioQuest Sorbothane foot. For center-channel use, the panel drivers are arranged vertically, with the tweeter atop the midrange driver. The 3-way Newton Series MC500 ($399.99) features the same midrange module and tweeter as the T500, and it can be used vertically as an L/R speaker or horizontally as a center-channel, thanks to an ingenious circular panel containing the midrange and tweeter, which can be rotated 90° and locked in place. Rear-cabinet controls include continuously variable subwoofer-level and bass-contour controls, Sub In and Link In/Out jacks, and biwirable double sets of 5-way binding posts linked with gold-plated jumpers for single-wire use. It's available in real-wood veneers of mahogany or blond maple.ĬSW supplies long AC cords fitted with right-angle IEC connectors that plug into a bottom-mounted, fused IEC power jack next to the subwoofer's On/Off switch. It also includes a 12-inch passive radiator, a midbass module with 61/2-inch and 4-inch molded-composite cones, and a 1-inch, reinforced silk-dome tweeter with neodymium magnet. This handsome, 85-pound, 4-foot-tall 4-way design, raised on a pair of metallic-finished crosspieces and either spikes or disc feet, features a 300W, class-D, pulse-width-modulation (digital) amplifier driving a 10-inch, side-mounted subwoofer of molded composite. It sells these and other brands of A/V gear direct from its catalog, via the Internet, and in its own retail stores in New England and Northern California.ĬSW's top-of-the line, magnetically shielded, Newton Series T500 Tower ($2199.99/pair), with built-in powered subwoofer, is probably the company's most ambitious product.
Today, Cambridge SoundWorks manufactures more than 60 products, including radios, multimedia speakers, and mini home-theater surround-speaker systems. Kloss later jumped back in with the Model 88, which costs about half of what the Bose Wave costs, and, with its built-in powered subwoofer, sounds superior to many listeners (though the Bose looks better). When I ran into Kloss at a taping for The Learning Channel's History of High Fidelity special, in which we both appeared, he told me that he regretted abandoning high-performance radio because it left the market wide open for marketing genius Amar Bose. Cambridge SoundWorks, established by Kloss in 1988 and later sold to Creative Technology Ltd., began as a direct marketer of innovative, inexpensive, overachieving radios and powered multimedia speaker systems. The late electronics wizard Henry Kloss, founder of Advent and co-founder of Acoustic Research and KLH, devised the concept of the high-performance compact radio back in the 1960s, and he invented timeless products to back up that innovative idea: His classic KLH Model 8 tabletop radio is still sought after, still sounds great, and fetches $500 and up on Internet auction sites.
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