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el Tormé. Mel
Friggin' Tormé.
Are you kidding
me? Sitting in
my den, I'm not
only listening to
a guy that's too square for even
my septuagenarian parents, I'm
mesmerized by him. The Velvet
Fog is crooning, and I'm swoon-
ing. I have no idea what he's
singing, but the tone is tolerable
enough. The thing is, it's not the
song that ensnares me, it's the
presence, vibrancy, and vitality
of the music. Mel Friggin' Tormé
is actually in my den, putting on
a command performance.
"I'm mesmerized
... a command
performance"
At least that's the way
it seems as I listen to a pair of
Definitive Technology's flagship
Mythos ST SuperTower loud-
speakers. The odds that I'd ever
choose to sample the speakers
by listening to old Foggy are
about a trillion to one—or
around the same odds as
Congress repealing the 22
Amendment so that George
DoubleU can run for a third
term. The CD is courtesy of
Definitive president and co-
founder Sandy Gross, who is
slouched in my La-Z-Boy,
smirking as I shake my head
incredulously and gush about
his speakers.
Accompanying Gross on this
speaker demo is Paul DiComo,
vice president of marketing. He
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"The Mythos ST
SuperTowers
astound us by
reproducing
anything we
throw at them
with incredible
accuracy"
chuckles as I mumble some-
thing about my initial impres-
sions of the Mythos STs and my
newfound appreciation
Tormé. That's when my wife
arrives home and joins us.
Ronda generally couldn't care
less about great audio—most of
her listening takes place at work
through earbuds or cheap
amplified speakers connected to
her MP3 player—but she
begrudgingly takes a seat on the
couch. I introduce her to Mel.
A few minutes later, she's
saying that it sounds like he's
actually in the room with us,
performing live, but that the
room seems two or three times
as large as its 13-by-18-foot
dimensions. Ronda says it
nd sounds like the Velvet Fog is
"perfectly
matched timbre
and flawless
imaging"
rolling in from about 25 feet
away, although she is sitting
about 8 feet from the speakers. I
explain that her impression is
created by the Mythos STs'
of
transparency and the grandiose
soundstage they present. Then
she notices the speakers' spec-
tacular imaging. "It sounds like
the singer is over there, the
trumpet is there, and the piano
is over in that corner. It's soooo
cool!"
Hmmm Mel Tormé. Cool?
Mel who? she asks. Mel Tormé
that's who you're listening to.
Never hear of him, she says. So
I play some stuff with which she
is familiar: Enya's Paint the Sky
with Stars, UB40's Promises and
Lies, and The Beatles' Love from
the Cirque du Soleil show, along
with a few other select tracks.