Definitive Technology Mythos Gem Supplementary Manual

from the
test bench
Definitive Technology
Mythos Gem Speaker System
"it's hard to imagine another home theater speaker package
that can offer as much bang — or bling — for the buck."
BY DARRYL WILKINSON
Flat-panel TVs — both plasma
and LCD—are wall candy. I've never
heard anyone say, "I'm going to buy a
plasma TV because the picture looks
so much better then what you get from
a (fill in your favorite display technol-
ogy acronym here) projection TV."
Nope. People buy flat-panel TVs for
one or more of three reasons: they're
thin; they're cool; and, boy, do they
make your friends RGB with envy.
Half a millennium ago, I'm sure that
people who could afford it covered
So little, yet so big.
knee in subservience to the great, glow-
ing flat-panel on the wall. (Talk about
must-see TV...) And I blame AM talk
radio for convincing people that the
idea of really good audio cohabitating
with nice video is just another wacko
liberal concept that will undermine this
country. (Yeah, I have issues.)
"Get this mini Mythos
system, let your
friends ogle its great
looks, and then fall
under its sonic spell."
their walls with the Therein lies my fondness for Defin-
finest tapestries for itive Technology's Mythos Series
exactly the same speakers. With their sleek, slender
reasons. Is it any shape, they're like the speaker equiv-
wonder then that alent of a secret agent stealthily slip-
panel after panel ping into uptight, frou-frou living
goes into homes with rooms everywhere. Once wired and
teeny, tiny, embar- in place, they disperse their subversive
rassingly little home- propaganda in the form of truly spec-
theater-in-a-grocery-
"my subwoofer
bag speakers next to
can kick your
them — or simply
with no speakers at
subwoofer's butt ...
all? I blame the
amazingly low
salespeople (or lack
but very musical
thereof). I blame the
bass output ..."
imperialistic, aggres-
sive TV manufactur-
ers who would have tacular audio; and two by two, ears
us all on bended around the world finally come to their
senses and rally behind our cause. In
my opinion, Mythos speakers are a
marvelous twofer: You get great sound
and great looks, regardless of what
reason brought them through the door.
The Mythos Ethos
Until recently, the Mythos lineup
was missing a small, bookshelf-ish
speaker, if for nothing else than to use
a baby surround speaker. Now, the
Mythos Gem comes along, a modest-
size speaker with its Mythos pedigree
apparent in its boyishly good alu-
minum looks. Although I've heard